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1. Climate Change, Longevity Overfishing and Precautious Management of the Area 88 Toothfish Fishery

   (Dissostichus mawsoni) fishery in Area 88 indicates that less-than-full precaution is being exercised in the ... of this species to climate-related factors; and 3) an increase in that sensitivity owing to the ... . not all at once. Based on information in the literature not available when the current CCAMLR Area 88 ... Antarctic toothfish management was formulated, we discuss why such a strategy is unlikely to result in a ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-09/07 : Author(s): D. Ainley (USA), M. Massaro, G. Ballard (New Zealand) and J.T. Eastman (USA)

2. The diet of the Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella at Harmony Point, Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands

   coincides well with the observed in 1996/97, but in 1995/96 krill was the most important prey also by mass ... (50.2%). The importance of the remaining taxa represented in the samples (octopods, hyperiids and ... nicholsi and Electrona antarctica the main prey. These two species also predominated in 1996/97, whereas ... Cryodraco antarcticus and Gobionotothen gibberifrons did in 1995/96. The importance of the Myctophiids as ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/60 : Author(s): Carlini, A., Baroni, A., Casaux, R.

3. Dates of spawning of Antarctic euphausiids

   the dates of the beginning, termination and periods of high and the most intension of spawning. In the ... waters of different origin and on different latitudes euphausiids begin to spawn in a usual succession ... . The spawning of each species begins later in waters of high-latitude origin. The same connection ... exists for the period of the most intensive spawning. The termination of spawning in the waters of high ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/24 : Author(s): Delegation of USSR

4. Modelling the circumpolar distribution of Antarctic toothfish using correlative species distribution modelling methods

   environmental covariates that could be included in these models are presented for discussion and feedback, as ... that may be included in future work. Methods for dealing with issues such as sampling bias in model ... fitting, extrapolation in model predictions and spatial sorting bias in model evaluation are also ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/65 : Author(s): L.M. Robinson, K. Reid (Secretariat)

5. Autoliners and seabird by-catch: do line setters increase the sink rate of integrated weight longlines?

   vessels in the Kerguelen and Crozet Islands Patagonian toothfish fisheries to deter seabirds, ostensibly ... by expediting gear sink rates. A trial was conducted in the Ross Sea in 2007 to determine the ... effectiveness of line setters in increasing sink rates of IW longlines. Time-depth recorders were deployed along ... longlines set with and without a line setter were identical, including in the first few metres of the water ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/13 : Author(s): G. Robertson (Australia), J. Williamson, M. McNeill (New Zealand), S. Candy (Australia) and N. Smith (New Zealand)

6. ANALYSIS OF ICE-FISH (CHAMPSOCEPHALUS GUNNARI) SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION FOR OPTIMIZATION OF THE BOTTOM TRAWL SURVEY SAMPLING

   Abstract:  Acoustic and trawl samples obtained in the near-bottom layers covered by bottom trawl ... surveys in the South Georgia area are analyzed. The high heterogeneity of horizontal and vertical fish ... distribution in the near-bottom layers within the surveyed area is shown. Influence of this fish distribution ... Russian and UK bottom surveys carried out in the South Georgia area during season’s 2000 and 2002, it is ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-09/20 : Author(s): S.M. Kasatkina (Russia)

7. Performance of an acoustic sonde design

   is widely recognized. At a U.S. GLOBEC workshop in 1991, one of the considered problems was measuring ... macrozooplankton and micronekton. It was concluded that in order to survey animals in the size range 0.5-5 cm, it ... would be expedient to use at least three and perhaps as many as 8-10 frequencies in the range 38-420 kHz ... heat generation in ceramic elements, isotropic ambient noise, and detection threshold of 20 dB. Target ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/09 : Author(s): Foote, K.G.

8. ANALYSIS OF ROSS SEA TAGGING AND RECAPTURE RATES

   year and recapture year for tags released and recaptured in the same SSRUs on the slope of 88.1 was ... (caught), all in numbers. 2. The overall size of the dataset was 734 combinations of release year ... has not been consistent enough between nations to allow the analysis to be definitive. In many cases ... , release or recapture nation effects were not significant. In the cases where significant differences ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-08/07 : Author(s): D.J. Agnew (UK)

9. Composition and vertical distribution of the benthopelagic ichthyofauna of the southern part of the Kerguelen ridge

   Abstract:  AS many as 18 species of benthopelagic fishes belonging to 12 families were caught in ... trawls during the integrated surveys in December 1977 and in January 1978 on Elan Bank consisting of two ... found both species inhabiting exclusively in sub-Antarctic and Antarctic waters (endemies) and those ... of fish species, their numbers, however, being the smallest in those particular depths. Sub-Antarctic ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/13 : Author(s): Piotrovsky, A.S.

10. Draft revised Management Plan for ASMA No. 1: Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands

    described in ATCM Decision 9 (2005). In particular the advice of CCAMLR is requested on the proposal that in ... order to ensure that any commercial harvesting is carried out in a  manner that is consistent with the ... shall be submitted to CCAMLR for its consideration and that  commercial harvesting specified in such a ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/05 : Author(s): J. Leal Madruga (Submitted by Brazil on behalf of the ASMA No. 1 Management Group – Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Poland)

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