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1. Diet variability and reproductive performance of macaroni penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus) at Bird Island, South Georgia

   (Euphausia superba) was the main prey in 17 out of 22 years. Amphipods (Themisto gaudichaudii) were the main ... prey in 1994 and 2009, fish in 2004, and euphausiids other than E. superba (Thysanoessa spp. and E ... . frigida) in 2000. There was no clearly dominant prey group in 1999. The five-year average proportion of E ... frequency occurrence of T. gaudichaudii both increased with a decreasing proportion of E. superba in the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/17 : Author(s): C.M. Waluda, S.L. Hill, H.J. Peat and P.N. Trathan (United Kingdom)

2. Influence of the quality and quantity of data from a multi-year tagging program on bias and precision of biomass estimates from an integrated stock assessment – update

   program, in particular the effects of the size (tag size-overlap) and numbers of tagged fish, the duration ... of the tagging program, the type of auxiliary data used in the assessment, and the catch history ... emerged within this overall trend. The results show that in the early stages of the tagging program, a ... with a low tag size-overlap, even with large numbers, is likely to result in overestimates of biomass ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/18 : Author(s): P.E. Ziegler (Australia)

3. Domain 1 Marine Protected Area Preliminary Proposal PART A-1: Priority Areas for Conservation

   led by Argentina and Chile. The process has resulted in the compilation, analysis, integration and ... approach in all stages of the decision making process. In particular, this paper describes the ... identification of Priority Areas for Conservation (PAC) in Domain 1- as introduced during the last EMM meeting ... in the MPA planning process and future management, Domain 1 was thought in terms of three ecoregions ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/17 : Author(s): Delegations of Argentina and Chile

4. Marine debris: a persistent and emerging threat to antarctic ecosystems

   Abstract:  CCAMLR has had success in tackling marine debris from local sources in the Southern ... marine debris, particularly in pelagic areas, is limited. This is particularly concerning, as recent ... evidence suggests that microplastic concentrations in the Southern Ocean are higher than previously thought ... , particularly microplastics, in Antarctic ecosystems is understudied. Combatting the problem of microplastics in ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/BG/29 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC

5. A comparison of two different methods to age mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) at South Georgia

   analysis have been compared in Champsocephalus gunnari using material collected around South Georgia during ... four Russian surveys in 1988, 1990, 2000 and 2002. Considerable differences in age estimates between ... held in Kaliningrad in 2005 and the exploration of methods in addition to CMIX are made to reconcile ... some of these differences in the future. Author(s):  P. Gasyukov (Russia), K.-H. Kock (Germany) and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/70 : Author(s): P. Gasyukov (Russia), K.-H. Kock (Germany) and Zh.A. Frolkina (Russia)

6. Has Notothenia rossii around Elephant Island and the lower South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1) recovered from exploitation some 30 years ago?

   fishing in the Southern Ocean. The species has been heavily fished around South Georgia and Iles Kerguelen ... in the first half of the 1970’s and at Elephant Island in 1979/80. The closure of the fishery for ... Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)’ adopted in 1985. Fish biomass within a CCAMLR Subarea or ... simultaneously in the same survey.  Surveys are conducted under the assumption that the target fish species are ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/19 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock (Germany) and C.D. Jones (USA)

7. Congruent, decreasing trends of Gentoo Penguins and Crozet Shags at sub-Antarctic Marion Island suggest food limitation through common environmental forcing

   ] melanogenis breeding annually at Marion Island, one of South Africa’s Prince Edward Islands in the south-west ... between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, exhibited a partial recovery in the late-2000s and then decreased ... to their lowest recorded levels in 2012/13. In both instances, the partial recoveries in the late ... Shags are demersal feeders in inshore waters around Marion Island and there is considerable overlap in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/P09 Rev. 1 : Author(s): R.J.M. Crawford, B.M. Dyer, L. Upfold and A.B. Makhado

8. The use of Port State measures to improve fisheries compliance at the international levelIssues and instruments – the CCAMLR case

   approaches to port State control in order to avoid the development of “ports of convenience” and improve ... , universally applicable instruments is also gaining momentum. In any case, there is a pressing need to develop ... ) fishing. CCAMLR is generally regarded as a good regional model in the area of port State control. Hence ... , CCAMLR Members should draw on their experience in port State measures, particularly on toothfish landings ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXV/BG/29 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC

9. Review of some assumptions for modelling Patagonian toothfish dynamics at CCAMLR Subarea 48.3

   Patagonian toothfish stock in CCAMLR Subarea 48.3 were available to the Working Group: CASAL and ASPM (WG-FSA ... -05/16; WG-FSA-05/73). Although the underlying basic age-structure population dynamics models in both ... cases were similar, there were considerable differences in assumptions and implementations of the two ... methods. In this paper, we discuss the related effects considering constant h parameter and deterministic ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-06/13 : Author(s): A. Aubone, P.A. Martínez and O.C. Wöhler (Argentina)

10. Proposal of the Russian Federation to open Subarea 88.3 for exploratory fishery of Dissostichus spp.

    Abstract:  In 2011 and 2012 in Subarea 88.3 research fishing for toothfish has been conducted by ... Russia. In 2011 fishing was carried out by Russian longliner “Sparta” out and in 2012 it was longliner ... . Collected in research fishing data contributes to the achievement of the main objectives of research for the ... of hypotheses about the ratio of fish in the area and the total stock as well as studying of ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/12 : Author(s): Delegation of the Russian Federation

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