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1. Updating the Antarctic krill biomass estimates for CCAMLR Subareas 48.1 to 48.4 using available data

   , based on data from scientific nets and covering the years between 2000 and 2011. The annual biomass ... variation was significant (CV=73%) but no systematic change in krill biomass was evident during the period ... . The index also suggests that realised exploitation rates were below 0.5% (i.e. catch was <0.5% of ... biomass) and that the potential exploitation rates implied by the operational catch limit (the trigger ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/28 : Author(s): S. Hill, A. Atkinson, C. Darby, S. Fielding (United Kingsom), B. Krafft, O.R. Godø, G. Skaret (Norway), P. Trathan, J. Watkins (United Kingdom)

2. Model-based mapping of assemblages for ecology and conservation management: A case study of demersal fish on the Kerguelen Plateau

   of Common Profile (RCP) to quantify and map the distribution of demersal fish assemblages in an ... ecologically significant region of the Southern Ocean to a) gain ecological and management insights and b ... ) evaluate the utility of the new method for ecoregionalisation. The RCP approach is a multi-species, model ... simultaneously groups sites with a similar composition of species and describes the patterns of variation in ...

   Meeting Document : WS-SM-18/P02 : Author(s): N.A. Hill, S.D. Foster, G. Duhamel, D. Welsford, P. Koubbi and C.R. Johnson

3. ON THE STUDY OF FECUNDITY AND EGGS SIZE OF ANTARCTIC TOOTHFISH DISSOSTICHUS MAWSONI NORMAN 1937

   Abstract:  The results of the microscopic analyses of the Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus ... mawsoni) fecundity and eggs size, caught in December-March the Pacific and Indian Ocean area of the ... Antarctica are presented. We analyzed the main reproductive characteristics which determinate the individual ... fecundity of the Antarctic toothfish: individual absolute fecundity by the largest oocytes, share of largest ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/35 : Author(s): S.V. Piyanova. A.F. Petrov and N.V. Kokorin (Russia)

4. Surface exchange between the Weddell and Scotia Seas

   Abstract:  Within Drake Passage, the southern flank of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC ... ) hosts the ventilation of deep water, the injection of Antarctic shelf waters and interactions between ... westward and eastward boundary cur rents. This exchange is explored through the trajectories of forty ... surface drifters released in January 2012 in the northwestern Weddell Sea. The drifters detail Lagrangian ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/P03 : Author(s): A.F. Thompson and M.K. Youngs

5. A characterisation of the toothfish fishery in Subarea 48.6 from 2003/04 to 2011/12

   Abstract:  We analysed the available data from vessel and scientific observer logbooks from the ... ) in CCAMLR subarea 48.6 (South East Atlantic). This report summarises the catch, effort, timing, depth ... , location, size structure and maturity of Dissostichus spp.  Information on the composition of  bycatch ... species caught in the fishery over the period 2003-4 to 2011-12 are also presented. For the Antarctic ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-12/33 : Author(s): R. Wiff (Chile), M. Belchier (United Kingdom) and J. Arata (Chile)

6. Proposal for a SCOR Working Group to identify Ecosystem Essential Ocean Variables for measuring change in the biological properties of marine ecosystems

   for measuring change in the biological properties of marine ecosystems” was developed by members of ... the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Science Steering Committee in conjuction with discussions ... amongst members of the Science Steering Committee of the IMBER program, Integrating Climate and Ecosystem ... Dynamics (ICED) as part of the development of the ICED Southern Ocean Sentinel.  The aim of the Working ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/45 : Author(s): A. Constable (Australia)

7. A characterisation of the toothfish fishery in Subarea 48.6 from 2003/04 to 2011/12

   Abstract:  We analysed the available data from vessel and scientific observer logbooks from the ... ) in CCAMLR subarea 48.6 (South East Atlantic). This report summarises the catch, effort, timing, depth ... , location, size structure and maturity of Dissostichus spp.  Information on the composition of  bycatch ... species  caught in the fishery over the period 2003-4 to 2011-12 are also presented..  For the Antarctic ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/38 : Author(s): R. Wiff (Chile), M. Belchier (United Kingdom), J.C. Quiroz and J. Arata (Chile)

8. Spatial and temporal operation of the Scotia Sea ecosystem: a review of large-scale links in a krill centred food web

   Abstract:  The Scotia Sea ecosystem is a major component of the circumpolar Southern Ocean system ... , where productivity and predator demand for prey are high. The eastward-flowing Antarctic Circumpolar ... Current (ACC) and waters from the Weddell–Scotia Confluence dominate the physics of the Scotia Sea ... , manifest by the changing irradiance and sea ice cover, which leads to shorter summers in the south. Summer ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/P8 : Author(s): E.J. Murphy, J.L. Watkins, P.N. Trathan, K. Reid, M.P. Meredith, S.E. Thorpe, N.M. Johnston, A. Clarke, G.A. Tarling, M.A. Collins, J. Forcada, R.S. Shreeve, A. Atkinson, R. Korb, M.J. Whitehouse, P. Ward, P.G. Rodhouse, P. Enderlein, A.G. Hirst, A.R. Martin, S.L. Hill, I.J. Staniland, D.W. Pond, D.R. Briggs, N.J. Cunningham and A.H. Fleming (United Kingdom)

9. Spatial distribution of predator/prey interactions in the Scotia Sea: implications for measuring predator/fisheries overlap

   Abstract:  The measurement of spatial overlap between predators and fisheries exploiting a common ... prey source is dependent upon the measurement scale used and the use of inappropriate scales may ... provide misleading results. Previous assessments of the level of overlap between predators and fisheries ... for Antarctic krill Euphausia superba in the South Shetland Islands have used different measurement ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/14 : Author(s): K. Reid, M. Sims, R.W. White and K.W. Gillon (United Kingdom)

10. Population identity, site-fidelity, movement ranges and preliminary estimates of abundance of southern right whales in the Antarctic Indian sector inferred from genetic markers

    Abstract:  Baleen whales are important components of the Antarctic marine ecosystem as ‘sea-based ... data for ecosystem modelling studies. Genetic analyses were conducted to investigate the population ... identity as well the individual identity of southern right whales distributed in summer in the Antarctic ... Indian sector. The latter analysis was conducted to assess their site-fidelity, sex-specific ranges and ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/18 : Author(s): L.A Pastene, M. Goto, P. Acuña, M. Taguchi, T. Hakamada and K. Matsuoka

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