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1. RESPONSE OF ANTARCTIC BENTHIC COMMUNITIES TO DISTURBANCE: WRST RESULTS FROM THE ARTIWCIAL BENTHIC DISTURBANCE EXPERIMENT ON THE EASTERN WEDDELL SEA SHELF, ANTARCTICA

   this experimental field study. By means of 11 densely-placed hauls with a modified bottom trawl, a ... communities were sampled (invertebrate assemblages by multibox corers, the fish fauna by trawl hauls) and ... comparatively analyzed. Sediment texture and chemistry was not significantly altered by the heavy disturbance ... inflicted by repeated trawling, whereas the fauna was negatively affected. Invertebrate benthic biomass was ...

   Meeting Document : WS-VME-09/P05 : Author(s): Rossi, S., Mintenbeck, K., Knust, R., Isla, E., Gerdes, D.

2. Hydrographic conditions in the Elephant Island plateau region during December 1996

   Abstract:  Based on historic data as provided by the World Ocean Atlas 1994, the general climatic ... Plateau Region by RV POLARSTERN, is compared to the climatic background data, and to more recent data as ... collected by German research vessels in this region. By means of a new interactive software water mass ... charts, referenced to 0/300 dbar reveal the general flow as given by the geostrophic part of the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/06 : Author(s): Stein, M.

3. e-cc-xv-a5.pdf

   ... observer become just an ‘observer’ on compliance of a conservation measure, as stated in the heading ... SCOI by the Commission. 1.3 The Secretariat proposed that the subitem ‘Election of the Chairman and ... subjects related to its terms of reference, SCOI considered several other papers prepared by Members and ... the Secretariat. The list of documents considered by the Committee is given in Appendix II ... implementation of conservation measures in 1995/96 was prepared by the Secretariat (CCAMLR-XV/BG/17). 1.6 application/pdf attached to:SCOI-96

   Meeting Report : SCOI-96

4. e-cc-vii-aH.pdf

   ... inspectors shall be communicated to the Commission by 1 May each year. Designations shall remain valid ... observers and inspectors designated by Members. (a) The Commission shall communicate the register of ... observers and inspectors to each Contracting Party by 31 May each year. III. In order to verify ... compliance with measures adopted under the Convention, observers and inspectors designated by Members shall application/pdf attached to:SCOI-88

   Meeting Report : SCOI-88

5. The diet of black-browed albatrosses at the Diego Ramirez Islands, Chile

   , Chile, during the early chick-rearing period of 2000, 2001 and 2002. Diet composition was determined by ... similar throughout the study, with diet being dominated by fish in all three years. Overall, the main ... items taken were the fishes Macruronus magellanicus (66-89% by mass) and Micromesistius australis (2.6 ... -3.7% by mass), which are both fisheries-related species, and the squid Martialia hyadesi (8-20% by ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/9 : Author(s): J. Arata (Chile) and J.C. Xavier (United Kingdom)

6. UPDATE ON ITEMS OF INTEREST TO WG-IMAF

   requirement of fishing practices to reduce seabird bycatch by surface longline vessels and the introduction of ... regulations to reduce seabird bycatch by bottom longline vessels. The bycatch of seabirds by fisheries within ... (Convention seabirds) is detailed. This paper includes a tabulation of observed captures by species and ... bycatch estimations by fishery for all seabirds. This paper also contains description of the recent and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/47 : Author(s): N. Walker (New Zealand)

7. e-imaf-02 report.pdf

   ... observer indicated that an estimated 15 828 fish heads were discarded with hooks still in them ... . This level of hook discard in fish heads is consistent with the continued high frequency of hooks found ... their ability to swallow entire fish heads. The hooks found in the albatross colonies were of the type used ... be easily avoided by the removal of hooks from the fish heads, fish offal and fish by-catch prior ... analysis of data submitted to the Secretariat by international and national observers during the course of ... Group agreed that the plan of intersessional activities for 2002/03, compiled by the Convener, be ... indicated that for the purposes of detecting a substantial (order-of-magnitude) change in by-catch rate ... achieved by each vessel. 6.8 As usual, the total observed seabird catch rate was calculated using the application/pdf attached to:Ad Hoc WG-IMAF-02

   Meeting Report : Ad Hoc WG-IMAF-02

8. Otolith microstructure of juvenile fish, the first annulus radius and pelagic stage duration of icefish Champsocephalus gunnari (Channichthyidae) in the South Georgia area

   in the first 100 days of fish life was 6?k at fish length of 4 cm. By the 200th day the daily growth ... zone was 4.2?k at fish length 7.2 cm, by the 300th day – 3.5?k at fish length 11 cm, by the 400th day ... – 3.1?k at fish length of up to 11.8 cm, by the 500th day – 2.8?k at fish length of up to 12.5 cm. The ... period and by the end of the first summer of fish life approaches 5.5 – 10.4 cm. This corresponds to the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/75 Rev. 1 : Author(s): L.V. Shcherbich (Russia)

9. Towards an assessment of the stock of the ommastrephid squid Martialia hyadesi in the Scotia Sea: data from predators

   and Ommastrephidae. Fisheries for the latter have been characterised by dramatically fluctuating ... seal and is probably taken in significant quantities by several other Southern Ocean vertebrate ... predators. Estimated annual consumption by known predators in the Scotia Sea is 326098- 330642 tonnes, 94 ... % of which is taken by southern elephant seals, and the other species may take at least a further 51400 ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-IX/BG/13 : Author(s): Delegation of United Kingdom

10. Access and use of CCAMLR data

    The availability of data maintained on behalf of the Commission by the Secretariat is governed by ... . Copies of data held by other organisations (i.e. non-CCAMLR datasets) are subject to terms specified by ... may be submitted by emailing the Data Centre. Requests should specify the type of data, spatial and ... endorsed by the national representative to CCAMLR and the proposed use of the data should make specific ...

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