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1. A review of by-catch in CCAMLR exploratory toothfish fisheries

   Abstract:  Mitigating the adverse affects of commercial fishing on the environment is an integral ... to gain priority, despite their numbers being relatively low compared to fish bycatch species.  The ... Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) is widely recognized for its ... incidental seabird mortality, but comparatively little research has been applied to the thousands of fish ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-14/16 : Author(s): E. McClure, K. Reid (Secretariat)

2. Demersal longlines with integrated weight: a preliminary assessment of sink rates, fish catch success and operational effects

   lines with weigh integrated into the rope fibres. The sink rates to 15 m depth of 9 mm demersal ... attached weights (6 kg/49 m) in the New Zealand ling fishery. Longlines with 0 g/m (unweighted), 25 g/m, 50 ... 0.353 m/s, respectively. The longline with externally attached weights sank at 0.32 m/s. IW longlines ... . Catch rates of ling varied with line weight but results are indeterminant due to the small sample sizes ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/22 : Author(s): G. Robertson (Australia), M. McNeill, B. King (New Zealand) and R. Kristensen (Norway)

3. Long-term observations from Antarctica demonstrate that mismatched scales of fisheries management and predator–prey interaction lead to erroneous conclusions about precaution

   that can help conserve marine predators. Uncertainty about the impacts of fisheries removals on ... dependent predators bolsters this perspective, but consideration of the spatio-temporal scales over which ... are as precautionary as presumed. Antarctic krill are targeted by the largest fishery in the Southern ... penguin performance are predicted to be below the long-term average with a probability of 0.77. Catch ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-2019/11 : Author(s): G.M. Watters, J.T. Hinke and C.S. Reiss

4. Proposals for study of spatial-temporal dynamics of krill distribution for management applications

   Abstract:  This paper briefly outlines the key scientific issues that should be resolved for ... providing sufficient information with the aim of quantitative understanding regularities and trends of krill ... spatial distribution in the Scotia Sea being the important information for developing management strategy ... for krill stock in the Area 48. Proposals concerning scientific activity needed for resolving issues ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXX/BG/09 : Author(s): Delegation of Russia

5. Re-constructing historical Adélie penguin abundance estimates by retrospectively accounting for detection bias

   Abstract:  This paper provides some of the detail to standardisation examples that are outlined in ... the more general Working Group paper titled ‘The importance of standardising and validating new ... methods for CEMP to maintain the robustness of long-term time series’. We recommend reading the general ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-15/P02 : Author(s): C. Southwell, L. Emmerson, K. Newbery, J. McKinlay, K. Kerry, E. Woehler and P. Ensor

6. Demographic studies for CEMP

   methods for determining demographic parameters. It is noted the methods (CEMP A4) as published in CEMP ... Standard Methods 2003 appear adequate. Revision may be required in the future following consideration of ... how aspects of predator demographics may be used for management in the CCAMLR context. The ... considerable tagging and search effort required to obtain demographic data and the period over which such ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/45 : Author(s): K.R. Kerry, J.R. Clarke and L.M. Emmerson (Australia)

7. Deaths of Adélie penguins at Mawson November–December 2001 investigated

   near Mawson between 23 November and 4 December, 2001. It is concluded the most likely cause of death ... was severe injury from being crushed by ice at the ice land interface. Circumstance surrounding the ... death of the penguins suggested initially that disease may have been implicated and so investigations ... were treated accordingly. The sampling protocols developed by CEMP were used in these investigations ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/42 : Author(s): K. Kerry and L. Irvine (Australia)

8. Toothfish tagging programme around South Georgia, 2000

   South Georgia during early 2000. Details of the programme are given. A total of 359 toothfish were ... tagged during a trawl survey on the Shag Rocks shelf and a further 135 were tagged on the continental ... slope around South Georgia and Shag Rocks. The programme has been advertised widely amongst industrial ... fishermen operating in the region. Author(s):  G. Pilling, I. Everson, D. Agnew, T. Daw, R. Forster, A ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-00/26 : Author(s): G. Pilling, I. Everson, D. Agnew, T. Daw, R. Forster, A. North and M. Purves (United Kingdom)

9. ON INCIDENTAL MORTALITY OF ANTARCTIC KRILL AT KRILL FISHERY

   Abstract:  Analysis of the Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) commercial and research fishery in ... low catchability, as a rule, 10-20%. The experiments showed that while percolated through large meshes ... 40-50% of the «percolated» individuals were injured, at the same time while «punched» through small ... meshes of the trawl codend 60 to 100% of individuals perished. There are two main aspects of this problem ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/11 : Author(s): L. Pshenichnov (Ukraine)

10. DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW HIGHER PREDATOR MONITORING PROGRAMME AT CUMBERLAND BAY, SOUTH GEORGIA

    Abstract:  The establishment of a new higher predator monitoring location on the north coast of ... South Georgia is described. Preliminary results obtained from the 2008/09 season are presented. Although ... this is the first year of monitoring, breeding success of predators monitored in the Cumberland Bay ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/28 : Author(s): J. Ashburner and M. Belchier (United Kingdom)

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