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1. Monitoring and managing the effects of environmental change on toothfish assessments

   Abstract:  This paper presents a ‘first-step’ proposal for CCAMLR to consider the effects of ... environmental conditions that are maintained over a number of years, which includes the effects of global ... climate change. The effects of environmental variability and change on toothfish population dynamics and ... productivity are largely unknown and are difficult to predict given our current understanding of the Southern ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-18/22 : Author(s): M. Pinkerton, A. Dunn, S. Mormede and S. Parker

2. Uncertainty in reported geographical distribution and weight of krill catches from Norwegian krill fishing vessels operating continuous fishing systems

   of actions that would facilitate further consideration and clarification of these technical issues ... the outcome of the action steps including onboard experiments and analyses of historical catch data ... . Experiments on board ‘Saga Sea’ showed that there is an average delay of approximately 9 minutes between the ... relative standard deviation of 8-29% should be expected depending on vessel and specific holding tank ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/22 : Author(s): G. Skaret, T. Knutsen, F. Grebstad and O.A. Bergstad

3. DETECTION OF COLD SEEPS AND HYDROTHERMAL VENTS

   Abstract:  Cold seeps and hydrothermal vents can be detected by a number of oceanographic and ... geophysical techniques as well as the recovery of characteristic organisms. While the definitive ... identification of a seep or vent and its accompanying fauna is seldom unequivocal without significant effort. We ... suggest an approach to identifying associated VMEs in the CCAMLR region that uses the results of ...

   Meeting Document : WS-VME-09/09 : Author(s): Logan, G., O’Brien, P.E., Rollet, N., Kennard, J., Jones, A.

4. Estimating abundance of Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia

   Abstract:  This paper presents a description of the statistical approach developed to estimate ... abundance of Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia. The estimate is based on photographic counts of all the ... total population size carrying over multiple sources of uncertainty from estimates of proportions of ... Kingdom) Title:  Estimating abundance of Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia Approval:  Approved ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/09 : Author(s): J. Forcada, I.J. Staniland, A.R. Martin, A.G. Wood and P.N. Trathan (United Kingdom)

5. Report on the survey in Subarea 48.2 in 2015 (the first year of the planned 3-year-old investigations)

   longliner SIMEIZ. 29 sets were completed during the survey. Altogether 157 specimens of Dissostichus mawsoni ... and 21 specimens of Dissostichus eleginoides were tagged.  124 otolith pairs of Dissostichus mawsoni ... and 87- Dissostichus eleginoides were collected. The average sizes of  Dissostichus mawsoni  from the ... catches made up about 156 cm. Investigated maturity stages and stomach composition of Dissostichus spp ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/43 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegation of Ukraine

6. Report on implications of meeting schedules

   Abstract:  This paper provides the background essential to an informed evaluation of the financial ... and other consequences attached to various schedules and locations for the holding of meetings of the ... Working Group for Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (WG-EMM). It is concluded that the holding of WG-EMM ... probably have serious consequences for the work of the Scientific Committee as a whole. Other possible ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XIX/07 : Author(s): Chair of the CCAMLR Scientific Committee

7. Technical Specifications of Fish Heaven: version 2.1.5

   Abstract:  These are the technical specifications of the software Fish Heaven: version 2.1.5. The ... specifications include a description of the object structure of the model, the process structure of the model and ... a mathematical description of the model. Author(s):  Ball, I. Title:  Technical Specifications of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-04/15 : Author(s): Ball, I.

8. On the problem of fish tagging

   Abstract:  Data on bottom trawl catch of tagged fish are presented as well as results of tagging ... of some Antarctic fish in Subarea 88.1. Use of marked trawl hooks as an additional method of fish ... tagging is proposed for discussion. Author(s):  V.G. Prutko (Ukraine) Title:  On the problem of fish ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/50 : Author(s): V.G. Prutko (Ukraine)

9. Preliminary results on the diet of the snow petrel Pagodroma nivea at Laurie Island, Antarctica, during the 1997/98 breeding season

   Abstract:  The diet of the Snow Petrel Pagodroma nivea was investigated at Laurie Island, South ... Orkney Islands, (60¡46'S, 44¡42'W), Antarctica, over the period January-February of 1998 ... . Stomach contents and regurgitates of adults were sampled during the chick-rearing period. Fish, followed ... further studies on the composition of the diet of the Snow Petrel as well as on the distribution and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/11 : Author(s): G. Soave, V. Ferretti, N. Coria and R. Casaux (Argentina)

10. A comparison between the estimated density of krill from an acoustic survey with that obtained by scientific nets on the same survey

    Abstract:  This work presents the initial comparative analysis of acoustic and net haul krill ... part of a hydroacoustic biomass survey for Antarctic krill in CCAMLR Division 58.4.1. The acoustic ... found between the two data sets. Several orders of magnitudes were seen in the range of variation ... , excluding sites where krill represented less than 90% of the catch. This reduction in variation was thus ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/43 : Author(s): Pauly, T., Higginbottom, I., Hosie, G., de la Mare, W.K., Nicol, S.

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