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

   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

2. Testing for genetic differentiation between two size classes of the starry skate (Amblyraja georgiana)

   Abstract:  Two size classes of A. georgiana have been described in by-catch fishing data reported ... in the catch data from the Ross Sea fisheries. We extracted DNA from A. georgiana samples from both ... size classes collected by Scientific Observers in the Ross Sea. We determined the DNA sequences of five ... among the samples of A. georgiana that were collected in the Ross Sea region, and the data did not ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/53 : Author(s): P. Ritchie and A. Fleming (New Zealand)

3. Steepness for Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) based on life history

   -recruitment relationship, it is deeply rooted in the biology of each species.  Furthermore, specifying ... points that are commonly used in fisheries management.  Thus, one cannot pick an arbitrary value of ... steepness in a stock assessment.  We take the first step towards a consistent treatment of steepness for ... estimates of steepness and their use in stock assessments. Author(s):  M. Mangel, J. Brodziak and G.M ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/32 : Author(s): M. Mangel, J. Brodziak and G.M. Watters (USA)

4. Proposed updates to CEMP data e-forms and a review of CEMP Standard Methods

   ensure consistency in data collection methodology. Updating these e-forms will also require an update to ... the method descriptions for these parameters in the  CEMP Standard Methods  manual. However, given the ... age of this document and that the last review of the manual was completed in 2004, the Secretariat ... proposes a review of the manual intersessionally by the CEMP e-group in order to ensure that it is meeting ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/46 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

5. Theoretical considerations for estimating the density of cohorts and mean recruitment of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) based on research trawl survey data

   assessing the long-term yield for toothfish fisheries in CCAMLR uses estimates of density of juvenile ... fishery. At the 2003 meeting of WG-FSA a number of inconsistencies were identified in the estimation of ... the recruitment series for Subarea 48.3. In light of this, the Scientific Committee agreed that there ... was an urgent need to review and revise the recruitment series for D.eleginoides in Subarea 48.3 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/92 : Author(s): C.R. Davies, E.M. van Wijk and A.J. Constable (Australia)

6. Second International Fishers Forum: executive summary Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council

   , 2002, in Honolulu, Hawaii. IFF2 built on the First International Fishers Forum (IFF1) held in Auckland ... , New Zealand in November 2000. IFF2 widened the focus of IFF1 to address the bycatch of sea turtles as ... , government agencies, non-governmental organizations and other interested parties from 28 countries in the ... Atlantic, East and Central Pacific, North Pacific and South Pacific participated in IFF2. The 4-day meeting ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/25

7. CCAMLR conservation measures: review of the numbering system

   numbers and Roman numerals. This system is simple, uniquely identifies each measure, and has been in use ... retained. The presentation of measures in the annually published Schedule of Conservation Measures in Force ... appropriate, the target species, area, season and fishing gear to which the measure applies. In addition, two ... new tables may be included in the schedule to indicate which measures applied to particular fisheries ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXI/15 : Author(s): Secretariat

8. Distribution of Antarctic krill concentrations exploited by Japanese krill trawlers and minke whates

   krill fishing and minke whaling (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) data was investigated in relation to bottom ... sectors. In early summer (December) the areas of operation for both fisheries were affected by the ... latitudinal position and shape of the pack-ice edge. Harvesting was frequently conducted in the vicinity of a ... more southerly positioned pack-ice edge. Whaling was also undertaken in the embayments created by the ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/31 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan

9. Antarctic fur seal population dynamics update and assessment of census error at SSSI No. 32, Livingston Island, South Shetlands, Antarctica (2000/2001)

   of Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, in the South Shetland Archipelago. Since all censuses ... was developed for assessing uncertainties in the estimates of the counts (inter and intra-observer ... identified and corresponded to beaches in which variation cannot be entirely attributed to inter-observer ... censuses in a considerable way. These factors should all be assessed and taken into account when ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/49 : Author(s): R. Hucke-Gaete (Chile)

10. EFFECT OF STERN-SETTING TUNNEL ON THE SINK RATE OF INTEGRATED WEIGHT LONGLINE (IWL)

    steel tube, built in to the longliner during a dry-dock refit. The tube angles downwards from where the ... line exits the baiting machine, which is positioned in the aft section of the stern setting deck, to ... longlines, conforming to the CCAMLR standard specified in conservation measure 24-02, is planned to be ... tested in a series of sets using time-depth recorders during current sea-trials and approximately three ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/38 : Author(s): I. Hay and G. Robertson (Australia)

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