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1. A proposal for the establishment of a Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area

   Abstract:  The delegations of New Zealand and the United States submit this revised proposal for ... the establishment by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ... (Commission or CCAMLR) of a marine protected area (MPA) in the Ross Sea Region (“Ross Sea Region Marine ... resources; maintain ecosystem structure and function; protect vital ecosystem processes and areas of ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXII/27 : Author(s): Delegations of New Zealand and the USA

2. Research plan for the 2015/16 exploratory longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Division 58.4.3a

   Abstract:  The current season (2014/15) is the final one of the first three-season research which ... by all effective vessels were analyzed for the improvement of stock assessment in the research blocks ... estimator was largely different from that using the CPUE method. Predicted numbers of tag recaptures from ... during 2013-14 seasons. Understanding of the resource structure through clarification of their life ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-15/03 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan

3. Monitoring variability and change in the plankton communities of the Scotia Sea through Continuous Plankton Recorder surveys

   Abstract:  The northern regions of the Scotia Sea demonstrate notable variability in environmental ... conditions, particularly in the location of the Polar Front. This has a strong influence on patterns of ... productivity and distribution of plankton, with implications to higher trophic levels, including harvested ... species. The long-term impact of environmental variability on plankton species composition and abundance ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/29 : Author(s): G.A. Tarling, M.Z. Wootton, D.G. Johns, T.D. Jonas, E.J. Murphy and P. Ward

4. Distribution, density and relative abundance of Antarctic krill estimated by maximum likelihood geostatistics on acoustic data collected during commercial fishing operations

   regular scientific monitoring of the resource. Recently, however, the Commission for the Conservation of ... Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) has initialised a process to make use of acoustic data from commercial ... fisheries to increase the amount of relevant information available for making management decisions. We here ... provide an example where 34 days of acoustic data, collected during commercial krill fishing operations on ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/P12 : Author(s): E.J. Niklitschek and G. Skaret

5. Distribution and diet of juvenile Patagonian toothfish on the South Georgia and Shag Rocks shelves (Southern Ocean)

   Abstract:  The distribution and diet of juvenile (<750 mm) Patagonian toothfish are described ... from 4 annual trawl surveys (2003-06) around the island of South Georgia in the Atlantic sector of the ... Southern Ocean. Recruitment of toothfish varies inter-annually, and a single large cohort dominated during ... the four years surveyed. Most juveniles were caught on the Shag Rocks shelf to the NW of South Georgia ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/P4 : Author(s): M.A. Collins, K.A. Ross, M. Belchier, K. Reid. (Mar. Biol., 152: 135–147 (2007)).

6. Histopathology of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) bearing black spots

   onboard a krill fishing vessel in the winter of 2003 and 2006 in the South Georgia region, the Antarctic ... Ocean, approximately 2-5% of sub-samples of 100 krill bore small black spots. The black spots were most ... often found on the cephalothorax of the body. Three bacteria were isolated from these black spots, and ... classified into either Psychrobacter or Pseudoalteromonas by the sequences of 16S rRNA genes. Histological ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/29 : Author(s): S. Miwa, T. Kamaishi, T. Matsuyama, T. Hayashi and M. Naganobu (Japan)

7. Trends in bird and seal populations as indicators of a system shift in the Southern Ocean

   components is poorly understood because of the difficulty of obtaining long-term data sets on marine ... organisms. The Southern Ocean plays a critical role on global climate and there is growing evidence of ... a time lag of 2–9 years with temperatures, the population size of most seabirds and seals monitored ... . These changes, together with the indications of a simultaneous decrease in secondary production in sub ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/53 : Author(s): H. Weimerskirch, P. Inchausti, C. Guinet and C. Barbraud (France)

8. Community Structure of copepods in epipelagic layers in the Ross Sea and neighboring waters

   Abstract:  During the 9th research cruise of the R/V Kaiyo-maru, copepod samples were collected ... groups by cluster analysis based on species abundance and composition. Group 1 located in the north of ... the Southern Boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current was characterized by high abundance (157.5 ... -2279.5; mean 610.5 inds. 1000 m-3) and dominance of Rhincalanus gigas (mean 88.4%). Group 2 located off ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/36 : Author(s): Y. Watanabe, S. Sawamoto, T. Ishimaru and M. Naganobu (Japan)

9. Analysis of the longline fishery data in the Ross Sea (SSRUs 881B, C and G)

   Abstract:  The analysis of the toothfish fishery data in the northern part of the Ross Sea (SSRU ... -2015.  The variability of catch per haul (kg) and CPUE (kg/1000 hooks) depending on the hauling ... possible presence of  number of high CPUE and catches, which are outside the  upper limit of confidence ... interval of 99,7% CI. These CPUE and catch values are statistically unreliable and questionable high with ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-16/14 : Author(s): S. Kasatkina

10. Experience with seabird by-catch limits in a trial of longline fishing in the Macquarie Island toothfish fishery

    trial of longline fishing in the Macquarie Island toothfish (Dissostichus spp.) fishery, which lies just ... discharge, night setting only, use of integrated weight longlines (CCAMLR standard); paired streamer lines ... of species with a different limit for each group. The groupings reflected the varying conservation ... status of the seabird populations breeding on and foraging around Macquarie Island, and the vulnerability ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/19 : Author(s): T. Hewitt and I. Hay (Australia)

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