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1. DEPREDATION AROUND SOUTH GEORGIA AND THE IMPLICATIONS ON STOCK ASSESSMENT OF D. ELEGINOIDES

   identification and give an idea of population size, a photographic catalogue of individual animals was developed ... . To date, a total of 35 killer whales and 65 sperm whales have been seen, with re-sightings occurring ... winches were engaged and when the drive on the vessel was engaged during hauling. Recordings made from a ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-09/16 : Author(s): J. Moir Clark, D.A. Agnew, P. McCarthy and M. Unwin (United Kingdom)

2. ECOLOGICAL REPERCUSSIONS OF HISTORICAL FISH EXTRACTION FROM THE SOUTHERN OCEAN

   Abstract:  A major mid-1980s shift in ecological structure of significant portions of the Southern ... solely to climate factors as previously hypothesised. Over a brief period (1969-1973), several finfish ... strong year classes, as is true of such fish elsewhere. A climate regime, the Southern Annular Mode, once ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/P07 : Author(s): D. Ainley and L. Blight

3. Marine debris surveys at Bird Island, South Georgia 1990 to 1995

   . Between 1990 and 1995 beached debris was monitored at Bird Island, South Georgia. This was part of a ... %) and polythene bags (6 %) were the next commonest items. There was a substantial increase in the number ... Georgia in a parallel study. An increasing use of environmentally-aware scientific observers on all ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XV/BG/05 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

4. Penguin foraging behavior in relation to the distribution of prey

   ) was measured concurrently with a hydroacoustic assessment of the vertical distribution and abundance ... Islands, Antarctica between January 19 and March 10 1992. Krill was found to show a distinct diel ... midnight, with a reduction in effort around dawn and dusk (local apparent time). The mean and maximum depth ...

   Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-93/47 : Author(s): D.A. Croll, R.P. Hewitt, D.A. Demer and J.K. Jansen (USA)

5. Two decades of variability in krill predators at Bird Island, South Georgia and their potential as ecosystem indicators

   Southern Ocean, has been recorded annually for over two decades as part of a large marine ecosystem ... melanophris) and was a strong predictor of PRP for Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, and gentoo ... was a necessary but not sufficient condition for extreme (lower 10th percentile) negative anomalies ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/16 : Author(s): S.L. Hill, C.M. Waluda, H.J. Peat and S. Fielding (United Kingdom)

6. Population structure and connectivity of an important pelagic forage fish in the antarctic ecosystem, Pleuragramma antarcticum, in relation to large scale circulation

   Abstract:  Ocean circulation has been identified as a major process controlling the distribution ... ), a pelagic, neutrally buoyant notothenioid fish species, are distributed around the shelf systems of ... silverfish otoliths, and comparing the chemistry with simulated particle transport using a high resolution ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/23 : Author(s): J.W. Ferguson (USA)

7. SUMMARY OF VME NOTIFICATIONS MADE UNDER CONSERVATION MEASURES 22-06 AND 22-07

   registry. Since 2008, the Secretariat has received a total of 32 notifications of encounters with VMEs ... far in 2010/11; however a notification for two VMEs in the Ross Sea has been submitted to WG-EMM for ... consideration (WG-EMM-11/10). Since 2008, the Secretariat has also received a total of 112 VME-indicator ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/07 : Author(s): Secretariat

8. ANNUAL CHANGES IN SPECIES COMPOSITION AND ABUNDANCE OF BY-CATCH FISH COLLECTED BY JAPANESE KRILL SCIENTIFIC OBSERVERS IN THE NORTH OF SOUTH GEORGIA (CCAMLR SUBAREA 48.3), DURING AUSTRAL WINTER FROM 2002 TO 2008

   north of South Georgia during the austral winter from 2002 to 2008. A total of 19 species belonging to 8 ... the increase in size in recent years. Electrona antarctica was not a major component of the recent ... mesopelagic ichthyofauna. In contrast, P. choriodon, which is known as a South temperate species, became to ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/40 : Author(s): T. Iwami, K. Taki and M. Kiyota (Japan)

9. Biomass abundance and distribution of fish in the Kerguelen Islands’ zone (Division 58.5.1)

   Abstract:  A fish biomass survey cruise, named POKER 2006, was conducted during spring 2006/07 ... bathymetrical distributions of the species allow to conclude to a very stable localisation of the fish ... , important in the ecosystem. It is of a major interest for the management and conservation of fish ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/16 : Author(s): G. Duhamel and M. Hautecoeur (France)

10. Preliminary assessment of the South Georgia toothfish stock, 2007

    higher than was estimated last year. 2. Improvements are made to the fit of tag data through (a ... ) estimating a length-based ogive for tag-induced mortality, based on our 2005 survivorship experiment, in ... retardation than larger fish, and that on average it is 1 year or more. 3. A new model is developed which uses ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/29 : Author(s): D.J. Agnew, R. Hillary and J. Pearce (United Kingdom)

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