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1. Southern Ocean Network of Acoustics (SONA)

   Abstract:  Southern ocean processes are intimately linked to some of the most pressing challenges ... faced by society today: climate change, ocean acidification and the sustainable management of marine ... resources. To address these challenges we need to improve our understanding of the natural causes and ... through international collaboration, will enable us to measure the baseline and future trends in the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/17 Rev. 1 : Author(s): S. Fielding (United Kingdom), E. Josse (France), R. Kloser (Australia), R. O’Driscoll (New Zealand), C. Reiss (USA) and G. Skaret (Norway)

2. On commercial significance of krill aggregations

   Abstract:  We made an attempt to estimate krill commercial biomass density within the fleet ... operation areas and compare it with critical density values for marine animals feeding on krill. The results ... of acoustic investigation obtained in the Soviet trawler operation areas in Subareas 48.1-48.4 were ... numbering 22000 hauls for the period of 1986-1990 and those from Ukrainian trawlers for the period of 2001 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/31 : Author(s): S.M. Kasatkina (Russia)

3. Beach litter accumulation at sub-Antarctic Marion Island – 1998/99

   accunmulation for the year May 1998- April 1999. The amount of debris found in both annual and monthly ... accumulation studies, showed a substantial decrease from the peak experience during 1997/98 season, but is ... still double that recorded during 1984. This recent decrease was mainly due to a decrease in the number ... dominated for the previous two years. Items originating from South America (Argentina in particular) were ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVIII/BG/22 : Author(s): Delegation of South Africa

4. Diet composition of Dissostichus eleginoides in Subarea 48.3, Dr Eduardo Holmberg survey March/April 1996

   Abstract:  A diet analysis of the patagonian toothfish Diissostichus eleginoides in the Subarea ... ; (%) methods. The samples consisted chiefly of immature specimens, with predominant length ranges of 30-70 cm ... (TL). Fish was by far the main food at SR and SG (63 % as sole prey). Krill appeared as secondary food ... , although its importance was overestimated by the frequency of occurrence method. Cephalopods and mysids ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/29 : Author(s): Barrera-Oro, E., Marschoff, E., Casaux, R.

5. Outline proposal for geographic information services for CCAMLR

   Abstract:  This document outlines a proposal from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to provide a ... Geographical Information System (GIS) for CCAMLR.  The proposal offers a web-based GIS that will provide state ... -of-the-art capacity for managing spatial data for CCAMLR, particularly the types of information ... managed by WG-EMM. It also proposes joint working with the Secretariat to enable capacity building in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/70 : Author(s): Submitted by the Secretariat on behalf of Adrian Fox, British Antarctic Survey (United Kingdom)

6. Estimates of local biomass, including estimates of uncertainty, for Antarctic (Dissostichus mawsoni) and Patagonian (Dissostichus eleginoides) toothfish in research blocks in Subareas 48.2, 48.6, 58.4 and 88.3

   at WG-SAM-16 with revisions to the CPUE-by-seabed area parameter values agreed at WG-SAM-17. The ... analysis includes Research Blocks in Subareas 48.2, 48.6, 58.4 and 88.3. Given the changes in CPUE-by ... -seabed area method parameter values that were agreed at WG-SAM-17, the estimates of biomass in the ... relevant Research Blocks have increased relative to the estimates that were presented at WG-FSA-16. The ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/42 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

7. Preliminary assessment of toothfish in Subarea 48.3

   Abstract:  As with the 2009 assessment of Subarea 48.3, there is still uncertainty as to why there ... were high numbers of the 2001 cohort in commercial catches in 2009 onwards.  It is likely that it is ... due to a combination of a strong 2001 cohort and a change in selectivity for the commercial fleet, but ... it has not been possible to determine the relative importance of each explanation. Median log-normal ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-11/33 Rev. 1 : Author(s): T. Peatman, R.E. Mitchell, G. Parkes and D.J. Agnew (United Kingdom)

8. Depletion-based stock reduction analysis: a catch-based method for determining sustainable yields for data-poor fish stocks

   for data-poor fisheries in cases where approximate catches are known from the beginning of ... exploitation. The method, called Depletion-Based Stock Reduction Analysis (DB-SRA), merges stochastic Stock ... specified based on general fishery knowledge of the relative location of maximum productivity and the ... relationship of MSY fishing rate to the natural mortality rate. This leaves unfished biomass as the only ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-11/P2 : Author(s): E.J. Dick and A.D. McCall

9. Survey estimates of recruitment of toothfish in Subarea 48.3

   data used by the Working Group for toothfish assessments in 1999 and later were correct. We found ... , the modal progression of peaks in the length densities corresponding to cohorts assessed by sequential ... surveys. Length based analysis of these confirms the growth rate expected from the CCAMLR growth equation ... for South Georgia. Although it is easy to spot cohorts, the size of individual cohorts can not be ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-04/16 : Author(s): Collins, M., Wakeford, R.C., Moir-Clark, J., Belchier, M., Agnew, D.J.

10. Fishing gear, marine debris and oil associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia, 2001/02

    associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia during the period 1 April 2001 to 31 March 2002. It is ... the ninth such annual report. Fewer hooks and other longline fishery discards were recorded in ... association with wandering albatrosses compared to last year, but the number of items (63) remains well above ... the mean since annual recording began. The number of items of fishing gear associated with grey-headed ...

    Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXI/BG/07 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

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