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1. Report on attendance at the Fifth Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection Under the Madrid Protocol

   Abstract:  This report outlines the participation of the SC-CAMLR Chair in the Fifth Meeting of ... issues of relevance to SC-CAMLR are: (a) SCAR presented to the CEP two reports regarding marine acoustic ... technology and the Antarctic environment. SCAR concluded that there is no evidence of negative impacts on the ... Antarctic marine organisms from the appropriate use of acoustic technology equipment. However, Germany had ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXI/BG/08 : Author(s): Chair of the CCAMLR Scientific Committee

2. DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF ANTARCTIC TOOTHFISH IN THE ROSS SEA

   Abstract:  This report is a synthesis of mostly existing information which has been compiled for ... the purposes of addressing items on the FEMA 2 agenda. It summarises the management of the fishery ... continental shelf of the Ross Sea itself, because this is the area where any ecosystem effects related to ... predators of toothfish are most likely to occur. Of the total catch from the fishery to date of almost 19 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/40 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet, S. Mormede and A. Dunn (New Zealand)

3. MODELING PREDATION BY TRANSIENT LEOPARD SEALS FOR AN ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT OF SOUTHERN OCEAN FISHERIES

   Abstract:  Correctly quantifying the impacts of rare apex marine predators is essential to ... prey vulnerability. We combined these uncertainties to evaluate the predatory impact of transient ... leopard seals on a community of mesopredators (seals and penguins) and their prey at South Georgia, and ... -selective predation and prey vulnerability. A population of 104 (90–125) leopard seals, of which 64%were ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/P08 : Author(s): J. Forcada, D. Malone, J.A. Royle and I.J. Staniland

4. Revised research plan for the 2013/14 exploratory longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Division 58.4.2

   last WG-SAM meeting. We tentatively recalculated a sample size of Dissostichus spp in each block in ... such a way that the numbers of tag recoveries in the 2016 season shows an approximately 0.3 of ... coefficient variance of biomass estimate from the bootstrapped procedure, under the condition that the ... block, in order to promote successful stock assessment. We tentatively examined the degree of coverage ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/39 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan

5. A meta-analysis of by-catch in the Ross Sea toothfish fishery

   Abstract:  Following the recommendation of WG-FSA in 2014 the Secretariat has undertaken an ... analysis of bycatch in CCAMLR longline fisheries. The numerical target catch ratio (the number of target ... fish as a proportion of the total number of fish caught), using haul by haul data from the Ross Sea ... toothfish fishery from 2008 – 2014, was used as a single metric to examine the amount of bycatch reported by ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/04 Rev. 1 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

6. Susceptibility to oxidative stress in different species of Antarctic birds: preliminary results

   against toxicity of reactive oxygen species (ROS). These highly reactive molecules are normally produced ... during the 4-electrons reduction of molecular oxygen to water coupled with oxidative phosphorylation and ... during the activity of several enzymatic systems which produce ROS as intermediates. If the antioxidant ... capacity is exceeded (i.e. as a consequence of enhanced intracellular formation of ROS) a pathological ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-99/59 : Author(s): S. Corsolini, F. Regoli, S. Olmastroni, M. Nigro and S. Focardi (Italy)

7. Trophic relations of the cephalopod Martialia hyadesi (Teuthoidea: Ommastrephidae) at the Antarctic Polar Front, Scotia Sea

   Abstract:  Samples of the squid, Martialia hyadesi, were collected aboard two Japanese squid ... Sea in February 1989. The dissected stomachs of 61 specimens were classified according to fullness and ... proportion of the sample had been feeding cannibalistically. Total lengths of the fish prey were estimated ... from sagital otolith size using published relationships. All fish were relatively small; 7- 35% of ...

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

8. Uncertainty in acoustic surveys of Antarctic krill

   estimates of74%, with confidence limits of ±55%. Author(s):  Demer, D.A. Title:  Uncertainty in acoustic ... . Compensating for these components of uncertainty resulted an increase in krill density estimates of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/72 : Author(s): Demer, D.A.

9. Report on attendance at the Third Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection Under the Madrid Protocol

   Abstract:  This report outlines the participation of the SC-CAMLR Chair in the Third Meeting of ... Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP-III) under the Madrid Protocol. The most important issues of ... designation of Specially Protected Species in respect of its own needs and in relation to available IUCN ... criteria; (c) CCAMLR's consideration of l\-larine Protected Areas should be carried forward and in ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XIX/BG/17 : Author(s): Chair of the CCAMLR Scientific Committee

10. Spatial aggregation of harvesting in Subarea 48.1, in particular during the summer and close to the coast

    period 1999/2000 to 2014/2015. We show that since 2013, both the number of hauls as well as the ... associated level of catch has increased in Subarea 48.1 during the penguin breeding season. We explore in ... detail, the fishing patterns in Subarea 48.1 during 2014/2015, showing that two areas of fishing ... took place from 27 December until 28 May, over 153 days of elapsed time. During this period 4 vessels ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/17 : Author(s): P. Trathan and S. Hill

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