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1. REVIEW OF CCAMLR ACTIVITIES ON MONITORING MARINE DEBRIS IN THE CONVENTION AREA

   Abstract:  CCAMLR Members monitor beached debris, entanglement of marine mammals, marine debris ... associated with seabird colonies and animals contaminated with hydrocarbons at a number of sites, primarily ... in Area 48. Overall non-fishing debris items (mostly packaging items) have made up the majority of ... debris reported from monitoring sites. Relatively large amounts of fishing items have been reported at ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/09 : Author(s): Secretariat

2. Report of the UK Groundfish Survey at South Georgia (CCAMLR Subarea 48.3) in January/February 2019

   Abstract:  The UK undertook a bottom trawl survey of CCAMLR sub-Area 48.3 on the FV Sil between ... the 27thth January and 5th February 2019. A total of 73 random and representative hauls were completed ... covering depths of between 108 and 352m. Overall biomass of mackerel icefish, Chamsocephalus gunnari, was ... calculated at 50,897 tonnes with a lower 1-sided 95% interval estimate of 30,288 tonnes. This is lower than ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-2019/20 : Author(s): S. Gregory, P. Hollyman, T. Earl, A. Clement, J. Visagie, L. Featherstone and M. Belchier

3. Penguin foraging behavior in relation to the distribution of prey

   Abstract:  The diving behavior of 7 chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) (N=12,171 dives ... ) was measured concurrently with a hydroacoustic assessment of the vertical distribution and abundance ... of their primary prey, krill (Euphausia superba) in the vicinity of Seal Island, South Shetland ... migration pattern, being dispersed in the upper portion of the water column at night and more concentrated ...

   Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-93/47 : Author(s): D.A. Croll, R.P. Hewitt, D.A. Demer and J.K. Jansen (USA)

4. Physical oceanographic setting of the Siedlecki January 1987, South Shetland Island data set

   Abstract:  In the vicinity of the northern tip of Antarctic Peninsula, the Bransfield Straits and ... Pacific Ocean. A series of fronts form which collectively are referred to as the Weddell-Scotia Confluence ... a zone of varied width (10 to 100 Km) of water which can best be considered as continental margin ... water, advected into the region along the extreme western edge of the Weddell Gyre. It is relatively ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VII/BG/19 : Author(s): United States of America

5. A methodology for estimating total finfish by-catch of the Area 48 krill fishery

   bycatch of the Area 48 krill fishery and quantify the impact of bycatch on the finfish stocks using data ... . Estimates of bycatch rates per tonne of catch were made at a family level for Channichthyidae, Nototheniidae ... rates were applied to estimates of krill catch to estimate precautionary total bycatch numbers of each ... and Notothenia rossii were used to convert total bycatch numbers to biomass at age of 50% maturity ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/29 : Author(s): T. Peatman, S.M. Martin (United Kingdom), O.R. Godø (Norway) and R.C. Wakeford (United Kingdom)

6. Progress report on the research longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Subarea 48.6 being jointly undertaken by Japan and South Africa: 2012/13

   so far they have concentrated their sampling effort in the southern section (south of 60˚S), where ... they caught a total of 162.8 tonnes of Dissostichus spp. out of the 200 tonne catch limit (Table 2 ... ). They have taken only 65.2 tonnes of Dissostichus spp. from the northern section to date. A total of 1 ... tagging rate of 5 fish per ton. A total of 213 D. eleginoides and 5 530 D. mawsoni) were measured. The ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-13/05 : Author(s): R. Leslie (South Africa), K. Taki, T. Ichii (Japan) and S. Somhlaba (South Africa)

7. MULTIPLE TIME SCALES OF VARIABILITY IN THE KRILL POPULATION AT SOUTH GEORGIA

   Abstract:  The South Georgia region supports a high biomass of krill that is the subject to high ... inter-annual variability. The lack of a self-sustaining krill population at South Georgia means that ... ecosystem-based management of any krill fishery in the region. Krill acoustic density data from surveys ... conducted in the early, middle and late period of the summers of 2001 to 2005, together with krill ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/48 : Author(s): K. Reid, J. Watkins, E. Murphy, P. Trathan, S. Fielding and P. Enderlein (United Kingdom)

8. Preliminary study on the breedings of chinstrap and gentoo penguins at Barton Peninsula, King George Island

   Abstract:  A preliminary survey on 2 species of penguins, chinstrap and gentoo was made in the ... CCAMLR standard method. A total of 96 nests for chinstraps and 121 nests for gentoos were monitored to ... document breeding chronology and give a measure of breeding success. The nests to be monitored were ... change in the nest content were followed. Chicks were hatched out at 50% of the monitored nests on 18 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-93/23 : Author(s): H.-C. Shin and S. Kim (Republic of Korea)

9. SUMMER SURVEY OF FUR SEALS AT PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN

   Abstract:  The onshore distributions and the abundances of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus ... the entire south-west coast of Prince Edward Island. Of the two colonies of Antarctic fur seals, the ... colony among Subantarctic fur seals north of Boggel Beach remained small, with increased numbers of ... remained free of Subantarctic fur seals and had expanded at a mean intrinsic rate of natural increase of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P15 : Author(s): M.N. Bester, P.G. Ryan and J. Visagie

10. Distribution of the Soviet fishing fleet and catches (CPUE) in Subdivision 48.3 during 1986–1990

    Abstract:  Analysis of the fishing fleet operation is one of preconditions of krill fishery small ... -scale management units determination. In this work the available data of haul by haul catch statistics ... along the outside periphery of the doubling off- Island current of anticyclone pattern at the points of ... current (the western ground). Temporal-spatial variability of these grounds has been analyzed. The eastern ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/63 Rev. 1 : Author(s): V.A. Sushin, P.C. Gasiukov, A.V. Zimin and S.M. Kasatkina (Russia)

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