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1. The diet of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella during the breeding season at South Georgia

   Euphausia superba was the main prey item, occurring in 88% of all scats (n=497), whereas fish occurred in 47 ... % and squid in 5%. There was considerable intra and inter-annual variation in the characteristics of ... selecting particular sizes of krill and, therefore, that the krill in the diet reflects the krill available ... around South Georgia. The absence of group 3 krill (44-48 mm in length) in the South Georgia area, as ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/28 : Author(s): Arnould, J.P.Y., Reid, K.

2. Research results from the SPRFMO exploratory fishing program for Antarctic toothfish 2016 and 2017

   toothfish in the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) Convention Area during ... catch rates of post-spawning Antarctic toothfish, similar in magnitude to catch rates in the north ... . Fish were in poor body condition as assessed using Fulton’s condition factor indicative of full or ... partial starvation which would be consistent with a spawning event prior to the sampling in 2016 and 2017 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-18/39 : Author(s): J.M. Fenaughty, M. Cryer and A. Dunn

3. Male krill grow fast and die young

   examined with an extensive dataset derived from scientific surveys in the Indian Ocean sector and the ... southwest Atlantic sector, and from the krill fishery in the Southern Ocean. The percentage of males in size ... classes of adult krill was generally high in krill of 30-35 mm total length, always low in 38-42 mm krill ... , sometimes showed higher values in 45-50 mm krill, but always decreased in the largest krill (>50 mm ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/P6 : Author(s): S. Kawaguchi, L.A. Finley, S. Jarman, S.G. Candy (Australia), R.M. Ross, L.B. Quetin (USA), V. Siegel (Germany), W. Trivelpiece (USA), M. Naganobu (Japan) and S. Nicol (Australia)

4. Oil, marine debris and fishing gear associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia 1995/96

   Abstract:  In the third year of standardised recording of oil, fishing gear and marine debris at ... grey-headed albatrosses (two items). One gentoo penguin chick was released from entanglement in a ... were reported in association with grey-headed albatrosses (one squid jig decoy), black-browed ... (two squid jigs; six hooks swallowed and impaled (four in adults, two in chicks), the remainder being ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XV/BG/04 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

5. Diet and feeding ecology of the diving petrels Pelecanoides georgicus and P. urinatrix at South Georgia

   Bird Island, South Georgia. The diet of both species was dominated by crustaceans. in particular ... crustaceans in the diet of P. georgicus. and copepods, which contributed 71 % of the biomass of crustaceans in ... the diet of P. urinatrix. Calanoides acutus was the most numerous copepod in the diet of both species ... ; however, Rhincocalamus gigas was more common in P. urinatrix than in P. georgicus. The dominant amphipod ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/10 : Author(s): Croxall, J.P., Prince, P.A., Hill, H.J., Edwards, T.M., Reid, K.

6. Effect of a shore-based sampling program on Notothenia coriiceps populations

   coriiceps was studied at Potter Cove, South Shetland Islands, by comparing catch data taken in successive ... summers of 1992/93 to 1994/95 at one specific zone (site 1) with those taken in the same last summer at ... under similar sampling conditions (depth, net measurements, bottom type). In site 1, a marked decrease ... in length (TL) of the fish was observed throughout the whole period. The fish from sites 2 (x=32.4 cm ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/24 : Author(s): R. Casaux and E. Barrera-Oro (Argentina)

7. Winter habitat selection by Antarctic krill will increase krill-predator-fishery interactions during ice free years

   Abstract:  Climate change will affect populations and fisheries in the Southern Ocean as area ... typically covered by seasonal sea-ice become ice free in some winters (Stammerjohn et al. 2008). For ... of a commercial fishery (Nicol et al. 2010; Watters et al. 2013), recent declines in seasonal sea-ice ... around the Antarctic Peninsula in winters with contrasting ice conditions provide the first acoustic ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/05 : Author(s): C.S. Reiss, A. Cossio, C.D. Jones, A. Murray, G. Mitchell, J. Santora, K. Dietrich, E. Weiss, C. Gimpel, J. Walsh and G.M. Watters (USA)

8. SEASONAL ESTIMATION OF ABUNDANCE BY BOOTSTRAPPING INEXACT RESEARCH DATA (SEABIRD): A METHOD FOR ASSESSING ABUNDANCE AND UNCERTAINTY FROM HISTORICAL COUNT DATA USING ADELIE PENGUINS AS A CASE STUDY

   Abstract:  In addition to a review of published studies on Adelie penguin abundance at breeding ... sites in Antarctica, Southwell (2004) proposed a general abundance estimator appropriate for a species ... of that kind. The present study attempts to implement this estimator in the form of a parametric ... uncertainty at breeding sites in Antarctica. To achieve this task, a menu-driven suite of routines titled ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-PSW-08/11 : Author(s): J.P. McKinlay and C.J. Southwell (Australia)

9. Distribution and abundance of skates (Bathyraja spp.) on the Kerguelen Plateau through the lens of the toothfish fisheries

   as incidental by-catch in Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) longline and trawl ... fisheries, and the mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) trawl fishery on the Kerguelen Plateau (KP) in ... mainly with depth. Off Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI), in the southern part of the KP, B ... respectively.  The smallest species, B. murrayi, occurred mainly in the shallower waters down to 550 m, and was ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-16/P03 : Author(s): G.B. Nowara, P. Burch, N. Gasco, D.C. Welsford, T.D. Lamb, C. Chazeau, G. Duhamel, P. Pruvost, S. Wotherspoon and S.G. Candy

10. Managing fisheries to conserve the Antarctic marine ecosystem: practical implementation of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)

    Abstract:  Apart from exploitation of seals and whales, Antarctic fisheries began in the late ... 1960s with exploitation of the marbled rockcod, Notothenia rossii, in the South Atlantic, a species ... decimated in the first two years of the fishery following catches of about 500,000t. Two other species have ... (Champsocephalus gunnari), both of which still occur. Finfish catches declined in the 1980s but the development of ...

    Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVIII/BG/26

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