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1. An underwater setting method for surface longliners, to minimise the accidental/incidental capture of seabirds

   significant decline in the numbers of some species (most notably albatross Diomedea sp) in the Southern Oceans ... . In response to the sea bird problem, the New Zealand Department of Conservation funded a programme in ... are reported in this document. One with the tube opening facing forward was unsuccessful,in flushing ... bait to the setting depth, however a backward facing U tube succeeded in flushing the bait on all ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-97/53 : Author(s): Walshe, K.A.R., Parnes, P.

2. Growth per molt of male snow crab Chionoecetes opilio from Conception and Bonavista Bays, Newfoundland

   Abstract:  Over 6000 male snow crabs were tagged during a 6-year period in Conception Bay ... , Newfoundland, in order to estimate the increase in size at the time of molting. Ninety-two animals were ... interpretation. First, animals in the group presumed to have molted twice were at liberty on average twice as ... predicted the size after two molts in close agreement with a regression line fitted to data on double ...

   Meeting Document : WS-CRAB-93/12 : Author(s): D.M. Taylor and J.M. Hoenig (USA)

3. The Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area: Current proposal and looking forward

   management. Since MPA planning commenced, CCAMLR has identified the Ross Sea as a key region in a ... MPA proposed in 2012 was designed to meet an array of ecological and scientific objectives while also ... allowing for an economically viable toothfish fishery in the Ross Sea. Since 2012, Ross Sea region MPA ... reflected in the current proposal. Through this document, ASOC highlights the revisions made to the current ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/BG/27 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC

4. Status of white-chinned petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis Linnaeus 1758, at Bird Island, South Georgia

   breeding in tussock grassland at sub-Antarctic islands. Over the last decade it has been killed in large ... numbers in temperate and sub-tropical longline fisheries. However, no data are available on the global ... the distributioin and density of occupied burrows in 1981 and 1998. In both surveys white-chinned ... petrel burrows occurred in one-quarter of the 460–47736-m2 quadrats surveyed. The total number of burrows ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/26 Rev. 1 : Author(s): S.D. Berrow, J.P. Croxall and S.D. Grant (United Kingdom)

5. Examination of the gut contents of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) from the toothfish pot fishery trials around South Georgia

   , (Dissostichus eleginoides), represents an important target species for fisheries not only in the study area ... around South Georgia (CCAMLR Sub-area 48.3), but also in other CCAMLR areas. To improve the knowledge on ... during the toothfish pot fishery trials undertaken in the area during the period March to May 2000. 3,640 ... empty stomachs was greatly reduced in fish caught using pots rather than longlines, increasing sample ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-00/25 : Author(s): G. Pilling, T. Daw, M. Purves, D. Agnew and J. Xavier (United Kingdom)

6. Detailed distribution of krill fishing around South Georgia

   only been available to the scientific community in the form of sub-area or fine-scale(0.5 ° latitude by ... has operated they do not reveal the localised nature of the fishing operation. In particular they give ... . Over the last three winter fishing seasons (1993-1995) haul by haul statistics have been recorded in ... a seasonal pattern. In 1994 the fishery was almost totally based over a large shallow bank area on ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/64 : Author(s): Parkes, G., Everson, I., Trathan, P.N., Murphy, E.J.

7. Preliminary analysis of toothfish catch, CPUE, size structure and mark-recapture data from SSRUs 486A and 486G, with comments on the sustainability of different harvest levels

   in Subarea 48.6 north of 60°S (the combined SSRUs 48.6A and 48.6G). A preliminary assessment for D ... . mawsoni in Subarea 48.6 south of 60°S (the combined SSRUs 48.6B through 48.6E) is given in an Appendix. An ... to size via a simple von-Bertalanffy equation in which variance in catch-at-length for a given age is ... possible given the available information.  Actual assumptions are set out in this document.  CPUE data are ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/31 : Author(s): E. Thomson and M. Bergh (South Africa)

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. 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)

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