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1. Research and monitoring by New Zealand and Italy in support of the Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area

   Abstract:  In 2016 the Commission adopted Conservation Measure (CM) 91-05, establishing the Ross ... Sea region Marine Protected Area (RSRMPA). Annex B of this CM specifies the RSRMPA specific objectives ... and the Management Plan. In addition, Annex C specifies the Priority elements for Scientific Research ... that should be addressed. We recall the objectives of the RSRMPA and the research questions for ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-38/BG/25 Rev. 1 : Author(s): Delegations of New Zealand and Italy

2. The krill fishery observer manual – points to be revised

   Abstract:  This document lists up the current form to be filled in the observer manual for the ... krill fishery. I raise the underlying problem to be clarified or modified. This includes technical ... problems, workload limit, and also the problem of the commercial confidentiality. The current manual ... consists of nine forms and some of them were developed independent from other forms. Once the observer at ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/29 : Author(s): S. Kawaguchi (Japan)

3. A simple approach for calculating the potential yield of krill from biomass survey results

   Abstract:  Estimates are calculated for the parameter λ in the yield equation Y = λ M B0 for a ... kri11 fishery in which both the fishery and kri11 growth are seasonal. The criterion used for the ... calculations is that the probability that the kri11 spawning biomass drops below 20% of its average pre ... -exploitation level over a 20 year period of harvesting should not exceed l0%. The value of λ depends strongly ...

   Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-91/24 : Author(s): D.S. Butterworth (South Africa) and M. Basson (United Kingdom)

4. Diet of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) from the Ross Sea region, Antarctica

   Abstract:  The diet of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea region was ... . Overall, the diet of sub-adult toothfish was similar to that of adult toothfish, with a dominance of ... importance (IRI), grenadiers (Macrourus spp.) were the most important fish and overall prey species. The ... study did not distinguish between M. whitsoni and M. caml, but this should occur in future. Over the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/52 : Author(s): D.W. Stevens, M.R. Dunn, M.H. Pinkerton and J.S. Forman (New Zealand)

5. Descriptive analysis of mesopelagic backscatter from acoustic data collected in the Ross Sea

   Abstract:  This report presents results from a pilot study to investigate the use of acoustics to ... estimate middle trophic level prey organisms (e.g., krill and mesopelagic fish) in the Ross Sea. Single ... frequency (38 kHz) acoustic data were available from New Zealand longline vessels participating in the ... data were collected from the research vessel Tangaroa during a voyage to the western Ross Sea in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-06/11 : Author(s): R.L. O’Driscoll (New Zealand)

6. Estimation of natural mortality using catch-at-age and aged mark-recapture data: a simulation study comparing estimation for a model based on the Baranov equations versus a new mortality equation

   other model parameters in integrated assessments via CASAL for the Heard and McDonald Islands (HIMI ... R. Both use the same Poisson likelihood for annual number of recaptures by age class, and both model ... the age-structured population for each fishing year by annual recursive use of difference equations ... (ODE) for within-year population dynamics. The difference in the models derives from differences in ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-10/11 Rev. 1 : Author(s): S.G. Candy (Australia)

7. Report on the status of wandering, black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses at South Georgia

   albatrosses were carried out at South Georgia in the 2003/04 breeding season. Wandering albatrosses were ... -headed albatrosses were breeding at South Georgia in the 2003/04 season. Compared to results from a ... predominantly yacht-based survey of black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses over the whole of South Georgia ... conducted in the mid 1980s, numbers of these two species appear to have decreased by 26% and 14 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/71 : Author(s): S. Poncet (United Kingdom),G. Robertson (Australia), R. Phillips (United Kingdom), K. Lawton (Australia), B. Phalan, J. Croxall and P. Trathan (United Kingdom)

8. REVIEW OF CCAMLR ACTIVITIES ON MONITORING MARINE DEBRIS IN THE CONVENTION AREA

   in Area 48. Overall non-fishing debris items (mostly packaging items) have made up the majority of ... Bird Island, South Georgia over the last 10 years, but only small amounts from the other sites. Plastic ... . The most common entangling materials were plastic packaging bands, synthetic string/longline and ... fishing nets. The Wandering albatross has more debris reported from its colonies than any other species ...

   Meeting Document : WG-IMAF-09/08 : Author(s): Secretariat

9. Using production models to assess the stock of Paralomis spinosissima around South Georgia Island

   ) data from the 1991/92 fishery for Paralomis spinosissima around South Georgia Island. The four models ... recruitment function. The best fitting model was Model 1. Model 1 had three parameters: an estimate of initial ... abundance (N0), an estimate of the scaling coefficient relating abundance to CPUE (q), and a recruitment ... parameter (a). The generalized likelihood ratio was used to place 95% confidence bounds around the parameter ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-93/23 : Author(s): George Watters (USA)

10. Microincrement analysis in otoliths of Notothenia rossii fingerlings from the South Shetland Islands to estimate early life history timings and to validate annulus formation

    timings and to validate annulus formation. Although in the literature it has been reported that N. rossii ... in the South Shetland Islands hatches in spring, our daily ring back counting in otoliths from the ... between February and March and another in winter between July and August. The maximum and minimum ages ... estimated for the pelagic blue phase and demersal brown phase fingerlings were respectively 227 and 240 days ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/04 : Author(s): E. Barrera-Oro (Argentina) and M. La Mesa (Italy)

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