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1. Interannual variation in the summer diet of Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) at Edmonson Point

   , in the Ross Sea, Antarctica, to study the feeding ecology of this species for the Commission for the ... Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) Ecosystem Monitoring Program. The study took place ... Island in 2001. Mean diet composition varied from year to year and between the two locations in 2001 ... . Meal size for chicks was found to be higher during the crèche than the guard period and males were ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/38 : Author(s): S. Olmastroni, F. Pezzo, I. Bisogno and S. Focardi (Italy)

2. Age, growth and size at sexual maturity of Macrourus carinatus from the CCAMLR fisheries in division 58.5.2

   1993. The estimated range of ages was 4 – 25 years. von Bertalanffy growth parameters were calculated ... for both sexes combined, resulting in values of: L8 = 635 mm, K = 0.088 and t0 =-1.8. The size at ... operations in the Heard Island region in 2000. The size at which 50% of the fish population is mature, L50 ... was 417 mm total length and the size at which 50% of the fish population have spawned for the first ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/48 : Author(s): E.M. van Wijk, R. Williams and A.J. Constable (Australia)

3. Krill distribution variability and fishery conditions within the local ground of Subarea 48.3 in June 1991

   characteristics variability were carried out within a local ground of Subarea 48.3 in the fleet operation area. It ... is shown that krill transport by wat4er flow across the fishing ground results in variation of fished ... krill aggregations distribution, and thus, in unstable indices of fishing vessels activity. During the ... the period of observations (29.05.91–03.06.19) at variable krill distribution characteristics due to ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/04 : Author(s): Kasatkina, S.M.

4. Revised research plan for the exploratory longline fishery for Dissostichus spp. in 2015/16 in Division 58.4.1

   with the other participants over the coming years in order to participate in the tagging program and ... achieve a robust stock assessment. The aim is to collect sufficient data to provide an advice on a catch ... /2016 developed under Conservation Measure 41-01. The biomass in the Division was estimated by research ... block during WG-FSA 2014 using CPUE x seabed analogy method. In the absence of an assessment using the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/73 : Author(s): A. Rélot-Stirnemann (France)

5. Guidelines for fisheries-directed research addressing the Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area Research and Monitoring Plan

   Abstract:  Implementation of the Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area (CM 91-05) and the ... Members. Some of the research required will necessarily be implemented through CCAMLR approved fisheries ... in the Ross Sea region, research proposals will require robust experimental designs and ... collaborations among Members. Strategic decisions by the Scientific Committee and the Commission to prioritise ...

   Meeting Document : WG-SAM-18/21 : Author(s): S. Parker and A. Dunn

6. Information on the CEP’S Antarctic site inventory

   Abstract:  In 2004, the Commission tasked the Secretariat to discuss with the Committee on ... Environmental Protection (CEP) the nature of available data from the Antarctic Site Inventory, and to invite ... consideration by appropriate Working Groups of whether the data would be of value to CCAMLR. Information about ... the data is presented for consideration by WG-EMM. Author(s):  Secretariat Title:  Information on the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/39 : Author(s): Secretariat

7. The New Zealand toothfish fishery in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2 from 1997/98 to 2001/02

   Abstract:  Results from the 2002 season of the New Zealand toothfish fishery in Subarea 88.1 & ... . The catch for the 2002 season was almost double that for 2001, and CPUE was the highest for any year ... . The principal bycatch species continues to be the rattail Macrourus whitsoni, with skates ... , particularly Amblyraja georgiana, the only other significant bycatch. Author(s):  S.M. Hanchet, P.L. Horn, M.L ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/38 : Author(s): S.M. Hanchet, P.L. Horn, M.L. Stevenson and N.W. McL. Smith (New Zealand)

8. Distribution, abundance and acoustic properties of Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarcticum) in the Ross Sea

   Abstract:  Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma antarcticum) is a key link between plankton and the ... community of top predators in the shelf waters of the Ross Sea. In spite of their abundance and important ... species. A combined trawl and acoustic survey of silverfish was carried out on the western Ross Sea shelf ... during the New Zealand International Polar Year Census of Antarctic Marine Life research voyage on R.V ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/P04 : Author(s): R.L. O’Driscoll, G.J. Macaulay, S. Gauthier, M. Pinkerton and S. Hanchet

9. Progress report on the development of MPAs in Domain 1

   Abstract:  This report presents the results of the second workshop for identifying Marine ... Protected Areas (MPAs) in Domain 1 of CCAMLR. The results of the first Workshop were presented in WG-EMM-12 ... review the progress achieved since the first international workshop held at Valparaíso in 2012. The list ... of assistants is provided in Annex 1. The workshop was held at La Serena, Chile, between 2-4 ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/40 : Author(s): J. Arata, C. Gaymer, F. Squeo (Chile), E. Marschoff, E. Barrera-Oro and M. Santos (Argentina)

10. Update on the Top Predator Alliance project, 2013–14 season: Killer whales

    Type C killer whales (TCKW), have been identified as the top predators most likely to be directly ... affected by the removal of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni; ‘toothfish’) in the Ross Sea region ... .  However, extreme paucity of information about the diet of TCKW, and uncertainty regarding the degree of ... reliance on toothfish as a critical prey item, have limited our ability to (a) assess the risk posed by the ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/52 : Author(s): R. Eisert, M.H. Pinkerton (New Zealand), L. Torres (USA), R.J.C. Currey, P.H. Ensor, E.N. Ovsyanikova, I.N. Visser (New Zealand) and O.T. Oftedal (USA)

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