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1. Distribution of krill (Euphausia superba Dana) catches in the South Shetlands and South Orkneys

   around the coasts of the South Shetland and South Orkney Islands. Krill catches in these zones are shown ... , probably as a result of more variable hydrographic conditions. About 50% of the catch in Subarea 48.1 from ... December to March was taken within 40 km of the coast, and 90% within 80 km in all years 1988-1990. In 1987 ... and 1988 75% of the catch in Subarea 48.2 between December and March was taken within 80 km of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-92/19 : Author(s): D.J. Agnew (Secretariat)

2. Towards a Minimum Realistic Model for investigating trophic relationships between Antarctic toothfish and demersal fish in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

   in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. These demersal fish are known to form a part (in some cases a ... substantial part) of the diet of Antarctic toothfish of a size commonly taken by the Ross Sea fishery and are ... also taken as bycatch by the fishery: (1) macrourids (especially Whitson’s grenadier, Macrourus ... , Antimora rostrata); and (4) eel (moray) cods (Muraenolepsis spp.). Changes to the abundance of Antarctic ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-10/21 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton, S. Mormede and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)

3. Preliminary assessment of long-term yield of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) for the Heard Island Plateau region (CCAMLR Division 58.5.2) based on a random stratified trawl survey in May 2004

   58.5.2 in the vicinity of Heard Island in May 2004 to provide the information for an assessment of short ... -term annual yield in the 2004/2005 CCAMLR season. This paper provides a preliminary assessment of yield ... for the area of Division 58.5.2 to the west of 79 o 20’ E using standard CCAMLR methods. It presents a ... range of sensitivity analysis for the assessment based on deliberations at WG-FSA 2003 with respect to ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/76 : Author(s): C.R. Davies, T. Lamb, A.J. Constable and R. Williams (Australia)

4. Prohibition of finning of sharks caught in the CAMLR Convention Area

   Abstract:  1. In 2006, CCAMLR adopted Conservation Measure 32-18 on the conservation of sharks ... . The measure prohibits “directed fishing on shark species in the Convention Area…” and calls for the ... live release of incidentally-caught sharks where possible. The measure is, however, silent on the ... practice of shark finning should incidental catches of sharks occur. The delegations of Brazil, Chile ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXIII/20 : Author(s): Delegations of Brazil, Chile, European Union and the USA

5. Upward adjustments to local catch limits for the krill fishery in Subarea 48.1

   Abstract:  Here we compile three vignettes that, together, provide the basis for making upward ... adjustments to local catch limits for the krill fishery in Subarea 48.1.  We use the term local catch limit to ... refer to a catch limit that applies to a group of SSMUs (gSSMU), and the work presented here is based on ... the gSSMUs defined in another compilation of vignettes (AERD 2016a, pp. 3-13).  We propose upward ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/47 : Author(s): Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center and NOAA Fisheries

6. CCAMLR process of risk assessment to minimise the effects of longline fishing mortality on seabirds

   Abstract:  We describe the process used in the fisheries management system of the Convention for ... the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to minimise seabird bycatch, and the ... risk assessment methodology developed to assist this. We examine the progress of several Regional ... Fishery Management Organisations in taking steps to address seabird bycatch. CCAMLR has the most advanced ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/P2 : Author(s): S.M. Waugh, G.B. Baker, R. Gales and J.P. Croxall (Mar. Pol., in press)

7. Towards a seabird mortality risk assessment: distribution of seabirds in the WCPFC Convention Area and potential overlap with fisheries

   Abstract:  This paper reviews the distribution of seabird species with the WCPFC Area. From a ... review of the distributions of 99 species of albatross and petrel, 16 species of albatross and 60 species ... of petrel occur within the area of the WCPFC, and are potentially vulnerable to fisheries bycatch ... ), Vulnerable (n =26) and Near Threatened (n = 7). The remaining 30 species are classified by the IUCN as Least ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/30 : Author(s): S. Waugh (New Zealand)

8. A TIME FOR ACTION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ANTARCTIC KRILL FISHERIES

   Abstract:  In this paper, ASOC draws CCAMLR’s attention to the most pressing issues in relation to ... the ecosystem-based management of the krill fishery, including the adoption of a conservation measure ... that ensures systematic scientific observer coverage, the development of a coordinated research plan to ... address key scientific uncertainties at the SSMU level in Area 48, and the consideration of feedback ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/BG/24 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC

9. Recent increase and southern expansion of Adelie penguin populations in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, related to climatic warming

   Abstract:  The numbers of Adelie penguins Pygoscelis adeliae (Hombron and Jacquinot) in the Ross ... Sea, Antarctica, have increased markedly over the past 10 years. Proportionally, this increase is most ... pronounced in McMurdo Sound, where the species’ breeding range has recently been extended 3 km south to Cape ... Barne (77°35’S) with the re-occupation of a former rookery that was abandoned sometime before the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-92/22 : Author(s): R.H. Taylor and P.R. Wilson (New Zealand)

10. Preliminary analyses in support of the CEMP Review Workshop: serial correlations

    Abstract:  As part of the preliminary analyses undertaken in preparation for the CEMP Review ... Workshop, the Secretariat has documented serial correlation in time series of CEMP indices. The values ... input to the serial correlation analysis were the ‘transformed’ annual index values reported in WG-EMM ... -03/24. Serial correlation in biological indices occurred in 4, 10 and 33 % of the time series at ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/27 : Author(s): Secretariat

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