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1. Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella in man-made debris at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 2005/2006

   Island, South Orkney Islands are reported for the 2005/2006 summer season. There was 1 sighting of a seal ... wearing a neck collar of man-made debris. Data are compared with results from a parallel study undertaken ... number recorded at Bird island between the austral summers of 1988/89 and 2003/04. Although such a ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXV/BG/15 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

2. Preliminary analyses of data collected during experimental fishing for Patagonian toothfish in international waters of the southwest Indian Ocean (Area 51)

   to 27 July, 2003. This experience was carried out by a Spanish longliner, following commercial ... procedures, in a restricted area south of Madagascar and north of the Prince Edward and Marion Islands and ... the Crozet Islands, and outside EEZ and CCAMLR waters. A total of 57 sets were taken at between 360 ... of the main ground, in which a residual recruitment effect persists. The total CPUE was 42.21 kg/1000 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/19 : Author(s): L.J. López Abellán (Spain)

3. Update on the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP)

   (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France and Peru). ACAP is expected to provide a major boost for the conservation ... ; determining financial arrangements, a scale of contributions and a budget; establishment of a Secretariat for ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/51 : Author(s): B. Baker and T. Hewitt (Australia)

4. Entanglement of Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella in man-made debris at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 2001/02

   Island, South Orkney Islands are reported for the 2001/2002 summer season. There was a single sighting of ... a seal wearing a neck collar of man-made debris. Data are compared with results from a parallel ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXI/BG/06 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

5. Age-at-length of Patagonian toothfish from the Falkland/Malvinas Islands

   toothfish stock around the Falkland Islands, we used otoliths to estimate the age of a sample of 1893 ... Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) captured by trawl and in the longline fishery. We used a thin ... section grinding machine to reveal a transverse plane through the otolith nucleus and between ... age data, we estimated total mortality to be Z = 0.27. Author(s):  J. Ashford, A. Arkhipkin, C. Jones ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/74 : Author(s): J. Ashford, A. Arkhipkin, C. Jones and S. Bobko

6. CCAMLR-IWC Export Group Report: Primary Productivity and Phytopalnkton

   their use in the Southern Ocean. A brief history of algorithms linking ocean color to primary ... regional, carbon-based approaches. Using monthly climatologies of SeaWiFS chlorophyll, a phenology of ... information regarding phytoplankton species composition and succession is summarized. Finally, a review of ... ecosystem and biogeochemical models for the Southern Ocean is presented, with a focus on those models that ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-IWC-WS-08/13 : Author(s): Matear, R., Mongin, M., Lovenduski, N., Strutton, P.

7. Fishery selection for Patagonian toothfish in CCAMLR Subarea 48.3, asymptotic or dome shaped?

   with deploying fishing gear at increasing depths, there is the potential for a dome shaped selection ... highly uncertain quantities of cryptic biomass. A review of the fishery and tagging data from the ... information to determine the most likely fishery selection profile. A simple metric, the distribution of tag ... age with depth, is suggested as an indicator that a dome selection pattern is unlikely in the 48.3 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-15/29 : Author(s): C. Darby, V. Laptikhovsky and M. Soeffker (United Kingdom)

8. Fishing equipment, marine debris and hydrocarbon soiling associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia, 2005/06

   the total number of items encountered has decreased significantly since a peak between 2000 and 2002 ... exception of black browed albatross. Entanglements continue to be observed at a rate similar to that of ... occurrence of debris and fishing gear at Bird Island remains substantially lower than during a peak that ... occurred half a decade ago, the recent increase is of concern. Author(s):  Delegation of the United Kingdom ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXV/BG/11 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

9. Preliminary analysis of seabird by-catch in the South Georgia icefish fishery

   Abstract:  We conducted a preliminary analysis on the numbers of birds caught as a bycatch in the ... factors affecting the probability of a haul catching birds, but no significant factors were found that ... suggest that there may be a year effect. We were unable, with the limited data available, to separate ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-01/30 : Author(s): D.J. Agnew, N. Ansell and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)

10. Length composition, sex ratio, and pre-spawning migration of Dissostichus eleginoides in Subarea 48.3 during 1995

    South Georgia (NWSG). In March there was a high proportion of large females at Wshag (72%) but a nearly ... equal proportion of males and females at NWSG. It is suggested that a strong influx of small fish at ... at Wshag are hypothesised to be the result of a prespawning migration of sub-adults, especially males ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-95/27 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Agnew, D.J.

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