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1. Aligning toothfish fishery status with the CCAMLR regulatory framework

   Abstract:  The nomenclature or status assigned to individual toothfish fisheries in the CAMLR ... Convention Area is intended to be guided by CCAMLR’s regulatory framework. However, the status of toothfish ... fisheries and the regulatory framework has become increasingly disconnected in many fisheries throughout the ... . This disconnect has led to confusion within the Scientific Committee, Commission, and stakeholder ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-2019/66 : Author(s): C.D. Jones

2. First global census of the Adélie penguin

   Abstract:  We report on the first global census of the Adélie Penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae ... % larger (3.79 million breeding pairs) than the last estimate in 1993. We provide the first abundance ... colonizations. These recent colonizations represent approximately 5% of the increase in known breeding ... population and provide insight into the ability of these highly philopatric seabirds to colonize new breeding ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/P05 : Author(s): H.J. Lynch and M.A. LaRue

3. Estimation of the incidental capture of seabird species in commercial fisheries in New Zealand waters, 2000/01

   novaezelandiae) trawl fisheries accounted for 94% of the 701 seabird captures in observed trawl fisheries ... . Observed incident rates in longline fisheries were highest in the ling longline fishery: 24% of observed ... in the trawl fisheries: 8% of observed tows in the squid fishery, 4% in hoki, barracouta (Thyrsites ... the main fisheries with observed seabird captures: for ling longline fisheries, mean catch rates ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/55 : Author(s): S.J. Baird (New Zealand)

4. Intra-archipelago moult dispersion of southern elephant seals at the Prince Edward Islands, southern Indian Ocean

   ), 38 of which could be individually identified by resighting their tag numbers. The majority of the MI ... -tagged seals were yearlings or subadults, and all but one were hauled out at PEI for the annual moult ... . The attendance rate of the known individuals at their natal island during the annual moult was only 40 ... %, based on their resighting histories. This was significantly lower than the 77 ± 6% moult attendance rate ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/P16 : Author(s): W.C. Oosthuizen, M.N. Bester, P.J.N. de Bruyn and G.J.G. Hofmeyr

5. A comparison of acoustic targets at South Georgia and the South Orkney Islands during a season of profound krill scarcity

   Abstract:  Dual frequency (38 and 120 kHz) acoustic surveys of shelf-break regions in the vicinity ... of Willis Islands, South Georgia and Coronation Island, South Orkneys, both in the Atlantic sector of ... the Southern Ocean, were carried out from RRS lames Clark Ross during January 1994. Difference in ... signal strength between the two frequencies (δMVBS = MVBS 120 kHz- MVBS 38 kHz) was used to partition ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/75 : Author(s): Watkins, J.L., Brierley, A.S.

6. A preliminary assessment of age and growth of Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarcticum) in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

   the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Biological data, including fish length, weight, sex, gonad maturity, liver ... von Bertalanffy growth parameters. The species is relatively slow-growing with a moderate longevity ... ; the maximum estimated age was 14.3 years. Von Bertalanffy parameters derived for both sexes combined ... are: L, 22.1 cm SL; K, 0.167 y-1; t 0,-0.4 years. Parameter estimates were also derived for the sexes ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/20 : Author(s): C.P. Sutton and P.L. Horn (New Zealand)

7. Demersal fish communities in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica: comparisons between video and trawl survey methods

   essential for understanding the ecological effects of fisheries. Such estimates are conventionally derived ... . Using data collected during a survey of demersal fish communities in the Ross Sea region of Antarctica ... spanning the continental shelf, northern continental slope, abyssal plain, and two seamounts were sampled ... using the towed camera and at least one of the trawl types, allowing direct comparisons between sampling ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-12/51 : Author(s): D.A. Bowden, S.M. Hanchet and P.M. Marriott (New Zealand)

8. Impacts of rising sea temperature on krill increase risks for predators in the Scotia Sea

   Abstract:  Climate change is a threat to marine ecosystems and the services they provide, and ... reducing fishing pressure is one option for mitigating the overall consequences for marine biota. We used a ... minimally realistic ecosystem model to examine how projected effects of ocean warming on the growth of ... , penguins, seals, and fish) in the Scotia Sea. We also investigated the potential to mitigate depletion risk ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/P02 : Author(s): E.S. Klein, S.L. Hill, J.T. Hinke, T. Phillips and G.M. Watters

9. Draft proposal for multi-Member research on the Dissostichus mawsoni exploratory fishery in East Antarctica (Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2) from 2018/19 to 2021/22

   rules remain to be determined for these Divisions. WG-FSA-16/29 outlined the first multi-member ... toothfish exploratory fishery research plan up to 2017/18 for East Antarctica, which the Scientific ... Committee agreed was appropriate to achieve the research objectives (SC-CAMLR-XXXV, para. 3.244). Subsequent ... to the identification of vulnerable marine ecosystem (VME) indicator species (Maschette et al. 2017 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-18/17 : Author(s): Delegations of Australia, France, Japan, Republic of Korea and Spain

10. Spatial patterns of temporal relationships in the Southern Ocean

    Abstract:  Phytoplankton production during the austral summer in the Southern Ocean is known to be ... modelled variables and show that this covariance in time between the mixed layer depth (MLD), sea surface ... . Statistically significant spatial patterns in the covariance between MLD, SST and Chl-a show that the physical ... factors controlling phytoplankton production in the Southern Ocean change in a predictable manner. Well ...

    Meeting Document : WS-BSO-07/5 : Author(s): M. Kahru and B.G. Mitchell (USA)

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