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1. COMNAP search and rescue workshop

   Workshop in New Zealand. The CCAMLR secretariat attended the workshop as it has arrangements in place to ... provide to VMS data to Rescue Coordination Centres (RCCs) for incidents relating to Search and Rescue in ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-38/BG/28 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

2. A review of models of Southern Ocean ecosystems: krill, ecosystems and the impacts of harvesting

   Abstract:  An ecosystem approach for the management of human activities in the Southern Ocean is ... enshrined in the principles of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ... in the world. The main categories we consider are models of krill populations and life cycles ... , predator-prey models and models of ecosystems. A range of approaches has been developed in each of these ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/67 : Author(s): S.L. Hill, E.J. Murphy, K. Reid, P.N. Trathan (United Kingdom), A. Constable (Australia)

3. Sampling toothfish from longlines with unequal probabilities

   with less catch effort than those outside; or more generally, sampling effort is applied in inverse ... unequal probabilities which, if unaccounted for, can lead to serious biases in estimates of population ... vital rates. To resolve this, either the probabilities need to be incorporated in the analysis of ... start a session. Because there is little evidence of a consistent trend in fish sampled over a line, it ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/85 : Author(s): J.R. Ashford (USA)

4. Fecundity and size at sexual maturity of the bigeye grenadier (Macrourus holotrachys) at South Georgia (CCAMLR Subarea 48.3)

   Abstract:  Fecundity and size at sexual maturity were investigated in 486 bigeye grenadier ... , Macrourus holotrachys caught as bycatch in the Patagonian toothfish longline fishery conducted around South ... final ovarian development is a prolonged process in M. holotrachys which probably lasts for a period of ... greater than a year. Sex ratios of specimens caught in the longline fishery are highly skewed with females ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/26 : Author(s): T. Mulvey, S.A. Morley, M. Belchier and J. Dickson (United Kingdom)

5. AN UPDATED DESCRIPTION AND PARAMETERISATION OF THE SPATIAL MULTI-SPECIES OPERATING MODEL (SMOM )

   -predator-fishery dynamics is described. This has been developed in response to requests for scientific ... management units (SSMUs) in the Scotia Sea, to reduce the potential impact of fishing on land-based predators ... . The model includes krill as prey and four predator groups (penguins, seals, fish and whales) in each ... combinations of model parameters essentially try to bound the uncertainty in, for example, the choice of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-08/17 : Author(s): É.E. Plagányi and D.S. Butterworth (South Africa)

6. Using mark-recapture and catch-age data to estimate fishing and natural mortality for the Patagonian toothfish at South Georgia

   natural mortality, and integrates catch-at-age data into the estimation model, to aid in distinguishing ... analysed with the model. The ages covered by the analysed cohorts ranged from 5 to 13. In the model runs ... be lower than those estimated in previous stock assessments using both mark-recapture and catch data ... . There was additionally some suggestion of agestructure in the natural mortality-at-age. Author(s):  R.M ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-06/06 : Author(s): R.M. Hillary and D.J. Agnew (United Kingdom)

7. Potential VMEs around Elephant and the South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1)

   in the South Shetland Islands area.  High biomass densities of VME indicator taxa, meeting the 10 kg ... new ‘diversity threshold’ is proposed in order to protect those VME taxa that do not occur in the ... Appendix II listed Antipatharia (black coral), which in the authors’ experience has never occurred at a ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/51 : Author(s): S.J. Lockhart (USA), N. Wilson (Australia) and E. Lazo-Wasem (USA)

8. Preliminary report on krill survey off the coast of East Antarctica (Enderby Land to Prydz Bay) February-March 2015

   mammals in East Antarctica. The small scale variability of prey in key foraging locations near to land ... -based colonies of penguins and flying seabirds in East Antarctica. Feasibility and potential of ... better understand the ecosystem in the region.  The survey completed 5 acoustic box surveys including a ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/22 : Author(s): S. Kawaguchi, A. Constable, L. Emmerson, C. Southwell, R. King, K. Westwood and K. Swadling (Australia)

9. A proposal for streamlining the work of the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources

   in the two working groups and subgroups. There is also a need to give time to emerging issues for ... which there is insufficient time at present in the existing working groups, such as consideration of ... marine protected areas in a CCAMLR context and the development and evaluation of management strategies ... topical issues. The aim of these workshops would be to bring together experts in biology, ecology ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIV/BG/30 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia

10. Survey database

    exports data from their databases in CCAMLR format. It was also agreed that Members should consider the ... and submitted to the Secretariat. In addition, WG-FSA agreed that the Data Manager would develop a ... feed-back mechanism for correcting errors in the database, and Members were urged to provide updates ... errors in the database. The mechanism necessarily involves on-going participation by data owners. Members ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/7 : Author(s): Secretariat

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