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1. CCAMLR’s next steps to stop IUU fishing

   Abstract:  Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing continues to be a problem in the ... Convention Area, undermining the intrinsic values of CCAMLR and of the Antarctic Treaty. In spite of the ... CCAMLR Members can take individually and collectively to eliminate IUU fishing in the CCAMLR Area. At ... measures currently in force. In order to achieve this goal, CCAMLR Members should allocate special funds ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/BG/22 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC

2. Krill fishery report: 2013 update

   Abstract:  In 2011/12, 12 vessels from five Members fished for krill in Area 48 and the total ... largest catch of krill by small-scale management unit was taken in ‘South Georgia East’ in Subarea 48.3 ... , Norway and Ukraine have fished for krill in Area 48. The total catch reported to the end of May 2013 was ... catch in Subarea 48.1 was 146474 t (94% of catch limit 155000 t) and that subarea was closed on 14 June ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/37 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Secretariat

3. Investigation of the sensitivity of the Ross Sea toothfish assessment to withholding subsets of the available data

   Abstract:  Antarctic and Patagonian toothfish stocks in the Antarctic have been assessed within ... time as more years’ data becomes available. The 2009 stock assessment of Antarctic toothfish in the ... Ross Sea region was used as the working model. The 2009 stock assessment of Antarctic toothfish in ... on a smaller and shorter data set. In both instances the ‘base case’ model was used, i.e., the models ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-11/17 : Author(s): S. Mormede (New Zealand)

4. Defining smaller management areas within CCAMLR

   and highlights a work program in this development. It provides the theoretical foundation for ... but should be sufficiently self-contained such that fishing in that unit does not inadvertently affect ... predators being monitored in other units. Harvesting units are defined and a number of additional divisions ... species, notably krill, in other harvesting units. The manner in which predator units can be used to help ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/52 : Author(s): A.J. Constable and S. Nicol (Australia)

5. A method for spreading the risk of localised effects of catches of Antarctic krill up to the trigger level, during the development of stage 2 of feedback management

   Abstract:  Conservation Measure 51-07 provides an interim distribution of the trigger level in the ... fishery for Euphausia superba in Statistical Subareas 48.1, 48.2, 48.3 and 48.4.  It was established ... because the Commission, in the preambular paragraphs to that measure, recognised that localised catches up ... disproportionately affected by fishing activity”.   CM 51-07 is to be “ reviewed in 2016 with the intent of ensuring ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/69 : Author(s): A.J. Constable, S. Kawaguchi and M. Sumner

6. Population of macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus at Marion Island, 1994/95 to 2002/03, with information on breeding and diet

   from about 405 000 pairs in 1983/84 and 434 000 pairs in 1994/95 to about 356 000 pairs in 2002/03. Two ... demonstration of a significant decrease in the overall population. Numbers of occupied nests at other colonies ... decreased from 79 000 in 1994/95 to 31 000 in 2002/03. At three small colonies there was a significant ... . However, during this period there was a significant increase in reproductive success with time. In the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/15 : Author(s): R.J.M. Crawford, J. Cooper and B.M. Dyer (South Africa)

7. The biology and ecology of mackerel icefish, Champsocephalus gunnari – an Antarctic fish species that lack haemoglobin

   , its distribution ranges from the Scotia Arc region, namely South Georgia, in the Atlantic Ocean sector ... to the Kerguelen-Heard Plateau in the Indian Ocean sector. Mackerel icefish have been heavily ... exploited since the beginning of the 1970's with reported annual catches exceeding 50- 100 000 tomes in ... characteristics in common, such as feeding mode and food, early life history, and growth in the first years of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/24 : Author(s): Everson, I., Kock, K.-H.

8. Beach litter survey Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 1993/94

   summers. Debris was cleared from three study beaches, Foca Cove, Cummings Cove and Starfish Cove, in ... from any scientific research stations in the South Orkney Islands. The beach litter surveys carried out ... in 1990/91, 1991/92 and 1992/93 showed a drop in both the weight of debris and the total number of ... kg in 1993/94 compared to 4.45 kg in 1992/93, and the number of items recovered increased to 118 ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XIII/BG/11 : Author(s): Delegation of United Kingdom

9. Exploratory longline fishing around the Kerguelen Islands (Division 58.5.1). Description of the fishing effort; catchability and target size of Dissostichus eleginoides

   about 2 400 to 3 600 straight hooks, which are from 61 to 75 mm in length. The bait used is either ... fact that fish become unhooked along the side of the ship, which leads to a real catchability value in ... eleginoides confirm that fish caught are large, their average length being greater than that in catches made ... previously by trawlers in the same area. This average length is comparable for the two successive fishing ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-92/31 Rev. 1 : Author(s): G. Duhamel (France)

10. New Zealand Antarctic research programme

    reconnaissance and photography are used in the Ross Sea sector of Antarctica to determine where Adelie penguins ... surviving chicks in mid-January (when weight and measurements of samples of chicks at Capes Royds and ... world population. Some rookeries are photographed in all, or most, of the seasons to study the pattern ... of natural population fluctuations. Populations at nearly all rookeries have increased markedly in ...

    Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-92/24 : Author(s): P.R. Wilson (New Zealand)

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