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1. Report on bottom fisheries and vulnerable marine ecosystems: draft template and workplan

   Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems to WG-EMM and WG-FSA in 2010. This paper provides a draft template, including ... the workplan and discussion. It has been compiled by the Subgroup for consideration at WG-EMM in 2010 ... of VMEs, resulting in the following structure to replicate that approach: (i) Details of Bottom ... Scientific Committee and its working groups have been embedded within this structure in order to give them a ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/15 : Author(s): WG-FSA Subgroup on VMEs

2. The orderly development of the krill fishery

   in Statistical Division 58.4.2 Australia noted that while the scientific data supported an increase ... , such a large increase required the inclusion of other elements in the conservation measure to ... considers critical to the orderly and precautionary development of the krill fishery. In summary Australia ... recommends that: o Krill stock surveys be undertaken in areas with no precautionary catch limits in order to ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVI/30 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia

3. A review of methodologies aimed at avoiding and/or mitigating incidental catch of protected seabirds.

   fisheries interactions have been released in a variety of local, national and international media. Recent ... published reviews in the field of bycatch mitigation have typically had a species or fishing method focus ... interactions with fishing gear in New Zealand fisheries and fisheries that operate using similar methodologies ... for the fisheries management made, and areas for further research in New Zealand identified. Factors ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/P8 : Author(s): Bull, L.

4. Developing integrated assessments for Dissostichus eleginoides based on the CCAMLR precautionary approach

   Abstract:  This paper describes a possible method for implementing the precautionary approach in ... Dissostichus eleginoides in Division 58.5.2. CASAL and GYM are key elements in the implementation described in ... this paper but the methodology is laid out in such a way that alternative software solutions could be ... used in either or both of their places. The framework for this procedure has four main components. The ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-05/16 : Author(s): I. Ball and A.J. Constable (Australia)

5. Report to CCAMLR-XXIX on the implementation of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

   revealed that the most effective measures to reduce incidental take of seabirds in pelagic longline ... ;- setting at night; and- actively deterring birds from baited hooks by means of bird scaring lines, in ... combination with appropriate line weighting. The SBWG also reviewed progress in bycatch mitigation research ... take of seabirds in trawl fisheries is the effective management of offal discharge and fish discards ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXIX/BG/18 : Author(s): ACAP Secretariat

6. Estimation of natural mortality for the Patagonian toothfish at Heard and McDonald Islands using catch-at-age and aged mark-recapture data from the main trawl ground

   other model parameters in integrated assessments via CASAL for the Heard and McDonald Islands (HIMI ... to the main trawl ground in which the longest time series of catches and the great majority of ... years 1998 to 2008. A large proportion of the recaptures of fish released in this fishery were aged and ... programmed in R, based on alternative ordinary differential equations (ODE) for within-year population ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/41 : Author(s): S. Candy, D. Welsford, T. Lamb, J. Verdouw and J. Hutchins (Australia)

7. Potential climate change effects on the habitat of Antarctic krill

   resource and a major prey item for many fish, birds and mammals in the Southern Ocean. The fishery and the ... sector into two zones: A band around the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in which habitat quality is ... in growth habitat within the range of predators, such as Antarctic fur seals, foraging from breeding ... in summer chlorophyll concentration could have a more significant effect on Antarctic krill habitat ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/20 : Author(s): S.L. Hill, T. Phillips and A. Atkinson (United Kingdom)

8. Marine debris and entanglements at Bird Island and King Edward Point, South Georgia, Signy Island, South Orkneys and Goudier Island, Antarctic Peninsula 2013–2014

   Point and zero at Signy Island and Goudier Island. In total, 88 items of marine debris were found in ... association with seabird colonies at Bird Island, most commonly in association with wandering albatrosses (40 ... highest ever recorded in the 24 years of summer surveys and fourth highest ever recorded in 23 years of ... winter surveys at Bird Island. In contrast, the occurrence of beached marine debris at Signy Island was ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXIII/BG/31 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

9. UAV for monitoring environmental changes on King George Island (South Shetland Islands) Antarctica: preliminary study on wildlife disturbance

   Abstract:  The importance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in remote sensing is rapidly growing ... . However, knowledge about their potential impact on wildlife is scant, especially in the Antarctic, where ... they are a new tool used in ecological research and monitoring.    In this preliminary study we ... investigate potential effects of wildlife disturbance by UAVs. In austral summer 2014-2015 UAV overflights ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/50 : Author(s): A. Kidawa, M. Korczak-Abshire, A. Zmarz, R. Storvold, M. Rodzewicz, K. Chwedorzewska, S-R. Karlsen and A. Znój (Poland)

10. Performance metrics to index the spatial coverage of mark-recapture data

    interpreting the biomass estimated from mark recapture data. In 2015, the Scientific Committee identified that ... measures of spatial overlap and potential bias in the development of tag-based biomass estimates are an ... measure of the potential bias in the biomass estimate calculated from non-homogenous spatial mark ... area, SSRUs 88.2H to illustrate its use. We found that the median tag spatial overlap statistic in 2012 ...

    Meeting Document : WG-SAM-16/13 : Author(s): C. Marsh, A. Dunn and S. Mormede

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