Opportunities for IWC-CCAMLR collaboration to contribute to CCAMLR's Revised Krill Fishery Management Approach

Summary

Development of CCAMLR krill fishery management: Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is both abundant and broadly distributed in the Southern Ocean, with most of its life history stages considered important prey items for a wide variety of organisms (Trathan and Hill 2016). The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) is responsible for the management of the krill fishery, and, with the exception of whales and seals, all other marine living resources in the Southern Ocean, including targeted, dependent and associated species. (CCAMLR defines the geographical extent over which it has jurisdiction as the region between the Antarctic Polar Front and the continent; see here for more details.) ...