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1. Experimental acoustic survey of icefish resources in Subarea 48.3, 2005

   Abstract:  This report describes the activities and preliminary results of the research carried ... out during January 2005 onboard the FPRV ‘Dorada’ by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Scientists on ... behalf of UK authorities. Survey Objectives The primary objectives of the proposed survey were to ... : • Refine methods for estimating icefish biomass using acoustics. • Examine temporal changes in the vertical ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/79 : Author(s): M. Belchier, M. Collins (United Kingdom), R. O’Driscoll (New Zealand), S. Clarke and W. Reid (United Kingdom)

2. Beach debris survey - Main Bay, Bird Island, South Georgia 1994/95

   Abstract:  The fifth year of survey of beach debris at Main Bay, Bird Island reported a 3-fold ... ). Debris accumulated throughout the summer accounted for 33% of the total (three times the summer ... proportion in 1993/94). Of the 67% of debris occurring during the winter, 43 % occurred during July. Nylon ... line, comprising 80% of debris, was mainly identical to material used in the long-line fishery, as ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XV/BG/04 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

3. CCAMLR Compliance Evaluation Procedure (CCEP) Summary Report and analysis

   Abstract:  In accordance with CM 10-10, paragraph 2(i), and the procedure detailed in COMM CIRC 19 ... /76, the Secretariat has prepared the Summary CCAMLR Compliance Report (Summary Report) based on the ... Draft CCAMLR Compliance Reports (Draft reports), responses received from Contracting Parties, and the ... suggested preliminary compliance status. The Draft reports identified 16 potential conservation measure ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-38/13 Rev. 2 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

4. Conceptual model of icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari)

   Abstract:  The Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) is ... currently considering plausible models of the Southern Ocean ecosystem within the Working Group on Ecosystem ... Monitoring and Management (WG-EMM). The icefish, Champsocephalus gunnari, is one of the key components in the ... subantarctic marine ecosystem in the Scotia Sea and northern Kerguelen Plateau areas, as well as supporting ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/59 : Author(s): R. Williams (Australia)

5. Blue-eyed shags as indicators of changes in ittora fish populations

   Abstract:  The use of Shag’s pellets as an appropriate technique to monitor the abundance of ... littoral fish populations is presented for consideration of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Program Working ... Group. The effectiveness of the method is based on the very good agreement found between the fish ... species identified by the examinations of otoliths present in regurgitated cast and those regularly ...

   Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-93/25 Rev. 1 : Author(s): R. Casaux and E. Barrera-Oro (Argentina)

6. Executive Secretary’s Report 2016/17

   Abstract:  This annual report from the Executive Secretary, for the 12-months since CCAMLR-XXXV ... , is accompanied by an Implementation Report for the third year of the Secretariat’s Strategic Plan ... (2015–2018) and a report on implementation of the Secretariat’s Salary and Staffing Strategy during 2017 ... . Consistent with the Commission’s decision in 2002, these documents provide, inter alia, a basis for the ...

   Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXXVI/05 : Author(s): Executive Secretary

7. A review of methodologies aimed at avoiding and/or mitigating incidental catch of protected seabirds.

   published reviews in the field of bycatch mitigation have typically had a species or fishing method focus ... . This report presents the results of the seabird component of a global review of mitigation methods ... . The application of these mitigation methods to New Zealand fisheries were assessed, recommendations ... for the fisheries management made, and areas for further research in New Zealand identified. Factors ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-05/P8 : Author(s): Bull, L.

8. Monitoring marine debris and its impact on marine living resources in Antarctic waters

   Abstract:  This paper has been prepared by the Secretariat of the Commission for the Conservation ... Annex IV of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (CEP-III Final Report ... , paragraph 19). A number of measures have been adopted and implemented by CCAMLR to monitor and assess the ... with a standard method. Standard forms have been created for the collection and submission of data from ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XX/BG/16 : Author(s): Secretariat

9. Krill population dynamics at South Georgia 1991–1997, based on data from predators and nets

   scientific nets from the same area over the summers of 1991-1997. In comparing the 5 years with both predator ... sampling the same overall krill population. Greatest similarity results from comparing net samples with ... samples from late summer (March). From the 7-year predator time-series, within-year variation was greatest ... krill dominated during December but were completely replaced by small krill by February. The mean length ...

   Meeting Document : WS-AREA 48-98/15 : Author(s): K. Reid, J. Watkins, J. Croxall and E. Murphy (UK)

10. New Zealand Antarctic research programme

    Abstract:  Since parameters of penguin populations may provide good indices of the abundance of ... the key prey species (krill) and thus the state of the Antarctic marine ecosystem, aerial ... reconnaissance and photography are used in the Ross Sea sector of Antarctica to determine where Adelie penguins ... (Pygoscelis adeliae) breed, and to count the numbers of nests occupied during the early incubation period and ...

    Meeting Document : WG-CEMP-92/24 : Author(s): P.R. Wilson (New Zealand)

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