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1. By-catch of fishes caught by the fishery vessel Niitaka Maru in the South Georgia area (August to September 2004)

   by F/V Niitaka Maru (5306t) were made from August 6 to September 9, 2004 to the north of South ... Georgia Island. Among 100 net hauls quantitatively examined, a total of 12 species belonging to 6 families ... of by-catch fishes were occurred in 76 trawl catches. The family Myctophidae, the most abundant taxa ... during the present survey, were found in 61% of hauls examined. Although only one species, Lepidonotothen ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/19 : Author(s): T. Iwami, T. Hayashi, K. Taki and M. Naganobu (Japan)

2. Fishing cruise of the Russian trawler Zakhar Sorokin to the Antarctic (Subarea 48.3) from 16 February to 10 March 1999

   were done and 264,921 t of icefish were caught. 86% of catch were taken from 28 February to 3 March on ... the nothwestern slope of the South Georgia Island, where icefish fed actively on Antarctic krill and ... hour and 57 t per day of fishing. Icefish 27-33 cm long were the basis of catches. Total catch of other ... fish species constituted 9,171 t. Due to opinion of the captain of a Russian vessel and Russian ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/57 : Author(s): V.L. Senioukov and P.N. Kochkin (Russia)

3. INFORMATION ON SPAWNING AND FECUNDITY OF ICEFISH CHIONOBATHYSCUS DEWITTI

   Abstract:  On the basis of the analysis of the biological material collected by one of the authors ... during fishery for Antarctic toothfish from 2002 till 2008 on different grounds of the Antarctic Zone ... spawning period of deep-water icefish Chionobathyscus dewitti during spring-and-summer period of the ... southern hemisphere. Higher numbers of individuals in prespawning and spawning state were noted on ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-09/13 : Author(s): V. Prutko and D. Chmilevsky (Russia)

4. Predation release of Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarctica) in the Ross Sea

   Abstract:  Between 2001 and 2013 the number of breeding pairs of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis ... half a million. It has been suggested that predation release of Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma ... antarctica) due to fishing of one of its predators, Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni), could have ... , consumption rates and diets of toothfish and Adélie penguins over the Ross Sea shelf as a first test of the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/53 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton, P. Lyver, D. Stevens, J. Forman, R. Eisert and S. Mormede (New Zealand).

5. Population dynamics of the wandering albatross Diomedea exulans at Marion Island: long-line fishing and environmental influences

   breeding population of the Vulnerable wandering albatross Diomedea exulans. The numbers of birds breeding ... result of both real changes in the size of the population and changes in the proportion of the population ... influenced by both environmental and anthropogenic effects are described. The proportion of first-time ... survival rates of breeding adults were negatively correlated with Japanese pelagic longline fishing effort ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/11 : Author(s): D.C. Nel, F. Taylor, P.G. Ryan and J. Cooper (South Africa)

6. Entanglement of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella in man made debris at Bird Island, South Georgia during the 1997 winter and 1997/98 pup-rearing season

   Abstract:  Results of the survey of entanglements of Antarctic fur seals at Bird Island, South ... . Only seven seals were observed entangled in the winter, a drop of 59% from 1996. Four of these records ... were from adult females, a much higher proportion than in previous years. The number of entanglements ... in the summer was the lowest recorded to date, being 52% lower than in 1996/97. The percentage of ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVII/BG/11 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

7. A characterisation of the toothfish fishery in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 from 1997/98 to 2011/12

   Subarea 88.1 and for 10 years in Subarea 88.2. This report summarises the timing, depth, and location of ... fishing together with the catch of Dissostichus spp. and bycatch species by year for the period 1997–98 to ... 2011–12. During the 2011–12 fishing year most of the catch in Subarea 88.1 came from the slope SSRU ... 88.1K. About 70% of the catch in the north was taken from 88.1C, and about 85% of the catch on the shelf ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/42 : Author(s): M.L. Stevenson ,S.M. Hanchet, S. Mormede and A. Dunn (New Zealand)

8. Descriptive analysis of the toothfish (Dissostichus spp.) tagging programme in Subareas 88.1 & 88.2 for the years 2000–01 to 2012–13

   Abstract:  We provide an update of the descriptive analyses of the toothfish tagging programme in ... Subareas 88.1 and 88.2, including summaries of data for the 2013 season. Overall, a total of 37 047 ... tagging rate of one toothfish per tonne of catch in the Ross Sea region. Tag recapture data showed that ... most fish are recorded as being recaptured only a short distance from their point of release, typically ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/49 : Author(s): S. Parker, A. Dunn, S. Mormede and S. Hanchet (New Zealand)

9. Size and stage composition of age class 0 Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in the ice-water interface layer during winter/early spring

   Abstract:  The condition and survival of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) strongly depends on ... developmental stage. A comprehensive understanding of sea ice habitat use by krill, however, remains largely ... unknown. The aim of this study was to improve the understanding of the krill's interaction with the ... sea ice habitat during winter/early spring by conducting large-scale sampling of the ice-water ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/P16 : Author(s): F. Schaafsma, C. David, E. Pakhomov, B. Hunt, B. Lange, H. Flores, J.A. van Franeker

10. A distribution-free model of length-frequency distribution to inform fishery stratification for integrated assessments

    Abstract:  Length frequency distributions (LFD) of catch collected as a random sub-sample from ... /or gear specific selectivity. A distribution-free model of LFD is described which is fitted to the ... set of length quantiles L for a predetermined set of corresponding probabilities P (in this instance ... 0.05, 0.1 to 0.9 in 0.1 increments, and 0.95), constructed from individual length measurements of ...

    Meeting Document : WG-SAM-13/18 : Author(s): S. Candy, P. Ziegler and D. Welsford (Australia)

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