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1. FIRST EXPERIMENTAL SETTINGS OF DEEPWATER VERTICAL LONGLINES IN THE ANTARCTIC TOOTHFISH FISHERY DISSOSTICHUS MAWSONI NORMAN, 1937 (PERCIFORMES, NOTOTHENIIDAE) IN THE AMUNDSEN SEA

   Abstract:  For the first time in the history of deepwater longline fishing on Antarctic toothfish ... Dissostichus mawsoni (Norman, 1937) the experimental settings of deepwater vertical longlines was made from the ... Russian longliner Yantar in March, 2008 in the Amundsen Sea (subarea 88.2,D of the Pacific sector). The ... experiments proved that this species, one of the most valuable large commercial species of the South Ocean ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-09/08 : Author(s): N.V. Kokorin (Russia) and V.V. Serbin (Ukraine)

2. Options for allocating the precautionary catch limit of krill among small-scale management units in the Scotia Sea

   Abstract:  With the intent of stimulating discussion, we present four options for subdividing the ... precautionary catch limit of krill for Area 48 into the small-scale management units (SSMU) adopted at CCAMLR ... -XXI. The first three are static allocations: the first is proportional to estimated predator demand in ... each SSMU; the second is proportional to the estimated standing stock of krill in each SSMU; and the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/36 : Author(s): R.P. Hewitt, G. Watters (USA) and P.N. Trathan (United Kingdom)

3. Status of the FIBEX acoustic data from the west Atlantic

   Abstract:  Data from the FIBEX acoustic survey in the West Atlantic sector have been re-examined ... to check the consistency of krill abundance estimates derived from different survey vessels. There is ... a good level of consistency between the results from four of the vessels, Itzumi, Dr Eduardo L ... Holmberg, Odysee and Walther Herwig. While there is an error factor due to the combination of data ...

   Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-93/31 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan and I. Everson (United Kingdom)

4. THE ASAM 2010 ASSESSMENT OF KRILL BIOMASS FOR AREA 48 FROM THE SCOTIA SEA CCAMLR 2000 SYNOPTIC SURVEY

   Abstract:  In June 2010 the CCAMLR ASAM working group examined the acoustic methodology applied to ... the CCAMLR 2000 synoptic survey data to generate a quality checked krill biomass for area 48 following ... the acoustic protocol identified in ASAM 2009. The total biomass of krill in the Scotia Sea was ... estimated from acoustic and net data collected during the international multi-ship krill biomass in the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/20 : Author(s): S. Fielding and J. Watkins (UK) and ASAM participants: A. Cossio, C. Reiss and G. Watters (USA), L. Calise and G. Skaret (Norway), Y. Takao (Japan), X. Zhao (People’s Republic of China), D. Agnew (UK) and D. Ramm and K. Reid (CCAMLR Secretariat)

5. The Secretariat review of the Strategic Plan, associated activities and outcomes

   Abstract:  At CCAMLR-XXIX, the Commission recommended that a staffing and salary strategy be ... included in the review of the Secretariat’s Strategic Plan and that SCAF consider the outcomes of that ... at last year’s meetings of WG-SAM and WG-FSA the Commission adopted a recommendation from the ... Scientific Committee (SC-CAMLR-XXIX, paragraph 14.2) that a review of the Secretariat’s data management ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-11/09 : Author(s): Secretariat

6. Update on the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP)

   Abstract:  The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) entered into force ... on Sunday 1 February 2004. Six countries (Australia, New Zealand, Ecuador, Spain, the Republic of ... South Africa, and the United Kingdom) have ratified the Agreement, and another five have signed it ... (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France and Peru). ACAP is expected to provide a major boost for the conservation ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/51 : Author(s): B. Baker and T. Hewitt (Australia)

7. Assessing the feasibility of regional surveys of land-based predator abundance in the Southern Ocean: a framework for decision making and planning

   Abstract:  In 2000 WG-EMM discussed the need for region-wide and circum-Antarctic estimates of ... abundance of land-based predators. At the 2001 meeting of WG-EMM it was proposed that a workshop be held in ... 2002 to assess the feasibility of such broad-scale surveys, and a small intersessional correspondence ... group was formed to scope out the terms of reference and method of operation for the workshop. The ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/45 : Author(s): C. Southwell (Australia)

8. Some aspects of the relation between Antarctic krill abundance and CPUE measures in the Japanese krill fishery. (Component of SC-CAMLR-VI/BG/4)

   Abstract:  The history of the Japanese krill fishery is reviewed briefly. Important aspects of the ... fishing operation are the constraints imposed by processing rate limitations on the vessels, and product ... quality considerations- in particular the increasing tendency to avoid catching "green” krill. These ... . During the high season, Catch-per-Towing-Time seems likely to index only within-swarm density. Search ...

   Meeting Document : WS-KCPUE-89/03 : Author(s): D.S. Butterworth (South Africa)

9. The Use of Penguin Stomachal Contents for the Simultaneous Study of Prey and Predator Parameters

   Abstract:  Penguins selectivity for krill size is shown as highly sensitive to the statistical ... assumptions made in the analysis of data. Nested designs are proposed as the correct approach because lack of ... independence between krill found in the stomach of a given penguin prevents the pooling of krill lengths from ... different samples. Samples taken at Bahía Esperanza are used to illustrate the different approaches. A ...

   Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-89/16 : Author(s): E. Marschoff and B. González (Argentina)

10. Preliminary assessment of the potential for the proposed bottom fishing activities to have significant adverse impact on vulnerable marine ecosystems

    Abstract:  The Secretariat has received a notification from the UK for exploratory fisheries for ... the potential for the proposed bottom fishing activities to have significant adverse impact on ... letter, the UK advised that the notification was intentionally submitted before the 25 July deadline so ... that the data enclosed will be available for discussion by WG-EMM in their consideration of VME impacts ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/33 : Author(s): United Kingdom

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