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1. The relationship between krill (Euphausia superba) fishing areas in the west Atlantic and the species’ circumpolar distribution

   which the bulk of the commercial krill catch has been taken. Correspondingly, the areas of the following ... four regions are also calculated- (a) the CCAMLR Convention Area, (b) south of 55°S, (c) containing ... krill concentrations and (d) south of the mean summer position of the 0°C isotherm using specialised ... global biomass for krill within each of the above four regions. Similarly, the maximum estimated krill ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-VIII/BG/19 : Author(s): Delegation of South Africa

2. Marine debris and fishing gear associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia, 1996/97

   Abstract:  In the fourth year of standardised recording of man-made debris associated with ... of nylon line thought to originate from trawlers (three items). The incidence of southern giant ... petrels involved with fishing gear (four items) is a four fold increase on previous reports. Levels of ... records for wandering albatrosses were halved compared to last year. Nevertheless evidence of continued ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XVI/BG/05 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

3. Adélie penguin breeder abundance in CCAMLR Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2

   predators of the Southern Ocean including ice-breeding seals, fur seals, penguins and flying seabirds. The ... other regions around Antarctica under the work program of WG-EMM-STAPP as a basis for management of ... future krill fisheries in those regions. We present here estimates of the breeding Adélie penguin ... population for Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2 in east Antarctica. We estimated that around 1.31 million pairs of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/09 : Author(s): C. Southwell, J. McKinlay, L. Emmerson (Australia), A. Takahashi (Japan), C. Barbraud, K. DeLord and H. Weimerskirch (France)

4. Update on the ABNJ Deep Seas Project

   Conservation of Deep-sea Living Marine Resources and Ecosystems in the Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction’ is a ... five year project designed to enhance sustainability in the use of deep-sea living resources and ... biodiversity conservation in the ABNJ through the systematic application of an ecosystem approach. The project ... project started in September 2014 and is one of four projects under the Common Oceans Program ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXIV/BG/25 : Author(s): FAO and CCAMLR Secretariats

5. Fish by-catch in the krill fishery: 2017 update

   ) and CCAMLR SISO data (20 766 hauls) up to 1 Sept 2017 was used to examine the frequency of occurrence ... , length-frequency distribution and geographic provenance of the key fish taxa reported. There is continued ... evidence of  an increase in the data quality from the observer scheme,  as well as an increase in the ... reporting of fish by-catch in the commercial krill fishery catch data. There was a high degree of overlap in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-17/04 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

6. Mackerel icefish size and age at South Georgia and Shag Rocks

   -frequency distribution of C. gunnari from 10 bottom trawl surveys at South Georgia and 9 at Shag Rocks ... (Spring). Mean total lengths (TL) of age-classes were determined for each year by examining length ... modality in the length-frequency distributions. Lengths of age-classes derived by these two methods were ... differences in mortality between localities. To compensate for variation in the time of surveys, the mean TL ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/7 : Author(s): A.W. North (United Kingdom)

7. Species profile for Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni)

   Abstract:  A toothfish species profile, covering aspects of the biology, fisheries and stock ... assessment of both toothfish species was completed by Everson (2002). Aspects of the biology of D. mawsoni ... documents to WG-FSA. The aim of the current work was to collate and summarise existing biological data on D ... most of the work has been carried out, but data from the other areas and fisheries have been included ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/26 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)

8. Current temperature conditions off South Georgia during recent years (satellite data on Subarea 48.3)

   Abstract:  Satellite monitoring of sea surface temperatures (SST) off South Georgia (Subarea 48.3 ... ) which includes both analysis of real-time data from vessels and buoy stations provides constant ... information on the temperature conditions of the area. Weekly SST maps constructed from GOES-E and Meteosat-7 ... daily satellite data are used to develop maps of mean monthly SST and SST anomalies. For quantitative ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/17 : Author(s): G.P. Vanyushin (Russia)

9. Extension to the krill-predator modelling exercise

   Abstract:  The krill-predator modelling calculations of Thomson and Butterworth (1995) are ... extended to take account of a number of the suggestions made at the 1995 meeting of the CCAMLR Working ... Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management. The resilience of the Antarctic fur seal population to ... krill harvesting is found to be strongly dependent on the estimate of the maximum annual growth rate (R ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/67 : Author(s): Thomson, R.B., Butterworth, D.S.

10. Preliminary results from a krill net sampling survey in CCAMLR Area 48.1 in 1989/90 season

    occurred NE and SE of Elephant Island, north of the South Shetland Islands, in the central Bransfield ... estimated stock biomass of 950,000 tonnes. The zooplankton, however, was dominated by salps in the entire ... region. The krill stock consisted of subadult and adult stages. Nain concentrations of gravid females ... were detected north of the South Shetland Islands. No spawning occurred in the Bransfield Strait and in ...

    Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-IX/BG/09 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegation of EEC

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