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1. Factors influencing Antarctic krill distribution in the South Shetlands

   Abstract:  The influences of biological and physical factors in the environment upon krill ... (Euphausia superba) distribution were studies in the area north of South Shetland Islands during 1990/91 ... austral summer. Krill showed a distinct offshore-inshore heterogeneities in abundance and maturity stage ... in mid-summer the abundance was low in the oceanic zone (8.5 g/m2), while higher in the slope frontal ...

   Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-93/38 : Author(s): T. Ichii, H. Ishii and M. Naganobu (Japan)

2. Revised research plan for the 2015/16 exploratory longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Subarea 48.6

   began in 2013 in data-poor fisheries. In the present report, the next three-season (2016-18) research ... plan in Subarea 48.6 was revised using the updated CCAMLR C2 and Observer data. The stock sizes for ... Dissostichus mawsoni in block 48.6_2. However, the estimates using the Petersen estimator were two-three times ... larger than those using the CPUE method in the block 48.6_3 and 48.6_4. Predicted numbers of tag ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/16 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan

3. CHINSTRAP PENGUINS: MISUNDERSTOOD AND VULNERABLE MONITORS OF ECOSYSTEM CHANGES IN THE SCOTIA SEA REGION OF ANTARCTICA

   Abstract:  Sea ice plays a critical role in structuring ecosystem dynamics throughout the Scotia ... Sea (SS) region, and variations in ice extent are hypothesized to affect predator populations in this ... area directly. A paradigm guiding recent research in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region of ... the SS, the “sea-ice hypothesis”, suggests that declines in the seasonal extent and duration of sea ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/17 : Author(s): W.Z. Trivelpice, J.T. Hinke, A.K. Miller, C. Reiss, S.G. Trivelpiece and G.M. Watters (USA)

4. Are penguins and seals in competition for Antarctic krill at South Georgia?

   Abstract:  The Antarctic fur seal and macaroni penguin are sympatric top predators that occur in ... consumers of Antarctic krill. In recent years the population of fur seals has increased whereas that of ... and are restricted in their foraging range at least while provisioning their offspring. In this study ... we test the hypothesis that the expanded fur seal population at South Georgia may have resulted in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/22 : Author(s): K.E. Barlow, I.L. Boyd, J.P. Croxall, I.J. Staniland, K. Reid and A.S. Brierley (United Kingdom)

5. AN ASSESSMENT OF ARTIFICIAL BAIT (NORBAIT™) AS A MEANS OF REDUCING THE INCIDENTAL CATCH OF MACROURUS AND OTHER BYCATCH SPECIES IN HIGH LATITUDE TOOTHFISH FISHERIES

   (rattails) and other bycatch species in the toothfish autoline longline fishery. A company vessel carried ... out some initial experimental work in the western Ross Sea (CCAMLR Statistical Subarea 88.1) in 2007 ... Aspiring operating in the waters of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (CCAMLR Statistical ... were set in both Subareas; a total of 137,000 experimental hooks. The evaluation was based on ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/52 : Author(s): J.M. Fenaughty (New Zealand)

6. Report of biological observations carried out on board the krill fishing vessel More Sodruzhestva in April to August 1991

   fishing vessel More Sodruzhestva in April to August 1991 in Subareas 48.2 and 48.3. The program included ... channichthyids. In general, krill density in Subarea 48.2 was twice as high as that in Subarea 48.3. Catch-per ... dominant in catches taken in April/May in the north-west of Subarea 48.2. Krill of modal sizes 31 to 32 mm ... and 35 to 36 mm made up the bulk of catches in the south-east of the subarea. No by-catch of juvenile ...

   Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-92/06 : Author(s): V.I. Latogursky (Russia)

7. Biological characteristics of Antarctic fish stocks in the Southern Scotia Arc region

   Abstract:  Commercial exploitation of finfish in the southern Scotia Arc took place from 1977/78 ... catches in the first four years of the fishery and the possibility to sample these catches extensively ... . Scientific surveys were only conducted by Germany in 1985, and by Spain in 1987 and 1991. Recently, the US ... lower South Shetland Islands in 1998 and around the South Orkney Islands in 1999. New data are presented ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/16 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock (Germany), C. Jones (USA) and S. Wilhelms (Germany)

8. LIFE HISTORY BUFFERING IN ANTARCTIC MAMMALS AND BIRDS AGAINST CHANGING PATTERNS OF CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION

   interannual variation in fitness. These species maximise fitness by keeping a low inter-annual variance in the ... survival of adults and in their propensity to breed annually, which are the vital rates that influence most ... the variability in population growth rate (λ). All these species have been able to buffer these rates ... against the effects of recent climate-driven habitat changes except for Antarctic fur seals, in the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/P05 : Author(s): J. Forcada, P.N. Trathan and E.J. Murphy

9. Environmental response of upper trophic level predators reveals a system change in an Antarctic marine ecosystem

   Abstract:  In the Antarctic Peninsula region current, long-term changes in the physical ... Georgia. Indices of population size and reproductive performance showed declines in all species and an ... increase in the frequency of years of low reproductive output. Changes in the population structure of krill ... largest size class was sufficient to support predator demand in the 1980's but not in the 1990's ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/21 : Author(s): K. Reid and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)

10. Revised research plan for the 2016/17 exploratory longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Subarea 48.6 by South Africa and Japan

    Abstract:  South Africa and Japan have revised the next season’s (2016/17) research plan in ... in 2016. We have used extracted data provided by CCAMLR Secretariat in this late August for the ... current analysis, but not used the cleaning data provided by them in this early September due to tight ... schedule toward the submission. We investigated the biological features of D. mawsoni in the Subarea and ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-16/32 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegations of Japan and South Africa

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