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1. Report on attendance at the Fourth Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection Under the Madrid Protocol

   Abstract:  This report outlines the participation of the SC-CAMLR Chair in the Fourth Meeting of ... CEP reported on progress to find appropriate criteria for and a mechanism to ensure consistency in ... procedures to avoid introduction of diseases in the Antarctic. It noted that the risk that human activities ... in Antarctica might introduce diseases was currently assessed to be very low; (3) The CCAMLR SC Chair ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XX/BG/03 : Author(s): Chair of the CCAMLR Scientific Committee

2. DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF ANTARCTIC KRILL (EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA) EXPLAIN THE SPATIAL SEGREGATION OF BALEEN WHALES (MYSTICETI) AROUND THE SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS, ANTARCTICA

   Peninsula) and test whether whales exhibit interspecific differences in their exploitation of krill ... sampled over five years resulting in the most comprehensive linked whale-krill study in the SW Atlantic ... (Megaptera novaengliae) show strong spatial associations with small juvenile krill in Bransfield Strait ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/33 : Author(s): J.A. Santora, C.S. Reiss, V.J. Loeb and R.R. Veit (USA)

3. BEACH DEBRIS SURVEY – MAIN BAY, BIRD ISLAND, SOUTH GEORGIA 2006/2007

   collected. This represents a reduction by 33% on the 544 items recorded in 2005/06 and a decrease in mass of ... years in which no fisheries related debris was observed, one nylon fishing line and one snood were found ... on the survey beach during the summer, plus another snood in winter (August). Both snoods were ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/24 : Author(s): F. Le Bouard (UK)

4. Analysis of marine debris found at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, South Shetlands, Antarctica

   Abstract:  In the course of demographic studies of Arctocephalus gazella conducted at Cape ... beaches was collected and transported to Santiago for analysis. The analysis of 1 346 objects collected in ... that this debris comes from different fishing areas (FAO Areas 48, 58 and 88), including areas in the ... South Atlantic, and it is estimated that a considerable amount of marine debris remains adrift in the ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XI/BG/07 : Author(s): Delegation of Chile

5. Antarctic ecosystem management

   in accordance with the objectives and requirements of Article II of the Convention for the ... demographic status in sub-systems, and (c) conducting perturbation experiments in certain of these sub-systems ... be employed to monitor these stocks. In particular, early attempts should be made to model fishing ...

   Meeting Document : WG-DCH-84/03 : Author(s): D.S. Butterworth (South Africa)

6. A comparison of gear selectivity among three fishing gears for Antarctic krill with notes on the demographic patterns and productivity of Antarctic krill during summer 2014

   showed that krill collected in Bransfield Strait and Elephant Island areas of the South Shetlands in ... summer 2014 were about 42 mm in length (3yrs old), and few small (<25mm) krill (1 year old) were ... captured. The majority of krill were mature and in spawning condition.   Author(s):  C. Reiss (USA) and M ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/37 : Author(s): C. Reiss (USA) and M. Espino Sanchez (Peru)

7. Population trends and reproductive success at a frequently visited penguin colony on the western Antarctic Peninsula

   frequently visited locations, is at the epicenter of a rapid shift in which an Adélie penguin dominated fauna ... with larger trends in this region, the Adélie penguin population decreased by 29% and the gentoo ... Petermann Island. Whereas gentoo penguin reproductive success was lowest in colonies frequently visited by ... visited only occasionally. These results are placed in the context of other studies on reproductive ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/P07 : Author(s): H.J. Lynch, W.F. Fagan and R. Naveen

8. Comparison of equal-area cylindrical and circular piston transducers

   Abstract:  Design of sondes for in situ measurement of zooplankton or other scatterers requires ... patterns with measurement gives confidence in the radiation model, which is used to compute the directivity ... single targets and multiple targets distributed throughout the sampling volume. In every single case, the ... . This is directly attributable to differences in directivity index and curvature loss. Other, pragmatic ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/08 : Author(s): Foote, K.G.

9. Seabird interaction with long-lining operations for Dissostichus eleginoides around South Georgia, April and May 1994

   predominating. Our data suggest that grey-headed albatrosses, whose populations at South Georgia are in serious ... decline, were disproportionately affected in relation to their numbers in the vicinity of the fishing ... vessel; giant petrels also may be disproportionately affected, at least in relation to the size of their ...

   Meeting Document : WG-IMALF-94/15 : Author(s): J.R. Ashford, J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom), P.S. Rubilar and C.A. Moreno (Chile)

10. A sentiment analysis of online content containing Antarctic krill fishing search terms

    terms 12 was analysed to evaluate public perception of the fishery, as a consideration in management 13 ... combination of recent increases in catches and perceived 16 negative environmental impacts of fishing for ... resulted in an ongoing public debate. 18 The tenor of this debate is inevitably guided by access to ... operate in a changing environment as well as a providing a method for using 25 online content sentiment ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/18 : Author(s): J. Barrett, K. Reid and J. Jabour

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