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1. Casal2: New Zealand’s integrated population modelling tool

   confidence that the code base was validated. Design decisions taken at an early stage in CASAL’sdevelopment ... CASAL and to control its own destiny over progress in new stock assessment techniques, such aseasy use ... in management strategy evaluations. We have replicated many CASAL assessments successfullyand so will ... release the first version of Casal2 in 2016 as an open source package under the GPL-2.0 licence. A pre ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-18/P01 : Author(s): I. Doonan, K. Large, A. Dunn, S. Rasmussen, C. Marsh and S. Mormede

2. Considerations about managing the krill fishery at small spatial and temporal scales

   Abstract:  We discuss a number of ecological issues in relation to CCAMLR’s aspiration for ... managing the krill fishery at small temporal and spatial scales. We highlight that the devil is in the ... the need for coupled research to ensure fishery displacement does not become too concentrated in other ... that krill demand from a range of predators in near-shore coastal habitats may only be met through ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-2019/22 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan, V. Warwick-Evans and E. Young

3. Report on attendance at the Seventh Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Madrid Protocol

   Abstract:  This report outlines the participation of the SC-CAMLR Chair in the Seventh Meeting of ... prepared a suggested revised text for consideration by the ATCM, enclosing in square brackets those ... progress of the Antarctic Site Inventory to monitor and assess visitor sites in the Antarctic Peninsula ... . The ASI has collected biological data and site-descriptive information in the Antarctic Peninsula ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXIII/BG/07 : Author(s): Chair of the CCAMLR Scientific Committee

4. Conserving surface-nesting seabirds at the Prince Edward Islands: the roles of research, monitoring and legislation

   of albatrosses and giant petrels in longline fisheries, and environmental change influencing ... in terms of planned new legislation in South Africa and then developing management plans for them ... International Importance in recognition of their importance to seabirds, with 13 of the 16 species exceeding the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/14 : Author(s): R.J.M. Crawford and J. Cooper (South Africa)

5. Maximum entropy reconstruction of stock distribution and inference of stock density from line-transect acoustic survey data

   allows the most efficient possible use of known data in the inference process. The method takes explicit ... account of spatial correlation in the observed data and seeks to reconstruct a distribution of density ... approximately 1600 observed data. We inferred krill density for all 32000 0.5 x 0.5 km cells in the area. The ... method is computationally demanding but appears to work well, even in cases when the distribution of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/35 : Author(s): A.S. Brierley, S.F. Gull and M.H. Wafy (United Kingdom)

6. Estimates of global krill abundance based on recent acoustic density measurements and their implications for the calculation of precautionary catch limits and the designation of management areas

   between 64 and 137 million tonnes- at the low end of values that have been suggested in the past. The ... the biomass. Additionally, the current precautionary catch limits in the South Atlantic are set using ... the new survey of the South Atlantic is likely to result in an effective biomass which is greater than ... that used in the past. The seasonal and local consequences of elevated catch limits will have to be ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/22 : Author(s): S. Nicol, A. Constable and T. Pauly (Australia)

7. Distributions and predator-prey interactions of macaroni penguins, Antarctic fur seals, and Antarctic krill near Bird Island, South Georgia

   chrysolophus, Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella, and their zooplankton prey, in particular Antarctic ... hill Euphausia superba, near Bird Island, South Georgia, South Atlantic Ocean, in February 1986 ... between the distributions of predators and their prey with respect to the abundance of krill in the water ... macaroni penguins were concentrating their foraging for krill in the vicinity of the shelf-break. Author(s ...

   Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-93/12 : Author(s): G.L. Hunt, Jr (USA), D. Heinemann (USA) and I. Everson (United Kingdom)

8. Southern Ocean fishing vessel management

   Members to contribute to expanded cooperation between the IMO and the Antarctic Treaty System in areas of ... relevance to fishing vessels including by: Engaging fully in the negotiations at the IMO to ensure that any ... recommendatory or mandatory provisions adopted for non-SOLAS vessels are “fit for purpose” in the Antarctic Area ... technical sub-committees to facilitate CCAMLR’s engagement in developing guidelines and mandatory measures ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-38/BG/47 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC

9. Regulation of the krill fishery within the CCAMLR area

   differently. That is to say, the monitoring of fishing activities in the krill fishery in the CCAMLR Area can ... be seen to differ from that implemented in other fisheries. This situation could be affecting the ... that the Commission consider an increase in observer coverage that would be implemented in stages over ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXV/26 : Author(s): Delegación de Chile

10. CEMP INDICES: 2008 UPDATE

    indicator species collected by standard methods in the three Integrated Study Regions of the Convention Area ... anomalies in these data. This report covers predator indices only. Data were submitted by 7 Members for 10 ... seasons are being undertaken. There has been a general decline in the number of parameters submitted from ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/04 : Author(s): Secretariat

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