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1. Assessments of by-catch in trawl fisheries at Heard and MacDonald Islands

   Abstract:  This paper provides an assessment of the long-term annual yield for three species ... caught as by-catch in the commercial trawl fisheries in the Heard Island area (Statistical SubArea 58.5.2 ... undertaken with the aim of examining the potential for the commercial trawl fisheries to significantly affect ... the spawning biomass of these stocks in the longer term. The long-term annual yield for each of the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-97/30 : Author(s): de la Mare, W.K., Williams, R., Constable, A.

2. Defining smaller management areas within CCAMLR

   Abstract:  This paper discusses the principles required to develop of small-scale management units ... and highlights a work program in this development. It provides the theoretical foundation for ... considering the scales of management units involving the integration of local populations of harvested species ... , foraging areas of predators, fishing grounds and the potential influences of the environment, including ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/52 : Author(s): A.J. Constable and S. Nicol (Australia)

3. Science

   Science is fundamental to CCAMLR. The Convention itself was born out of the concern of scientists ... that, following unsustainable harvesting of fish in the sub-Antarctic during the late 1960s and mid ... -1970s, the emergence of interest in the large-scale exploitation of Antarctic krill may have drastic ... ecosystem consequences. In 1975, the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties (ATCPs) noted the need to focus ...

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4. Microbial study of toothfish tissue in Divisions 58.4.1 in 2014/15

   Abstract:  Dissostichus mawsoni, the Antarctic toothfish, is a local organism of the Southern ... Ocean. The fish is a member of the Notothenioidei, which lives in the sub-zero (-2 °C) continental shelf ... waters of Antarctica. The Antarctic toothfish are protected from freezing by the existence of antifreeze ... proteins in the tissue, which inhibit the ice making in the body fluids. In this project, we set a goal to ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/32 : Author(s): Delegation of the Republic of Korea

5. Second CCAMLR Performance Review

   The Commission for the Conservation of the Antarctic Living Marine Resources (CCAMLR) undertook a ... Performance Review in 2008 which resulted in wide-ranging recommendations that were taken up in the Commission ... second Performance Review (CCAMLR-XXXV, Annex 8). The Second Performance Review (PR2) of CCAMLR was ... conducted during the 2016/17 intersessional period. PR2 evaluated the following: Progress in implementing ...

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6. About CCAMLR

   Conserving Antarctic marine life The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living ... Resources (CCAMLR) was established by international convention in 1982 with the objective of conserving ... , a keystone component of the Antarctic ecosystem and a history of over-exploitation of several other ... marine resources in the Southern Ocean. Ecosystem-based management Being responsible for the conservation ...

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7. Gonad analysis of Antarctic toothfish in Subareas 58.4 and 88.3

   Abstract:  The ratio of female among the 600 specimens of Antarctic toothfish collected from the ... 58.4.1 area and 88.3 area within the CCAMLR Conservation Zone during February through March, 2013 was ... found to be 0.50, and displayed the tendency of increase with increase in the total length 140 cm. The ... gonadosomatic index of the fish was 2.5 for the female, and 1.7 for male.  The hepatosomatic index of female ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/09 : Author(s): J. Kim, S.-G. Choi, J. Lee, J. Lee and D. An

8. Seabird mortality on longlines in Australian waters: a case study of progress and policy

   seabirds each year, and is now acknowledged as representing the most pervasive threat to seabirds ... , particularly albatrosses, causing widespread declines in populations across the world. However the extent of ... seabird mortality is poorly known for most of the world's longline fisheries. Information on bird ... bycatch in the Southern Oceans is best known for the Australian and New Zealand regions. The 10 year ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-98/29 : Author(s): R. Gales, N. Brothers, T. Reid, D. Pemberton and G.B. Baker (Australia)

9. Publications

   States, Observers and the Secretariat to celebrate forty years since the Convention came into force ... , objectives and achievements to date. Annual publications The Commission report contains the record of the ... discussions among CCAMLR Members and the decisions made at the Commission’s annual meetings in Hobart. The ... Scientific Committee report is an annual publication recording CCAMLR’s scientific meetings throughout the ...

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10. Evaluation of de la Mare’s composite standardised index for generating a simple time-series summary of many long-term datasets on Antarctic predators: consequences of missing values and criteria for inclusion of predator parameters

    Abstract:  In 1997, de la Mare presented a statistic (labelled the Composite Standardised Index at ... the Workshop on Area 48) to WG-EMM for generating a simple time-series index of many long-term ... datasets on Antarctic predators. The value of the index in a given year is dependent on the specific ... parameters present in that year. In this respect, the robustness of the index is dependent on that subset of ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-98/45 : Author(s): A. Constable (Australia)

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