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1. Beach debris survey Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, 1998/99

   was the highest since 1996/97 and showed an increase of 86% compared to the previous year. The total mass of items ... 1996/97 and showed an increase of 86% compared to the previous year. The total mass of items recovered ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XVIII/BG/7 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

2. Otolith elemental signatures reveal habitat shift of Electrona carlsbergi

   of sub-Antarctic zone and spend the first year of life in this region. Those individuals move across ... and spend the first year of life in this region. Those individuals move across different fronts ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/65 : Author(s): L. Wei and G.P. Zhu

3. Summary of the work of the CEP on Marine Protected Areas

   topic of Marine Protected Areas (MPA’s) in discussions of the Committee for Environmental Protection ... (CEP) since 1998.  The most important discussions, including active cooperation with CCAMLR, began in ... interests in spatial marine protection and concluded that issues relating to spatial protection and ... preclude the development by the CEP of ASPAs and ASMAs which have in whole or in part a marine component ...

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/04 : Author(s): Antarctic Treaty Secretariat, c/o Dr P. Penhale, CEP Representative to the CCAMLR MPA Workshop

4. Regionalisation of the Southern Ocean: a statistical framework

   regions and/or ecoregions) in order to better understand the relative importance of ecosystem processes or ... for the purposes of managing human activities in relatively ecologically discrete areas ... . In this paper, we demonstrate a method developed for a regionalisation of the southern Indian Ocean ... in order to facilitate the development of ecosystem models for the area. Here, we extend this work to ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/37 : Author(s): B. Raymond and A. Constable (Australia)

5. Krill fishery report: 2010 update

   (China, Japan, Korea, Norway, Poland, Russia) have fished in Area 48. The total catch reported to May ... total catch of krill for the season is 150000-180000 t. In 2008/09, five Members fished for krill in ... largest catch of krill was taken from SSMU SOW (South Orkney West) in Subarea 48.2 (89184 t), and the ... remainder of the catch was taken predominantly in Subarea 48.1, notably 19691 t from SSMU APBSE (Antarctic ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/05 : Author(s): Secretariat

6. A spatial multi-species operating model of the Antarctic Peninsula krill fishery and its impacts on land-breeding

   -predator-fishery dynamics is described. This has been developed in response to requests for scientific ... management units (SSMUs) in the Scotia Sea, to reduce the potential impact of fishing on land-based predators ... . SMOM has been revised from the original version presented in Plagányi and Butterworth (2006a) in three ... main ways: 1) Accounting for seasonality; 2) Explicitly modelling fish and whales in addition to ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-07/12 : Author(s): É.E. Plagányi and D.S. Butterworth (South Africa)

7. Report of the Steering Committee for the WG-EMM Workshop on Plausible Ecosystem Models for Testing Approaches to Krill Management

   “Workshop on plausible ecosystem models for testing approaches to krill management” in preparation for the ... different management approaches to underlying uncertainties in the ecological, fishery, monitoring and ... assessment systems. As agreed at WG-EMM in 2003, intersessional activities have included (i) provision of ... advice on the potential contributions from experts in preparation for the workshop and in participating ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/25

8. Report on a tuna long-lining fishing voyage aboard Southern Venture to observe seabird by-catch problems

   birds survived hooking in this study because of the lighter gear and quicker recovery of the long-line ... (about 6 hours between beginning the set and beginning hauling-in). Petrels, particularly Cape Pigeons ... % of bait-takes resulted in a bird being hooked. The mollymawk was hooked at night near full moon, but ... under thick cloud. Most bait-takes occurred in daylight, particularly before dusk. The vessel's ...

   Meeting Document : WG-IMALF-94/10 : Author(s): M.J. Imber (New Zealand)

9. DEVELOPMENT OF A METHODOLOGY FOR DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT

   biological sampling data from a fishing trip. In particular these measures aim to quantify the prevalence of ... assist in assessing which data from a trip should be used in an assessment, and can also guide how these ... is fitted in an assessment model.The data quality measures illustrate sometimes substantial variation ... in the quality of particular data sets from different trips in the Ross Sea Antarctic toothfish ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-08/13 : Author(s): D.A.J. Middleton and A. Dunn (New Zealand)

10. A critical issue for feedback management – how do we determine the level of functional overlap between krill fishing operations and penguin foraging activity?

    Abstract:  The spatial distribution of the Antarctic krill fishery in Subareas 48.1 to 48.3 has ... changed over time. The majority of catches in Subarea 48.1 are now taken south of the South Shetland ... Islands, following regional decreases in seasonal sea-ice cover. As the cumulative spatial footprint of ... target the same type types of krill swarms in the same places). In contrast to Subarea 48.1, the fishery ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/11 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan, J.R.D. Silk, S.L. Hill (United Kingdom) and H.J. Lynch (USA)

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