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1. Draft Krill Fishery Report

   Abstract:  At WG-EMM 2013 the Working Group agreed that it would be useful to have a consolidated ... summary of information related to the krill fishery in a similar format to the fishery reports that are ... completed for finfish fisheries in WG-FSA (www.ccamlr.org/node/75667). The Secretariat agreed to coordinate ... the preparation of a draft krill fishery report for consideration at WG EMM-14 that would be similar ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/58 : Author(s): Secretariat

2. Preliminary stock assessment of Rajiformes in statistical Subarea 48.3

   Abstract:  Elasmobranch species, such as skates (Rajiformes), are not target species within the ... CCAMLR longline fisheries. However, they form a major part of the bycatch and as such it is necessary to ... understand the effect of each fishery on the Rajiformes population. Here we describe biological information ... gained from the skate tag-release programme in statistical subarea 48.3 and use the tag recaptures for a ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/48 : Author(s): M. Soeffker, V. Laptikhovsky, J. Ellis and C. Darby (United Kingdom)

3. Measurement of capacity in CCAMLR exploratory fisheries in Subareas 88.1 and 88.2: Secretariat update 2015

   Abstract:  This paper presents an update of the metrics of capacity and capacity utilisation ... Subareas 88.1 and 88.2. The updated metrics show the same pattern as the metrics based on the data up 2013 ... and do not indicate an excess capacity in the fishery. A measure of potential daily fishing capacity ... as a function of the catch limit for an area indicates that for some management areas the notified ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-15/09 : Author(s): CCAMLR Secretariat

4. Observer self training guide

   Introduction The self training guide has kindly been provided by Mr N. Gasco from France, and ... , fish and benthos used in the test. To set up the tool please follow the instructions for organising ... photo files contained under the ‘infos’ tab in the workbook, and follow the step by step instructions ... under the ‘QUIZZ’ tab. The zipped files of images contain a large number of species, thus can be ...

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5. Environmental response of upper trophic level predators reveals a system change in an Antarctic marine ecosystem

   Abstract:  In the Antarctic Peninsula region current, long-term changes in the physical ... increase in the frequency of years of low reproductive output. Changes in the population structure of krill ... , and its relationship with reproductive performance, suggest that the biomass of krill within the ... largest size class was sufficient to support predator demand in the 1980's but not in the 1990's ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/21 : Author(s): K. Reid and J.P. Croxall (United Kingdom)

6. Revised research plan for toothfish in Division 58.4.4 b by Shinsei maru No. 3 in 2014/15

   blocks C and D using CPUE analogy method, Petersen method and CASAL model, although the data of current ... season has not been validated and not used for the present analysis. We used updated reference area size ... for the CPUE method and altered natural mortality for the Petersen and CASAL methods. Detailed results ... using CASAL models in research block C are described in a separated document. The estimated stock size ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/21 : Author(s): Delegation of Japan

7. MaxEnt reconstructions of krill distribution and estimates of krill density from acoustic surveys at South Georgia 1996–2000

   of mean krill density within two survey boxes of dimensions 80 km x 100 km to the north east and ... north west of South Georgia. The reconstructions are generated from acoustic line transect survey data ... gathered in the boxes in austral summers 1996 – 2000. Krill densities had previously been determined at ... approximately 0.5 km intervals along transect for each of the ten 80 km transects in each box, providing about ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/36 : Author(s): M.H. Wafy, A.S. Brierley, S.F. Gull and J.L. Watkins (United Kingdom)

8. Anthropogenic feather soiling, marine debris and fishing gear associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia, 2000/01

   fishing gear associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia. In this, the eighth year of ... . Quantities of fishing gear remained within the levels of previous years for all other species. Marine debris ... , the vast majority of which was plastics, showed a 28% increase from the maximum of the previous year ... for grey-headed albatrosses, but a 24% decrease from the maximum of the previous year for wandering ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XX/BG/07 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

9. Climate change and precautionary spatial protection: seasonal sea ice

   Abstract:   Regional climate change is now known to be well established in the Antarctic; however ... , the implications for biological systems remain poorly understood. Investigating how marine species ... little changed by human activities, particularly by the impacts (either direct or indirect) of marine ... harvesting. If CCAMLR is to embrace the wider implications of climate change in the context of ecosystem ...

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/18 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan and S.M. Grant (UK)

10. Using compact video camera technology for rapid deep-sea benthic habitat assessment

    Abstract:  A compact, autonomous deep sea video system designed and constructed by the Australian ... Antarctic Division (AAD) for deployment on commercial fishing gear to observe interactions with the Southern ... Ocean benthos, has a wider application in deep-sea marine research. The use of the system as a drop ... voyage on the shelf-break of East Antarctica, greatly improved the efficiency of selection of sites for ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-10/24 : Author(s): G.P. Ewing, R. Kilpatrick, A.J. Constable and D.C. Welsford (Australia)

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