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1. Preparing for the Year of the Skate: proposed information collection and tagging protocol for skates

   Abstract:  Skates are an important bycatch of the toothfish fishery in the CCAMLR area and have been identified as priority taxa for which assessments of status are required (e.g., SC-CCAMLR XXIII 2004, paragraphs 4.172, 4.177 and 4.199). While Dunn et al. (2007) and Agnew et al. (2007) have

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/39 : Author(s): S. Mormede, A. Dunn, J. Fenaughty, M. Francis, S. Hanchet, R. O’Driscoll and N. Smith (New Zealand)

2. Report on a random stratified trawl survey to estimate distribution and abundance of Dissostichus eleginoides and Champsocephalus gunnari conducted in the Heard Island region (Division 58.5.2), May–June 2007

   Abstract:  Since the commencement of commercial fishing in Australian waters on the Heard Island plateau in 1997 an annual random stratified trawl survey (RSTS) has been conducted to assess the stocks of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) and mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari).

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/46 : Author(s): G.B. Nowara and T. Lamb (Australia)

3. Spawning periods and locations of Champsocephalus gunnari in Subarea 48.3 (South Georgia and Shag Rocks): a review

   Abstract:  Analysis of recent commercial catch, research survey and larval data for mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) recorded from CCAMLR Subarea 48.3 coupled with historical information indicates that they spawn inshore close to the bays and over the shelf to the northeast. There is also

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/55 : Author(s): S. Clarke, M. Belchier and M.A. Collins

4. Preliminary report of the UK winter icefish survey, South Georgia (CCAMLR Subarea 48.3), 27 August to 21 September 2007

   Abstract:  This is a preliminary report of the results of the 11th UK South Georgia groundfish survey, the first to be conducted during the austral winter since 1997. Preliminary biomass estimates are provided for C. gunnari whilst new information on the winter distribution and ecology of the

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/56 : Author(s): M. Belchier, M.A. Collins, J. Moir-Clark, S. Fielding, J. Lawson, C. Main and A. Pande (United Kingdom)

5. BirdLife International Global Procellariiform Tracking Database

   Author(s):  B. Sullivan (BirdLife International) Title:  BirdLife International Global Procellariiform Tracking Database Approval:  Approved

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/57 Rev. 1 : Author(s): B. Sullivan (BirdLife International)

6. Stones in toothfish stomachs: an unusual source of geological information from closed regions of Antarctic shelf and slope

   Abstract:  The rocks from stomachs of Dissostichus mawsoni were used as a source of geological information about sea bottom. Authors suggest toothfish picks up stones from the bottom randomly, and these stones may be used for geological description of the closed areas of Antarctic shelf and slope.

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/58 : Author(s): N.V. Kokorin, D.S. Klucharev and M.A. Sukhoruchenkov (Russia)

7. The biology of the spiny icefish (Chaenodraco wilsoni Regan, 1914)

   Abstract:  The most abundant icefish species observed in catches off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula in the last 25- 30 years has been the spiny icefish Chaenodraco wilsoni Regan 1914. C. wilsoni has been exploited on a commercial scale from the late 1970’s to the end of the 1980’s off

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/P1 : Author(s): K.-H. Kock, L.V. Pshenichnov, C.D. Jones, J. Gröger and R. Riehl. (Polar Biol., 31 (3): 381–393 (2007))

8. CCAMLR process of risk assessment to minimise the effects of longline fishing mortality on seabirds

   Abstract:  We describe the process used in the fisheries management system of the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to minimise seabird bycatch, and the risk assessment methodology developed to assist this. We examine the progress of several Regional

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/P2 : Author(s): S.M. Waugh, G.B. Baker, R. Gales and J.P. Croxall (Mar. Pol., in press)

9. Distribution, growth, diet and foraging behaviour of the yellow-fin notothen (Patagonotothen guntheri) on the Shag Rocks shelf (Southern Ocean)

   Abstract:  The distribution, length-frequency and diet of Patagonotothen guntheri are described from 14 bottom trawl surveys conducted on the Shag Rocks and South Georgia shelves in the austral summers from 1986 to 2006. P. guntheri (80-265 mm LT) were caught on the Shag Rocks shelf from depths of

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/P3 : Author(s): M.A. Collins, R. Shreeve, S. Fielding and M. Thurston (J. Fish Biol., 72 (1): 271–286 (2008))

10. Distribution and diet of juvenile Patagonian toothfish on the South Georgia and Shag Rocks shelves (Southern Ocean)

    Abstract:  The distribution and diet of juvenile (<750 mm) Patagonian toothfish are described from 4 annual trawl surveys (2003-06) around the island of South Georgia in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Recruitment of toothfish varies inter-annually, and a single large cohort dominated

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-07/P4 : Author(s): M.A. Collins, K.A. Ross, M. Belchier, K. Reid. (Mar. Biol., 152: 135–147 (2007)).

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