France has notified its intention to participate in the exploratory fishery for Dissostichus spp. in Division 58.4.3a in 2013/14. The research plan details the objectives, rationale and activities proposed for research fishing, in accordance with Conservation Measures 21-02 and 24-01.
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Notification for multi-year research in Subarea 48.5.
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The multi-year research plan that was adopted for the exploratory longline fishery in Statistical Subarea 48.6 and formulated in CM 41-04 (2012) is briefly summarised and progress made by Japan and South Africa during the first 6 months is presented. Two vessels participated in the fishery and so far they have concentrated their sampling effort in the southern section (south of 60˚S), where they caught a total of 162.8 tonnes of Dissostichus spp. out of the 200 tonne catch limit (Table 2). They have taken only 65.2 tonnes of Dissostichus spp. from the northern section to date. A total of 1 309 Dissostichus spp. were tagged (158 D. eleginoides and 1 151 D. mawsoni) exceeding the required tagging rate of 5 fish per ton. A total of 213 D. eleginoides and 5 530 D. mawsoni) were measured. The vessel combined tag overlap statistic was in excess of 70% in all Research Blocks. A total of 13 recaptures were recorded, of which 3 were within year recaptures.
Only minor modifications are suggested to the current research plan for the 2013/14 season. The current requirement for an minimum spacing of 3 nautical miles should be removed. Possible changes to the distribution of the research allocation across Research Blocks and the possible inclusion of an additional Research Block in the southern section are tabled for discussion and possible implementation.
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Les délégations la Nouvelle-Zélande et les États-Unis proposent que la Commission pour la conservation de la faune et la flore marines de l'Antarctique (Commission ou CCAMLR) établisse une aire marine protégée (AMP) dans la région de la mer de Ross (« Aire marine protégée de la région de la mer de Ross »). En reconnaissance de la valeur écologique et de l'importance scientifique exceptionnelles de la région de la mer de Ross, nos délégations proposent d'établir cette AMP pour conserver les ressources marines vivantes, préserver la structure et la fonction écologiques, protéger les processus vitaux de l'écosystème et les secteurs d'importance écologique et établir des zones de référence pour favoriser la recherche scientifique. Cette proposition est conforme à la mesure de conservation 91-04 (2011) et aux conclusions et processus scientifiques examinés par le Comité scientifique, sur la base desquels les États-Unis et la Nouvelle-Zélande ont mis en place leurs premiers scénarios d'AMP pour la région de la mer de Ross. Cette proposition à été présentée la dernière fois à la CCAMLR sous le titre CCAMLR-XXXI/16 Rév. 1 le 29 octobre 2012, lors de la XXXIe réunion de la Commission. Sauf les passages biffés ou en caractères gras, le texte de la mesure de conservation proposée est le même que celui soumis le 29 octobre 2012. Les délégations de la Nouvelle-Zélande et des États-Unis apprécient les nombreux commentaires émis par les Membres sur les propositions pour une AMP de la région de la mer de Ross, notamment lors des XXXe et XXXIe réunions de la CCAMLR et pendant la période d'intersession. Nous attendons avec intérêt de travailler avec les autres Membres à Bremerhaven pour parvenir à un consensus sur l'établissement de cette AMP.
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) find increasing application in different fields of modern oceanography, marine biology and fishery monitoring. The Russian Federal Research Institute of Fishery and Oceanography (VNIRO) has developed the new GIS ‘ChartMaster’ designed for processing the data provided by the fisheries oceanographic surveys. This software allows:
to analyze the data of hydro acoustic, trawling, trap and scuba-diving surveys;
to draw maps of spatial distribution of species biomass and abundance;
to estimate the instant biomass in the surveyed area;
to carry out the survey planning and designing;
to carry out adaptive planning during the survey in order to localize and outline the areas of high concentrations of commercial species.
As an example of the GIS «ChartMaster» application for studying aquatic living resources in the Antarctic waters:
The Chart of possible catches of toothfish carried out by the Spanish longline (in dimension kg) is presented. The chart was calculated according to the catch results of the Russian fishing vessels in the Antarctic area (from 71º26.4’ S to 72º20.3’ S and from 174º11.9’ E to 177º08.6’ E ) during January-February, 2004.
The spatial distribution of krill density (in dimension ton/nmile2) and estimation of krill biomass (with confidence interval calculated by stochastic simulation method) off the South Georgia Island is presented. These results were computed by data of the hydroacoustic survey carried out by the Russian R/V «Atlantida» in February-March, 2002.
