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1. Preliminary plan for research and monitoring in the Ross Sea region, in association with spatial marine protection

   accompany a proposal to CCAMLR for the establishment of a system of MPAs in the Ross Sea region in 2012. The ... distribution or ‘target area’ defining the geographic extent of the feature (e.g. key ecosystem processes ... objectives and priority features.  Pursuant of each specific objective we identify the following categories ... of inquiry:  i) research and monitoring to ensure that the boundaries of the priority feature as ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/57 : Author(s): M.H. Pinkerton and B. Sharp (New Zealand)

2. Assessment models for Patagonian toothfish in Division 58.4.4, SRU C on Ob and Lena Banks for the years 1989/90 to 2012/13

   Abstract:  I revised the CASAL catch-at-length models for stock status assessments of Dissostichus ... eleginoides in SSRUs C in Division 58.4.4 a & b (WG-SAM-13/21) following several advices during the last ... ) instead of separated value for each year, 2)I calculated effective sample size for the proportions-at ... expected proportions, 3)I changed the tagging mortality rate estimate of 0.1 instead of 0.2 because ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/35 : Author(s): K. Taki (Japan)

3. Regionalisation of the Southern Ocean: a statistical framework

   regions and/or ecoregions) in order to better understand the relative importance of ecosystem processes or ... for the purposes of managing human activities in relatively ecologically discrete areas ... regions. The Southern Ocean has been divided up into regions before, primarily based on frontal features ... . In this paper, we demonstrate a method developed for a regionalisation of the southern Indian Ocean ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/37 : Author(s): B. Raymond and A. Constable (Australia)

4. Proposal to standardise the submission of meeting documents to working groups

   Abstract:  At the request of the Scientific Committee, the Secretariat has prepared a single ... reference document which provides guidelines for the submission of meeting documents to the Scientific ... Committee, WG-EMM and WG-FSA (including ad hoc WG-IMAF). In the Secretariat’s view, the guidelines would ... benefit from some standardisation of the Working Group-specific differences in relation to: submission ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/10 : Author(s): Secretariat

5. AN UPDATED DESCRIPTION AND PARAMETERISATION OF THE SPATIAL MULTI-SPECIES OPERATING MODEL (SMOM )

   Abstract:  An updated version of the Spatial Multi-species Operating Model (SMOM) of krill ... advice regarding the subdivision of the precautionary catch limit for krill among 15 small-scale ... management units (SSMUs) in the Scotia Sea, to reduce the potential impact of fishing on land-based predators ... . The model includes krill as prey and four predator groups (penguins, seals, fish and whales) in each ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-08/17 : Author(s): É.E. Plagányi and D.S. Butterworth (South Africa)

6. 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.

7. Connectivity and population structure in Pleuragramma antarcticum along the west Antarctic Peninsula

   , discrete populations along the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), or whether the shelf circulation leads to ... , reduction in sea-ice along the WAP may lead to extinction of local populations through drastic mortality of ... early stages which are ice-dependent. Alternatively, if linked by the large-scale circulation, abundance ... preliminary data from sampling along the WAP on board the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, including initial ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/16 : Author(s): J. Ashford, J. Ferguson, A. Piñones, J. Torres and W. Fraser

8. Progress report on the research longline fishery of Dissostichus spp. in Subarea 48.6 being jointly undertaken by Japan and South Africa: 2012/13

   Abstract:  The multi-year research plan that was adopted for the exploratory longline fishery in ... and South Africa during the first 6 months is presented. Two vessels participated in the fishery and ... so far they have concentrated their sampling effort in the southern section (south of 60˚S), where ... they caught a total of 162.8 tonnes of Dissostichus spp. out of the 200 tonne catch limit (Table 2 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-13/05 : Author(s): R. Leslie (South Africa), K. Taki, T. Ichii (Japan) and S. Somhlaba (South Africa)

9. Recent British Antarctic Survey publications relevant to the agenda of WG-EMM 2013

   Abstract:  WG-EMM has a broad agenda for discussions in 2013, including the following items ... related to feedback management: “review of spatial and temporal structure in the ecosystem in which the ... current Area 48 fishery operates” and “development of agreed decision-making mechanisms for the candidate ... feedback management approaches”. The British Antarctic Survey Ecosystems programme and its predecessors ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/21 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

10. The Concept of Representativeness in MPA Design

    Abstract:  The purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of “representativeness” in Marine ... application to the designation of a representative system of MPAs in the Southern Ocean. In 2005, CCAMLR ... endorsed advice from the Scientific Committee, which noted that representative areas, defined as “ areas ... the long-term ecological viability of marine systems, to maintain ecological processes and systems ...

    Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXII/BG/14 : Author(s): Submitted by ASOC

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