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1. FISHING EQUIPMENT, MARINE DEBRIS AND HYDROCARBON SOILING ASSOCIATED WITH SEABIRDS AT BIRD ISLAND, SOUTH GEORGIA, 2007/2008

   2008. It is the fifteenth such annual report. As in previous years, the majority of items (84%) of ... marine debris and fishing gear (mostly hooks and lines from longline fisheries) were found in association ... with wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans, and very few in association with grey-headed Thalassarche ... was observed in the total number of items encountered (n=116) compared with the previous season. Two ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/25 : Author(s): D. Fox (UK)

2. Analisis de los censos de Arctocephalus gazella efectuados en el sitio de especial interes cientifico no. 32, Isla Livingston, Antarctica

   in Viña del Mar (Chile) in August 1992, the information about four complete censuses on the Antarctic ... results show that the population size of this species, in the study area increased during 26 years, form ... 50 animals counted in January 1966 to 10768 individuals registered in January 1992. It is recommended ... that future censuses carry out in the Cape Shirreff also include the breeding colonies of San Telmo ...

   Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-93/24 : Author(s): A. Aquayo L. and D. Torres N. (Chile)

3. A proposal to enhance and clarify CCAMLR’s Catch Documentation Scheme

   harvest through final import for consumption.  The move, in 2010, to a fully electronic Catch ... Documentation Scheme (e-CDS) has improved the tracking of toothfish moving in trade and decreased the potential ... CCAMLR by participating in the CDS, to ensure that the toothfish entering their markets were harvested in ... efficient product traceability.  However, there are some improvements that could be made in order to clarify ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXI/38 : Author(s): Delegation of the USA

4. Beach debris survey – Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia, 2005/06

   , nylon line was absent from Bird Island, an encouraging result after the peak of 546 pieces in 1995/96 ... . However plastic packaging bands are still regularly recovered. In the reporting period 16 pieces were ... found, more than in any of the previous 9 years, suggesting that the ban on their use aboard fishing ... vessels brought into force by CCAMLR in 1995/96 has yet to prove entirely effective. Sixty-nine pieces of ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVI/BG/16 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

5. The diet of Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, at King George Island, during the summer–autumn period

   , krill and fish were the most frequent prey, occurring in an average of 97% and 69% of samples (n=128 ... fish species associated with krill swarms. A seasonal change observed in the relative proportions of ... the different fish prey taxa would indicate that fur seals spent more time foraging over the shelf in ... summer and off shelf in autumn. During the study period commercial fishing in the area was not based upon ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/4 : Author(s): G.A. Daneri, A.R. Carlini, C.M. Hernandez and A. Harrington (Argentina)

6. Spectra analysis of Drake Passage Oscillation Index (DPOI) from 1952 to 2003, Antarctica

   Abstract:  An assessment of the environmental processes influencing variability in the recruitment ... and density of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba DANA) is important as variability in krill stocks ... affects the Antarctic marine ecosystem as a whole. Naganobu et al. (1999) had assessed variability in ... , Argentina, and Base Esperanza, at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, sea ice cover and chlorophyll-a in the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/46 : Author(s): M. Naganobu and K. Kutsuwada (Japan)

7. Proposed movement of boundary between Subareas 88.1 and 88.2

   Subarea 88.1 and Statistical Subarea 88.2 in order to harmonise with the exploratory fisheries for ... Dissostichus mawsoni in those subareas and with other conservation measures in force. The proposal would move ... complexity that currently adds an administrative burden on Members and the Secretariat in respect of fishery ... these would have no material impact on the operation of fisheries in these areas. The Secretariat ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVII/22 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

8. The food and feeding ecology of the white-chinned petrel Procellaria aequinoctialis at South Georgia

   the chick-rearing period in 1986 by quantitative analysis (by weight, frequency of occurrence and ... ; fish and squid occurred In 67% and 35% of samples and formed 33% and 19% of the diet by weight ... , respectively. Decapods, amphipods and salps occurred in a few samples. The fish were mainly lanternfish ... (Myctophidae) of 8 species (chiefly in the genera Electrona and Gymnoscopelus), forming 80% by numbers and 52 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-94/14 : Author(s): J.P. Croxall, A.J. Hall, H.J. Hill, A.W. North and P.G. Rodhouse (United Kingdom)

9. OPTIONS FOR USING UNREPLICATED ECOSYSTEM MONITORING DATA TO DETECT IMPACTS

   . Furthermore, CEMP data cannot be used in a standard environmental impact assessment framework as they lack ... control sites. Identifying how these data could be used in an ecosystem management strategy is therefore ... and a schedule of tactical interventions in response to these impacts (e.g. restrictions on fishing ... either assess the expected probability of an observed value in an unimpacted system, or they assess the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/26 : Author(s): S. Hill, J. Forcada, P. Trathan and C. Waluda (United Kingdom)

10. Estimation of natural mortality using catch-at-age and aged mark-recapture data: a simulation study comparing estimation for a model based on the Baranov equations versus a new mortality equation

    other model parameters in integrated assessments via CASAL for the Heard and McDonald Islands (HIMI ... -recapture data were generated for 12 years of fishing. Two alternative estimation models were programmed in ... (ODE) for within-year population dynamics. The difference in the models derives from differences in ... likelihood components avoiding the difficultly in appropriately weighting separate components. Also, for a ...

    Meeting Document : WG-SAM-10/11 Rev. 1 : Author(s): S.G. Candy (Australia)

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