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1. Regionalisation of the Southern Ocean: a statistical framework

   regions and/or ecoregions) in order to better understand the relative importance of ecosystem processes or ... for the purposes of managing human activities in relatively ecologically discrete areas ... regions. The Southern Ocean has been divided up into regions before, primarily based on frontal features ... . In this paper, we demonstrate a method developed for a regionalisation of the southern Indian Ocean ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/37 : Author(s): B. Raymond and A. Constable (Australia)

2. Proposal to standardise the submission of meeting documents to working groups

   Abstract:  At the request of the Scientific Committee, the Secretariat has prepared a single ... reference document which provides guidelines for the submission of meeting documents to the Scientific ... Committee, WG-EMM and WG-FSA (including ad hoc WG-IMAF). In the Secretariat’s view, the guidelines would ... benefit from some standardisation of the Working Group-specific differences in relation to: submission ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/10 : Author(s): Secretariat

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

   Abstract:  An updated version of the Spatial Multi-species Operating Model (SMOM) of krill ... advice regarding the subdivision of the precautionary catch limit for krill among 15 small-scale ... 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 ...

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

4. Extension to the krill-predator modelling exercise

   Abstract:  The krill-predator modelling calculations of Thomson and Butterworth (1995) are ... extended to take account of a number of the suggestions made at the 1995 meeting of the CCAMLR Working ... Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management. The resilience of the Antarctic fur seal population to ... krill harvesting is found to be strongly dependent on the estimate of the maximum annual growth rate (R ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/67 : Author(s): Thomson, R.B., Butterworth, D.S.

5. Progress report on the research longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Subarea 48.6 being jointly undertaken by Japan and South Africa: 2012/13

   Abstract:  The multi-year research plan that was adopted for the exploratory longline fishery in ... and South Africa during the first 6 months is presented. Two vessels participated in the fishery and ... so far they have concentrated their sampling effort in the southern section (south of 60˚S), where ... they caught a total of 162.8 tonnes of Dissostichus spp. out of the 200 tonne catch limit (Table 2 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-13/05 : Author(s): R. Leslie (South Africa), K. Taki, T. Ichii (Japan) and S. Somhlaba (South Africa)

6. Recent British Antarctic Survey publications relevant to the agenda of WG-EMM 2013

   Abstract:  WG-EMM has a broad agenda for discussions in 2013, including the following items ... related to feedback management: “review of spatial and temporal structure in the ecosystem in which the ... current Area 48 fishery operates” and “development of agreed decision-making mechanisms for the candidate ... feedback management approaches”. The British Antarctic Survey Ecosystems programme and its predecessors ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/21 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

7. The Concept of Representativeness in MPA Design

   Abstract:  The purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of “representativeness” in Marine ... application to the designation of a representative system of MPAs in the Southern Ocean. In 2005, CCAMLR ... endorsed advice from the Scientific Committee, which noted that representative areas, defined as “ areas ... the long-term ecological viability of marine systems, to maintain ecological processes and systems ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXII/BG/14 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC

8. Review of the CCAMLR regulatory framework and recommendations for streamlining fishery status

   Abstract:  In 2014 the  Commission acknowledged the extensive developments that have taken place ... areas and  requested a review of the requirements of CM 21-02 and related measures (e.g., CMs 21-01 and ... 24-01) in light of these developments.  It is apparent that the nomenclature and working ‘status’ of ... individual fisheries and the regulatory framework have become somewhat disconnected, and the Scientific ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIV/17 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Chair of the Scientific Committee

9. Update to recruitment series for Patagonian toothfish in the Heard Island region

   Abstract:  The recent fish survey at in the vicinity of Heard Island in 2000 has provided ... estimates of recruitment for at least one new cohort (1996) and another estimate of the 1995 cohort. The ... older cohorts are likely to be distributed more widely than the shallow part of the Heard Plateau ... , consistent with the observations from 1999. A reanalysis of all survey data from the region has shown that ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-00/42 : Author(s): A. Constable, R. Williams, T. Lamb and E. van Wijk (Australia)

10. Some considerations for the further development of statistical summaries of CEMP indices

    Abstract:  A potential method is presented for combining data collected as part of the CCAMLR ... ecosystem monitoring programme (CEMP) into a single index for each of the predator, prey and environment ... parameters. The proposed method is based on the usual theory of multivariate statistics and takes into ... account the covariance between parameters. The power of the statistical procedure recently adopted by WG ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-Stats-97/07 : Author(s): de la Mare, W.K.

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