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1. DIRECT EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE ANTARCTIC KRILL FISHERY

   thought of as being indirect, for example through distributional changes of fish populations, changes in ... evidence of direct effects of the changing physical environment – the duration of sea ice cover- on the ... seasonal behaviour of the region’s largest fishery, that for Antarctic krill. Declining sea ice cover in ... the main krill fishing grounds has resulted in greater accessibility of krill stocks to the fishing ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/P06 : Author(s): S. Kawaguchi, S. Nicol and A.J. Press

2. Improving the process for the establishment of marine protected areas by CCAMLR and Antarctic Treaty Parties

   Abstract:  This paper examines the obligations upon the Commission for the Conservation of ... Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) and Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties (ATCPs) in respect of ... -operate in the establishment and implementation of MPAs in the Southern Ocean. It also examines the ... current process for declaring MPAs in the areas of application of the Antarctic Treaty and the Convention ...

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-05/09 : Author(s): Delegation of Australia

3. A spatial analysis of CEMP data in Area 48 to support work on feedback management in the krill fishery

   Abstract:  CEMP data from different sites in Area 48 were used to compare patterns of inter-annual ... variability as a function of the site location to examine the spatial scale over which CEMP data that have ... combined standardised indices (CSI) of summer CEMP parameters were generally positive and the patterns of ... inter-annual variability of sites in Subreas 48.1 showed an increased level of concordance in the period ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/09 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

4. By-catch of morid cods (Gadiformes: Moridae) in the CCAMLR area and adjacent areas during commercial fishing and research surveys

   distributions, size composition and abundance of morids in the CCAMLR and adjacent areas. The main goal is to ... detection of areas and depths of their aggregations, by reveal of presence/absence of spatial and vertical ... migrations and by study of their seasonal and multi-annual variations. Results will be used for preparation ... of conservation measures allowing for preservation these vulnerable by-catch species from irreparable ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-16/12 : Author(s): A. Orlov and I. Gordeev

5. An updated descriptive analysis of the toothfish (Dissostichus spp.) tagging program in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 for 2006/07

   Abstract:  Descriptive analyses of the toothfish tagging programme carried out in Subareas 88.1 ... and 88.2 since 2001 are updated. The paper provides a preliminary update of the tag-release and tag ... -recapture data that were presented at the October 2006 meeting of WG-FSA by including data from New Zealand ... previously were unavailable for about half of the non-New Zealand vessels for 2004 are now available and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-07/5 : Author(s): A. Dunn, S.M. Hanchet and S.L. Ballara (New Zealand)

6. Developing a carbon-budget trophic model of the Ross Sea, Antarctica: work in progress

   Abstract:  We report on the development of a carbon-budget trophic-model of the Ross Sea. We ... provisionally defined the food web of the Ross Sea as having the following functional compartments: birds, seals ... heterotrophs, water column zooplankton (ciliates, heterotrophic flagellates, mesozooplankton), three groups of ... column, ice, and benthic). The simple trophic model requires well over a hundred parameters, each of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/18 : Author(s): M. Pinkerton, S. Hanchet, J. Bradford-Grieve and P. Wilson (New Zealand)

7. Further development and progress towards evaluation of an Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) stock model for the Ross Sea

   Abstract:  This report outlines the development of a Bayesian sex and age structured population ... model for the assessment of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea (Subareas 88.1 ... and 88.2), and initial progress towards evaluation of spatially explicit models. Three model scenarios ... either two or three discrete areas, with migrations of fish between areas. The 2-area model appeared to ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-05/12 : Author(s): A. Dunn, D.J. Gilbert and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)

8. Population, breeding, diet and conservation of Crozet shag Phalacrocorax [atriceps] melanogenis at Marion Island, 1994/95 to 2002/03

   Abstract:  The number of Crozet shags or cormorants Phalacrocorax [atriceps] melanogenis breeding ... mean number of pairs at colonies also decreased and was significantly related to the overall number of ... birds breeding in any given season. The decreases coincided with a period of warming and reduced ... precipitation at Marion Island and with a decrease in the number of gentoo penguins Pygoscelis papua breeding ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/17 : Author(s): R.J.M. Crawford, J. Cooper, B.M. Dyer, A.C. Wolfaardt, D. Tshingana, K. Spencer, S.L. Petersen, J.L. Nel, D.G. Keith, C.L. Holness, B. Hanise, M.D. Greyling and M. du Toit (South Africa)

9. Report of the WG-FSA Intersessional Subgroup on Sampling Catches from Longlines

   ; 2) the allocation of observer effort within longline haul and between hauls; and 3) the allocation ... of observer effort directed toward fishery target species versus ecological interactions. Both ... activity by sampling every day of hauling. Both methods essentially follow a multi-stage cluster sampling ... fish/day, to sampling a set length of each line or number of hours of each day. The principal advantage ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/52

10. Revised proposal for a CCAMLR sponsored research survey to monitor abundance of pre-recruit Antarctic toothfish in the southern Ross Sea

    Abstract:  At its 2010 meeting, the Scientific Committee agreed that a time series of recruitments ... survey was presented to the 2011 meeting of WG-SAM. In this paper we provide an update of the preliminary ... proposal by taking into account the comments of WG-SAM. It provides the scientific rationale and background ... for the research proposal for a longline survey of pre-recruit toothfish in the southern Ross Sea ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-11/47 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet, S. Mormede, S.J. Parker and A. Dunn (New Zealand)

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