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1. Interannual variation in the diet of the Antarctic prion Pachyptila desolata at South Georgia

   regurgitated by adult birds during five breeding seasons at Bird Island, South Georgia. In all years the diet ... . Antarctic krill Euphausia superba was the dominant prey item in three years and was replaced by calanoid ... krill availability Antarctic Prions forage closer inshore, taking copepods by filtering surface water ... through their palatal lamellae. By switching to feeding on copepods Antarctic Prions are apparently able ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/12 : Author(s): Croxall, J.P., Edwards, T.M., Reid, K.

2. Data requirements for research fishing

   -by-haul basis using the format used by research vessels (data form C4); and (2) research fishing ... haul-by-haul basis using the formats used during commercial fishing by vessels (data form C2) and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-12/07 : Author(s): Secretariat

3. 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

   bootstrapped confidence intervals using both CPUE-by-seabed area and Chapman biomass estimation methods agreed ... 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 ... higher CPUE-by-seabed area estimates has also resulted in a greater overlap in confidence intervals with ...

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

4. Meta-analysis of catch reporting in CCAMLR exploratory fisheries

   Abstract:  The Secretariat has prepared a meta-analysis of the target and by-catch reported in ... target species divided by the total number of fish caught (the target catch ratio) is used as simple ... metric of the relative level of target and by-catch reported for each haul. This index showed little ... data reported in CCAMLR fisheries may include the development of a detailed manual on by-catch sampling ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-18/14 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

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

   levels of depredation caused by killer whales (Orcinus orca) and sperm whales (Physeter macrocaphalus ... %) with killer whales present on 562 lines (3.8%) and sperm whales on 2588 lines (17.7%). By comparing the ... cetaceans and noises made by the vessels, generated by propeller cavitations, gearing and drive shafts, the ... distance of 3.4nm away were picked up by the hydrophones and it is thought that these acoustic cues could ...

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

6. Reconciling fisheries with conservation: three examples from the Southern Ocean

   Abstract:  Preservation of ecosystem structure is the guiding principle by which the Commission ... employed by CCAMLR is the application of a precautionary approach, which explicitly incorporates ... compared to the precautionary limit established by CCAMLR, fishing effort concentrated near colonies of ... land-breeding krill predators may pose a threat as well as those posed by the broader-scale influence ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/48 : Author(s): R.P. Hewitt (USA), I. Everson (United Kingdom) and C.D. Jones (USA)

7. Beach debris survey – Signy Island, South Orkney Islands 2002

   from three study beaches. The debris was counted, measured and classified by type, mass and size ... increase of 59% by number and 97% by mass since 2000/01). There was an increase in the number of plastic ... % of all items recorded, followed by wood (23%). Classifying the waste by source revealed that almost ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXI/BG/05 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

8. FIELD IDENTIFICATION GUIDE TO HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLAND (HIMI) BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES

   deployment at-sea, as well as for use by trained observers to make accurate identifications of invertebrate ... by-catch when operating in the HIMI region. Based on available data, this publication will include ... region thus far. This guide will enable observers to gather invertebrate by-catch data at higher ... by observers in other CCAMLR designated fisheries and that CCAMLR consider adopting the numerical ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/59 : Author(s): T. Hibberd and K. Moore (Australia)

9. Report on scientific observations onboard the Chilean longliner, ‘Puerto Ballena’, in Statistical Subarea 48.3 from March to May 1996

   D. eleginoides, the estimation of the finfish by-catch, the estimation of a conversion factor of ... considerable portion of the seabird by-catch. A by-catch of 159 dead seabirds was reported by the scientific ... observer and the crew with black-browed albatrosses and white-chinned petrels forming the bulk of the by ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-96/22 : Author(s): Selling, J., Kock, K.-H.

10. Diet variability and reproductive performance of macaroni penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus) at Bird Island, South Georgia

    2010. Crustaceans were the main prey accounting for over 90 % of the diet by mass. Antarctic krill ... diet. 59 % of all diets were dominated (> 90 % by mass) by euphausiids, 15 % were dominated by fish ... feed on a variety of prey types, chick growth was always severely impacted by a shortage of euphausiids ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/17 : Author(s): C.M. Waluda, S.L. Hill, H.J. Peat and P.N. Trathan (United Kingdom)

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