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1. BEACH DEBRIS SURVEY AT CAPE SHIRREFF, LIVINGSTON ISLAND, DURING THE ANTARCTIC SEASON 1996/97

   Abstract:  During the Antarctic season 1996/97 a beach debris survey was carried out on the ... beaches of Cape Shirrefl Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, where a total of 1 609 articles with a ... total of 49.03 Kg were obtained. Besides, from a neighbouring area of Cape Shirreff, were collected 178 ... ) with a 94.30/.), followed by glass (67) with a 4.20/0; metal (19 pieces) 1.20/0; and paper (6 pieces ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVI/BG/35 : Author(s): Delegation of Chile

2. Ross Sea fishery research and data collection plan

   Abstract:  A review of the use and effectiveness of research lines as a data collection and effort ... collected through fishing activities has effectively made the requirement to force a spread of research sets ... demonstrably higher on research hauls. The paper concludes with a proposal for a more effective Research Plan ... , environmental, and longline specific data on both the target species and on other catch species in a non biased ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/49 : Author(s): J. Fenaughty (New Zealand)

3. Report on attendance at the Fourth Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection Under the Madrid Protocol

   issues of relevance to SC-CAMLR are: (1) A report of an open-ended intersessional contact group of the ... CEP reported on progress to find appropriate criteria for and a mechanism to ensure consistency in ... , the designation of Antarctic Specially Protected Species. The contact group will continue under a ... specified Terms of Reference; (2) A report from an intersessional contact group on Diseases of Antarctic ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XX/BG/03 : Author(s): Chair of the CCAMLR Scientific Committee

4. Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No. XYX, Edmonson Point, Wood Bay, Victoria Land, Ross Sea

   -free areas in Northern Victoria Land and was first identified in the 1980s as a site that could merit ... special protection. The site is representative in the sense that a wide range of freshwater habitats is ... unusually well-developed and the site is a good example of an Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) and south ... polar skua (Catharacta maccormicki) assemblage. Edmonson Point includes a Weddell seal (Leptonychotes ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/7 : Author(s): Delegation of Italy

5. OCEANIC CIRCUMPOLAR HABITATS OF ANTARCTIC KRILL

   view that krill require high food concentrations, with a distribution often linked to shelves. For a ... regions of moderate food (0.5-1.0 mg chl a m-3). Advection models suggest some loss northwards from these ... evidence for a compensating southwards migration, with an increasing proportion of krill found south of the ... ACC as the season progressed. The retention of krill in moderately productive oceanic habitats is a ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/P04 - Abstract : Author(s): A. Atkinson, V. Siegel, E. A. Pakhomov, P. Rothery, V. Loeb, R.M. Ross, L.B. Quetin, K. Schmidt, P. Fretwell, E.J. Murphy, G.A. Tarling and A.H. Fleming

6. Modelling the consequences of Antarctic krill harvesting of Antarctic fur seals

   ). A single species yield model is currently being used by the CCAMLR Scientific Committee to recommend ... an annual krill catch limit, which is expressed as a proportion (??= 0.116) of a survey biomass ... estimate. This approach takes the needs of predators into account in only a crude way by assuming that a ... predators. A krill-predator modeling procedure is presented that could be used to directly assess the impact ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/66 : Author(s): R.B. Thomson, D.S. Butterworth (South Africa), I.L. Boyd and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)

7. Towards an initial operational management procedure for the krill fishery in Subareas 48.1, 48.2 and 48.3

   requires a basis for the assessment of resource status, and an algorithm for specifying the levels of ... regulatory mechanisms (e.g. a catch control law) that depends on the results of the assessment. Developing ... and selecting a procedure requires a basis for the simulation testing of procedures, and an ... restricted to an initial ceiling (Cc) for a 5 year period, with a reference CPUE level (CPUEref) calculated ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/17 : Author(s): Delegation of South Africa

8. Abundance and trends of Type B killer whales (Orcinus orca) around the western Antarctic Peninsula

   impact of these physical changes on the marine ecosystem. The WAP is surrounded by a complex marine food ... web involving a number of predator and prey populations, and empirical data on abundance and trends is ... ecotypes (Types B1, B2 and A). Here we report on the movement patterns and abundance of both forms of Type ... B killer whales: a larger mammal-eating form (B1) that apparently specializes on hunting ice seals ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/16 : Author(s): H. Fearnbach, J.W. Durban, D.K. Ellifrit and R.L. Pitman

9. Krill of the Ross Sea: distribution, abundance and demography of Euphausia superba and Euphausia crystallorophias during the Italian Antarctic expedition (January–February 2000)

   ) were analysed to obtain a general picture of the summer distribution pattern, abundance and demography ... of krill in the western Ross Sea (Antarctica). A midwater sampler-trawl (Hamburg Plankton Net) was ... , in the area north of Continental Shelf, was 9.3 g/1000m3 of filtered water with a mean density of ... dominance in the High Antarctic Zone (south of 74°), with a mean relative biomass of 3.0 g/1000m3 and mean ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/32 Text : Author(s): A. Sala, M. Azzali and A. Russo (Italy)

10. Has climate change promoted genetic fragmentation in the ice-dependent fish Pleuragramma antarcticum?

    Abstract:  Pleuragramma antarcticum is the only Antarctic notothenioid characterized by a complete ... pelagic life cycle and plays a major trophic role in the coastal Antarctic marine ecosystem. A previous ... investigate the population structure of P. antarcticum along the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) shelf, a region of ... Antarctica highly impacted by regional warming. We found a single gene pool and an absence of inter-annual ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/67 : Author(s): C. Agostini, T. Patarnello (Italy), J. Ashford, J. Torres (USA) and L. Zane (Italy)

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