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1. Domain 1 Marine Protected Area Preliminary Proposal – PART C: Biodiversity Analysis by MPA zones

   Doman 1; while some of them occupy very small areas –such as polynyas– others extend over larger areas ... for almost 90% of the conservation objects, including the protection for all the areas considered to ... be important for birds, mammals and fishes. The proposed MPA fulfils the level of protection agreed ... by the international community for Domain 1. Substantial reductions of this MPA could potentially ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-17/25 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegations of Argentina and Chile

2. Developing and applying a general abundance estimator for land-based predator surveys: Adélie penguins as a case study

   Abstract:  The development of a general estimator of abundance would facilitate a standardised ... approach to regional and circum-Antarctic surveys of land-based predators. Such a generalised estimator is ... outlined, and its applicability illustrated by adapting it to the specific problem of estimating the ... abundance of Adélie penguins at regional scales in Antarctica, given a range of logistical scenarios and ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/56 : Author(s): C. Southwell (Australia)

3. Fishery information for WG-FSA-03

   Abstract:  Summary information on CCAMLR fisheries of relevance to the work of WG-FSA is presented ... (summaries of observer data), SC-CAMLR-XXII/BG/1 (catches in the Convention Area) SC-CAMLR-XXII/BG/9 (summary ... of notification for new and exploratory fisheries), SCIC-03/5 (estimates of IUU catches) and CCAMLR ... -XXII/BG/8 (implementation of conservation measures). Author(s):  Secretariat Title:  Fishery ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-03/6 : Author(s): Secretariat

4. CCAMLR fishery information 2011

   Abstract:  Summary of fishery-related information for WG-FSA including availability of data ... , catches of target and by-catch species in assessed and exploratory fisheries, tagging rates and the tag ... overlap statistic, notifications (fisheries, research and VMEs), development of species profiles and ... findings of the review of CCAMLR’s data management systems. Where applicable, the 2011 draft fishery ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-11/08 : Author(s): Secretariat

5. Are tagging targets set in appropriate terms?

   is set in terms of the number of fish tagged per mass of fish caught thereby mixing “units” of ... that defining the target in terms of a percentage of the number caught may be more appropriate. Author ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-12/25 : Author(s): R.W. Leslie and C. Heinecken (South Africa)

6. Monitoring and management in the Antarctic – making the link between science and policy

   Abstract:  Management of human impacts in the Antarctic requires an effective system of monitoring ... to provide information about the process being managed and the effectiveness of management actions ... . Human impacts arise as a result of processes that originate in the region (endogenous) and those that ... originate outside the region (exogenous). A number of monitoring programmes have been established in both ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/P9 : Author(s): K. Reid (United Kingdom)

7. Depletion-based stock reduction analysis: a catch-based method for determining sustainable yields for data-poor fish stocks

   for data-poor fisheries in cases where approximate catches are known from the beginning of ... -Reduction Analysis with Depletion-Corrected Average Catch. Data requirements include estimates of historical ... specified based on general fishery knowledge of the relative location of maximum productivity and the ... relationship of MSY fishing rate to the natural mortality rate. This leaves unfished biomass as the only ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-11/P2 : Author(s): E.J. Dick and A.D. McCall

8. Potential VMEs around Elephant and the South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1)

   in the South Shetland Islands area.  High biomass densities of VME indicator taxa, meeting the 10 kg ... ascidians) such that communities of many ‘light’ VME taxa have little to no chance of meeting this criterion ... types of communities where sponges and other heavy taxa occur.  A clear example can be made of CITES ... high biomass-density station and even large colonies of which weigh relatively little.  After applying ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/51 : Author(s): S.J. Lockhart (USA), N. Wilson (Australia) and E. Lazo-Wasem (USA)

9. Rajid by-catch in the longline fishery for toothfish in Subarea 48.3

   preliminary analysis of data collected by UK scientific observers on vessels fishing toothfish in Subarea 48.3 ... from April to July 1999. The overall average catch rate of rays was 0.7/thousand hooks, compared with ... models demonstrated that there are significant differences between the catch rates of rays for different ... vessels, areas, and depths in Subarea 48.3. Some vessels, fishing on the northern shelf edges of both Shag ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-99/40 : Author(s): D.J. Agnew, J. Taylor and I. Everson (United Kingdom)

10. Climate change and precautionary spatial protection: seasonal sea ice

    little changed by human activities, particularly by the impacts (either direct or indirect) of marine ... harvesting. If CCAMLR is to embrace the wider implications of climate change in the context of ecosystem ... change, both in the presence of and absence of harvesting. We therefore recommend that locations ... currently covered by seasonal sea ice (as of 2011) could be considered for creation as restricted use Marine ...

    Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/18 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan and S.M. Grant (UK)

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