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1. TOWARDS A SYSTEM OF MARINE SPATIAL PROTECTION FOR THE SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS

   11 priority areas in which work to establish spatial protection should be focused (CCAMLR-XXVII ... Report, para 7.2). In 2008, a pilot study undertaken for this region demonstrated that a systematic ... marine spatial protection for the South Orkney Islands region. It concludes that the method outlined in ... considered for implementation in Subarea 48.2. Such measures could include any of the range of tools ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/22 : Author(s): S. Grant, P.N. Trathan, J. Tratalos and J. Silk (United Kingdom)

2. AGE AND GROWTH OF SPINY ICEFISH, CHAENODRACO WILSONI REGAN, 1914, OFF JOINVILLE-D'URVILLE ISLANDS (ANTARCTIC PENINSULA)

   benthic trawl carried out off Joinville-D’Urville Islands (Antarctic Peninsula) in February-March 2006 and ... polishing whole otoliths embedded in epoxy resin in moulds. The precision of age estimates between readings ... maturity and a considerable short life span. The fish population of C. wilsoni caught in the studied area ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/33 : Author(s): M. La Mesa, A. De Felice (Italy), C.D. Jones (USA) and K.-H. Kock (Germany)

3. Draft MPA Report for the South Orkney Islands Southern Shelf (MPA Planning Domain 1, Subarea 48.2)

   established by CCAMLR in 2009 (CCAMLR-XXVIII paragraph 7.1; CM 91-03), with the objective of contributing ... towards the conservation of biodiversity in Subarea 48.2, and to the development of a representative ... system of protected areas across the Convention Area. In 2013, a preliminary draft MPA Report was ... developed for the SOISS MPA (WG-EMM-13/10), based on the report structure proposed in WG-EMM-12/49. The ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/25 : Author(s): Delegation of the European Union

4. Note sur l'étude des effets environnementaux, spatiaux, temporels et opérationnels sur la mortalité accidentelle des oiseaux dans la pêcherie à la palangre dans les secteurs de Crozet et Kerguelen en 2003–2006

   Abstract:  Incidental mortality has diminished considerably in comparison with the period from ... higher mortality in the northern and central areas in the east, and northern and southern areas in the ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVI/BG/21 : Author(s): Délégation française

5. Review of biological parameters for Ross Sea skates

   taken as bycatch in the Ross Sea toothfish fishery: Amblyraja georgiana and Bathyraja cf. eatonii ... . Differences in length-weight relationships among regions raise doubt about the conspecificity of A. georgiana ... (TL). The length at maturity of females is not well determined but is probably in the range 95–100 cm ... both sexes combined is: TLt = 101.3(1? e?0.308[t+1.30]). The best estimate of longevity in A. georgiana ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/31 : Author(s): M.P. Francis (New Zealand)

6. Demography and population trends of the Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross

   Tristan da Cunha archipelago and Gough Island in the central South Atlantic Ocean, and is threatened by ... mortality from longline fisheries operating in the South Atlantic. Demographic data have been collected from ... two study colonies on Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha for 20 years. Annual variation in the number ... in the South Atlantic Ocean. Population modeling predicts annual rates of decrease of 1.5–2.8% on ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/37 : Author(s): R. Cuthbert (United Kingdom), P.G. Ryan, J. Cooper (South Africa) and G. Hilton (United Kingdom)

7. Beach debris survey, Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 2000/2001

   CCAMLR in 1995/96 has been effective and should continue. Plastic waste was predominant, as in previous ... duration of sea-ice around Signy Island was prolonged in 2000/2001 and may have limited the amount of ... materials with a high resistence to degradation in the marine environment remains a problem and highlights ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XX/BG/05 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

8. Beach debris survey Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 1997/98

   debris items collected from the beaches was the lowest recorded since the surveys began in 1990. This ... fishing vessels brought into force by CCAMLR in 1996, 36% of the debris found at Signy were packaging ... bands although the number recovered has been decreasing since 1993/94. The reduction in debris reported ... at Signy Island in 1997/98 continues a promising trend. However the considerable amount of plastic ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVII/BG/20 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

9. SEABIRD: DRAFT USER MANUAL V1.00-2008/06/18

   that allows a great deal of flexibility in specifying the population dynamics, parameter estimation ... modelled population in the way that best suits the available data. Depending on these data the user may ... stage (e.g., immature or mature), sex, or behaviour (e.g., in any year mature birds may be classified as ... of events in a model year. A wide variety of types of data can be used. Estimation can be by maximum ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-08/P03 : Author(s): D. Fu and R.I.C.C. Francis (New Zealand)

10. Acoustic discrimination of southern ocean zooplankton

    Abstract:  Acoustic surveys in the vicinity of the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia revealed ... the existence of a number of horizontally extensive yet vertically discrete scattering layers in the ... employed for fishery acoustics, it is possible to discriminate in situ between several zooplanktonic taxa ... , taxa which in some instances exhibit similar gross morphological characteristics and have overlapping ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/54 : Author(s): Watkins, J.L., Brierley, A.S., Goss, C., Ward, P.

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