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1. Light-mantled sooty albatross on Campbell Island, 1995–96: a pilot investigation

   conducted on western Campbell Island in November 1995. An extrapolation from 292 nests counted on 19 km of ... coastline, more than 77 seen on offshore islands, and 32 found in four inland areas, suggests that there ... were at least 1600 nests on the island in 1995-96. Standard vantage points were established for future ... index counts. Sixty nests were monitored, and 50% were still successfully rearing chick in January ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVII/BG/09 : Author(s): Delegation of New Zealand

2. Population variability of biological parameters of penguins along the Antarctic Peninsula

   parameters and factors affecting penguins biology along the Antarctic Peninsula is presented in order to ... contribute to the general knowledge of penguin biological variation, to generate a data baseline in the ... parameters, higher abundance of ectoparasites and a higher stress in northern populations. Contaminant levels ... and genotoxic damage are associated with human activity mostly located in the northern populations as ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-2019/72 : Author(s): A. Barbosa

3. Does the current South Georgia groundfish survey accurately estimate the standing stock of mackerel icefish?

   Abstract:  In subarea 48.3 mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) are currently assessed by a ... the icefish biomass is in midwater and therefore missed by the bottom trawl survey. In January 2004, a ... short acoustic survey on FPRV Dorada showed that mackerel icefish, of all age classes, spend time in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-04/20 : Author(s): Agnew, D., Goss, C., Xavier, J., Belchier, M., Collins, M., Reid, K.

4. An ecosystem-based approach to management: using individual behaviour to predict the indirect effects of Antarctic krill fisheries on penguin foraging

   Abstract:  1. Changes in species’ abundance and distributions caused by human disturbances can ... have indirect effects on other species in a community. Although ecosystem approaches to management are ... conditions on these interactions. In this study, we extended a behavioural model used previously to ... penguin foraging success and behaviour in adjacent breeding sites. 3. Increased fishing pressure offshore ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/34 : Author(s): S.H. Alonzo, P.V. Switzer and M. Mangel (USA)

5. PREDICTING SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS FROM MUSEUM AND HERBARIUM RECORDS USING MULTI-RESPONSE MODELS FITTED WITH MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES

   methods for using these data. Such methods must, in particular, accommodate the difficulties caused by ... models (GAMs) that are commonly and successfully used in modelling species distributions, but has ... particular advantages in its analytical speed and the ease of transfer of analysis results to other ... dominant environmental drivers of variation in species composition. We use data from 226 species from six ...

   Meeting Document : WS-VME-09/P02 : Author(s): Elith, J., Leathwick, J.

6. ECOSYSTEM SERVICES OF THE SOUTHERN OCEAN

   resources, and the regulation of global climate and sea level. Assessing ecological processes in terms of ... the Southern Ocean ecosystem is generally under-represented in assessments of ecosystem services at ... making processes within the ATS are in many ways pre-adapted to deliver evidence-based policy which takes ... gathering work which has been conducted to support decision making in the Antarctic context could relatively ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/21 : Author(s): S.M. Grant, S.L. Hill and P.N. Trathan (UK)

7. Some aspects of size composition dynamics of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) from the Ross Sea (Statistical Subarea 88.1)

   mawsoni) from catches in different statistical areas of the Ross Sea was given. Biological data for two ... fishery periods were selected for comparison: 2003-2005 and 2008-2012. It allowed estimating changes in ... both periods of the fishery, in the southern statistical areas (SSRU H, I, K, L), the portion of small ... -sized immature fish had increased though the average size of fish in catches had not changed ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/17 : Author(s): A.K. Zaytsev (Ukraine)

8. The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS): an update

   (SOOS), noting in particular the importance of the SOOS to the work of CCAMLR and the key role of CCAMLR ... in implementation of the SOOS, for example through the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Programme (CEMP ... Science and Implementation Strategy will be published in October 2011, an International Project Office has ... recently been established, hosted by the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart, Australia ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXX/BG/13 : Author(s): A joint submission by SCAR and SCOR

9. CHARACTERISING KRILL FISHERY DYNAMICS USING A RANDOM WALK MODEL

   fishable target concentrations showed differences between Subareas with targets in Subarea 48.1 being most ... tonnes/hour and 7 tonnes/hour in autumn in Area 48.1. Fishers seemed to be forced to make a number of ... season since generally less searching seemed to be required due to higher target density in the fishing ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/18 : Author(s): S. Kawaguchi, S. Candy and A. Constable (Australia)

10. Age-length key for Champsocephalus gunnari from Subarea 48.3; Holmberg survey, February 1995

    on the readings of otoliths collected during the R/V Holmberg survey in February 1995. Small and ... medium sized fish (total length 12-34 cm) predominated in the samples at South Georgia, while larger ... Rocks respectively. At South Georgia, a good agreement between modes in the size distribution and mean ... are in line with previous results. Author(s):  Casaux, R., Marschoff, E., Barrera-Oro, E. Title:  Age ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-95/37 : Author(s): Casaux, R., Marschoff, E., Barrera-Oro, E.

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