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Unlike toothfish fishery, IUU fishery is not a serious concern in krill fishery. Although the increase of expected catch of krill notified in recent years has caused concerns among some CCAMLR Members, the actual catch has not increased, or can be described as decreasing, thus there is no urgent management concern related to krill fishery. In addition, CCAMLR XXV agreed “that the priorities for scientific observers (for krill fishery) were to collect data to: (i) compare fishing methods, (ii) determine the level of by-catch of larval finfish, and (iii) better understand the occurrence of warp-strike by seabirds”. Japan believes that the purpose of observer activities for krill fishery can be achieved through voluntary efforts by Members.

The paper is a summary of a detailed review produced for submission to a scientific journal. by the SCAR Scientific Research Programme on Antarctica and the Global Climate System (S. Aoki, P.J. Barrett, N.A.N. Bertler, T. Bracegirdle, D. Bromwich, H. Campbell, G. Casassa, A. N. Garabato, W.B. Lyons, K.A. Maasch, P.A. Mayewski, M.P. Meredith, C. Summerhayes, J. Turner, D. Vaughan, A. Worby, and C. Xiao), For access to the original paper please contact the SCAR Secretariat. This information paper provides a review of the key developments over the past two years in our understanding of physics of Antarctic climate and the role of the Antarctic climate system in the global physical climate system.

This paper reports on the various activities conducted by or involving SCAR that relate directly to CCAMLR or are of potential interest to CCAMLR. This includes a report on progress with the new Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic (EBA), SCAR-MarBIN, the Action Group on Continuous Plankton Recorder research and the Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) projects. CAML has been developing links with the CCAMLR-IPY Survey. The new SCAR-MarBIN data portal continues to gather information on marine biodiversity in Antarctic and both SCAR-MarBIN and CPRAG have been involved with CCAMLR’s Bioregionalisation Workshop with the provision of data and expertise. The SCAR/SCOR Oceanography Expert Group convened a meeting to develop the Southern Ocean Observing System. SCAR commissioned a report of the State of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Climate Systems. SCAR is also a co-sponsor of both Southern Ocean GLOBEC and a new body ICED (Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics). A detailed summary of this report is provided as a supplementary information paper CCAMLR-XXVI/BG/37.