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1. Sea ice characterisation of the proposed Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area Special Research Zone

   has had on the fishery in the area during that time, and potential influences sea ice might impose on ... achieving the objectives of the proposed SRZ in the future. Based on historic satellite-derived sea ice ... in about half of the fishing seasons. Over the past 16 seasons, the SRZ was accessible to fishing in ... January in 8 seasons, open later (mostly after the fishery closed) and never completely cleared in 4 ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXIV/BG/31 : Author(s): S. Parker, S. Hoyle, S. Hanchet and R.J.C. Currey (New Zealand)

2. Mercury concentrations of five species of Antarctic fish collected from CCAMLR Subareas 88.1 and 88.2

   (NZFSA). In contrast, mean levels of mercury for D. mawsoni were 0.10 mg/kg-1 in the 1998 samples and ... 0.16 mg/kg-1 in the 2006 samples, both of which are well below the permissible level. Mercury levels ... had been accounted for, the mercury levels in D. eleginoides were over four times greater than in D ... levels were positively correlated with fish length in four of the species. Mercury levels also showed ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/24 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet, D.M. Tracey, A. Dunn, P.L. Horn and N. Smith (New Zealand)

3. Antarctic icefishes (Channichthyidae) – a unique family of fishes – a review

   Abstract:  Icefish are a family of species unique among vertebrates in that they possess no ... haemoglobin. With the exception of one species, icefish live only in the cold – stable and oxygen – rich ... environment of the Southern Ocean. It is still questionable how old icefish are in evolutionary terms: they ... growth, are not unique and are comparable to other notothenioids living in the same environment. Icefish ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/10 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock (Germany)

4. Conservation of Antarctic pack-ice seals with increasing krill fishing and environmental change

   consumption in the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP)-western Weddell Sea area, the main fishery region; and we ... consider long-term changes in suitable pack-ice habitat, increased fishing pressure and potential krill ... and in the entire area, over 3 million crabeater seals can consume over 12 million tonnes of krill ... krill. High seal densities where found in the small-scale fishery management areas of the WAP, where ...

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/24 : Author(s): J. Forcada, P.N. Trathan (UK), P.L. Boveng (USA), I.L. Boyd (UK), D.P. Costa (USA), M. Fedak (UK), T.L. Rogers and C.J. Southwell (Australia)

5. Unusual breeding by seabirds at Marion Island during 1997/98

   Abstract:  In 1997/98, breeding at subantarctic Marion Island was exceptionally good for five ... Aptenodytes patagonicus chicks surviving to the start of spring in 1997 was considerably more than previously ... recorded, and more southern giant petrels M. giganteus did so than in any other year since 1994. For ... southern giant petrels, reproductive success was higher than in any other year, as was survival of chicks ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/13 : Author(s): R.J.M. Crawford, C.M. Duncombe Rae, D.C. Nel and J. Cooper (South Africa)

6. Standing stock estimates of finfish biomass from the 2002 Polarstern bottom trawl survey around Elephant Island and the South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1) with some notes on the composition of catches taken north of Joinville Island – D’Urville Island

   and the South Shetland Islands in January – February 2002 in close collaboration with the U.S ... results obtained in 1998 and 2001 for most species. Length compositions in the most abundant species ... resembled closely those in previous years. The proportion of juvenile G. gibberifrons, the most abundant ... species in the region, decreased significantly since 1998. No indication was found for the presence of a ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/24 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock (Germany), C.D. Jones (USA), J. Appel (Germany), G. von Bertouch (CCAMLR Secretariat), D.F. Doolittle (USA), M. la Mesa (Italy), L. Psenichnov (Ukraine), R. Riehl (Germany), T. Romeo (Italy), S. Schöling (Germany) and L. Zane (Italy)

7. Ecosystem modelling for the Antarctic krill fishery

   Abstract:  Euphausia superba Dana (Antarctic Krill) has been recognized as a key forage species in ... the Antarctic ecosystem. This species serves as prey for many organisms in the ecosystem and has also ... but there is concern that the reduction in krill biomass due tome fishery may have impacts on other ... krill predators such as penguins, seals and whales. In order to evaluate the effects of krill fishing on ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/65 : Author(s): T. Antezana, J. Cornejo, E. Bredesen, P. Faundez (Chile), A.W. Trites and T. Pitcher (Canada)

8. 30 years of krill fisheries management – challenges remain

   patterns, with catches concentrated recently in certain areas such as Subarea 48.1. Based on sea-ice ... reduction projections, concentrated catches in Subarea 48.1 during winter are expected to occur more ... concern since key spawning, recruitment and nursery areas of krill are located in the Southwest Atlantic ... sector, an area that has been warming rapidly, resulting in a reduction in the extent and duration of ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/BG/19 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC

9. A proposal for compiling information, assessments and science that underpin established CCAMLR Marine Protected Areas and provide the basis for ongoing management, science and review: an MPA Report

   Abstract:  The General Framework for the Establishment of CCAMLR Marine Protected Areas in ... advice in a readily accessible document, which can then form the basis for review, refinement and ... management of the MPAs. This document will also need a name that is easily referred to in the common language ... , to serve this purpose in the same way that Fishery Reports have been developed by the Scientific ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/49 : Author(s): A. Constable, M. Guest, D. Welsford (Australia), P. Koubbi (France) and L. Weragoda (Australia)

10. The Ross Sea cephalopod community: insights from stable isotope analysis

    identified as having relatively high importance in the food-web of the Ross Sea. However, information on the ... nitrogen (δ 15 N) and carbon (δ 13 C) were determined in muscle and beak tissue from a range of cephalopod ... isotopic comparisons were made at the level of genus to accommodate the uncertainty in octopod ... of either movement northwards out of the Ross Sea or of coupling with the benthic system. In contrast ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/55 : Author(s): D.R. Thompson, M.H. Pinkerton, D.W. Stevens (New Zealand), Y. Cherel (France), S.J. Bury (New Zealand)

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