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In accordance with Article 6.3 of Annex V to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, Australia has undertaken a five-yearly review of the management plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) 103 Ardery Island and Odbert Island.

In accordance with Article 6.3 of Annex V to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, Australia has undertaken a five-yearly review of the management plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) 102 Rookery Islands.

In accordance with Article 6.3 of Annex V to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, Australia has undertaken a five-yearly review of the management plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) 167 Hawker Island.

In 2015 the ATCM endorsed a report listing 204 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) across Antarctica and offshore islands south of 60o South. In doing so the ATCM adopted Resolution 5 (2015)…

In accordance with Article 6.3 of Annex V to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, Australia has undertaken a five-yearly review of the management plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) 101 Taylor Rookery.

This paper summarises the outcomes of a quantitative analysis of the extent of Antarctic wilderness, recently published in Nature (Leihy et al., 2020). The researchers assembled an extensive database of ground-based human activity across the Antarctic continent and offshore islands…

This paper draws attention to the publication in the scientific journal Nature of the results of the Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data (RAATD), a project of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)…

Collaborative research has shown that diesel fuels used at Australian and Argentine Antarctic stations are chemically distinct. Such findings can assist with understanding the relative risks associated with fuel spills, the identification of specific compounds for monitoring…

As the ATCM was sadly cancelled in 2020, in light of the global Covid-19 pandemic, ATCMXLIII in 2021 is the first meeting of the Parties since the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). The SROCC…

Abstract … Recommendations … That Model 2 presents best available science for the 2021 Patagonian toothfish stock assessment in Division 58.5.2. That CCAMLR set a catch limit of 3010 tonnes for 2021/22 and 2022/23 in CM 41-08 based on the result of this assessment and the CCAMLR decision rules.

Recommendations … We recommend the catch limits in Conservation Measure 42-02 be set at 1528 t in the 2021/22 season and 1138 t in the 2022/23 season. Abstract … The annual random stratified trawl survey was undertaken in Division 58.5.

During late March to mid-April 2021, the annual random stratified trawl survey (RSTS) around Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) was conducted in CCAMLR Division 58.5.2, with the completion of 163 stations. The survey was conducted for the first time on the Cape Arkona.

Robust stock assessments and catch limits for Dissostichus mawsoni according to CCAMLR decision rules remain to be determined for Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.2. Precautionary management arrangements are in place as set out in Conservation Measures 41-11 and 41-05. WG-FSA-16/29, WG-FSA-18/59…

Recommendations … When modelling multiple fleets in a GYM assessment, we recommend the use of the presented extension to the Grym package based on its shown capacity to model more complex fisheries and fishing practices with a high degree of consistency in results.

A phase-sensitive radar (ApRES) was deployed on Totten Ice Shelf to provide the first in situ basal melt estimate at this dynamic East Antarctic ice shelf.

In February and March 2021 an acoustic-trawl survey was carried out to estimate the biomass of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in the eastern sector of the CCAMLR Division 58.4.2 (area = 775,732 km2.)…

The fine-scale distribution of pelagic forage fish is shaped by competing factors as fish optimise foraging while avoiding predation.

Estimates of the distribution and density of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba Dana, 1850) were derived from a large-scale survey conducted during the austral summer in the Southwest Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean and across the Scotia Sea in 2018–19, the ‘2018–19 Area 48 Survey’.

Supporting Antarctic scientific investigation is the job of the national Antarctic programmes, the government entities charged with delivering their countries’ Antarctic research strategies. This requires sustained investment in people, innovative technologies, Antarctic infrastructures…