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Following open, competitive Calls for Proposals in 2016/17, 2018/19 and 2019/20 a total of £144,058 GBP, £489,154 GBP and £129,955 GBP, respectively, were allocated from the IWC-Southern Ocean Research Partnership (IWC-SORP) Research Fund to 31 research projects in total. In addition…
Among large cetaceans in the Southern Hemisphere, fin whales were the most heavily exploited in terms of numbers taken during the period of intense industrial whaling. Recent studies suggest that…
Blue whale populations each produce distinctive repeated songs that are stable over periods of decades, and can be used to identify where each population resides and moves. In the Southern Hemisphere and northern Indian Ocean, there are at least seven distinct populations based on their songs…
As we learn more about the importance of cetaceans in the Antarctic, including their populations' recovery and needs as krill and fish predators, it is increasingly clear that cetacean science is vital for informing ecosystem-based management.
Evaluating the effects of climate change on Antarctic marine living resources is a priority topic for CCAMLR and was identified by the 2022 Scientific Committee Symposium as a key area of research. Acknowledging the need to better coordinate, target and integrate scientific advice on climate change…
The overall goal of the SC Communication Initiative is to develop new communication tools and material tailored to IWC Commissioners as the principal audience. This material is also likely to have value for other policy makers, non-government organisations, government organisations in non?
Antarctic krill are a fundamental component of Southern Ocean ecosystems and perturbations to krill populations have ramifications for the entire ecosystem. Krill are fished across the Southern Ocean and sustainable management of this fishery is a high priority for the Australian Government.
INTRODUCTION The Commission and the Scientific and Conservation Committees have adopted numerous recommendations over the years for strengthening engagement with other organisations. The IWC Secretariat, in collaboration with members of the SC and CC have been working to carry out these mandates…
Since 2019 there has been considerable discussion by the Scientific Committee and its Working Groups regarding data collection issues in the krill fishery. This document outlines issues that have been identified for consideration by the Scientific Committee and its working groups…
Agenda Item(s) SC-CAMLR-41 - 10.3 - Reports of representatives at meetings of other international organisations
Introduction … Miller and Kelly (2023) provides some guidelines on spatial model-based estimation of abundance (and its uncertainty) from counts of cetaceans obtained using standard distance sampling line transect surveys.
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).
Agenda Item(s): WG-IMAF-2022 - 4.2.1 - Review of whale entanglement information … WG-IMAF-2022 - 4.1 - Population status of marine mammals in the CAMLR Convention Area … WG-IMAF-2022 - 4.3 - Mitigation methods for marine mammals
Report submitted to CCAMLR: Leaper, R., Biuw, M., Favero, M, Forster, I., Johnson, C., Kelly, N., Heinemann, D., Hines, E., Landry, S., Mattila, D., Meyer, M., Parker, S., Passadore, C., Reeves, S., Soffker, M., Stimmelmayr, R., Walker, N., 2022.
The SCAR Krill Expert Group (SKEG) aims to improve the understanding of krill biology and ecology and serve as a link between the scientific krill community and the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), which manages the Antarctic krill fishery.
The scope of this document is model-based estimation of abundance (and its uncertainty) from counts of cetaceans obtained using standard distance sampling line transect surveys (e.g., Buckland et al., 2015).
A proof-of-concept study was conducted to explore the viability of automated acoustic detection of upcall vocalisations produced by southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) on their high-latitude Antarctic feeding grounds. The automated acoustic detector used was that of Shiu et al (2020)…
Background … Satellite tags were deployed on 50 east Australian humpback whales (breeding stock E1) between 2008 and 2010 on their southward migration, northward migration and feeding grounds in order to identify and describe migratory pathways, feeding grounds and possible calving areas.
As the use of coastal and offshore environments expands, there is a need to better understand the exposure of marine megafauna to anthropogenic activities that potentially threaten their populations. Individual satellite telemetry studies are often hampered by small sample sizes…
Individual life-history traits, such as age and sex, influence vital rates in most large vertebrate species. Developmental differences are especially profound in polygamous mating systems. One of the most polygamous of all mammals, the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina)…
Following the request by WG-SAM-2021 (SC-CAMLR 2021a, para. 10.3) and the presentation of the preliminary krill stock assessment in Maschette et al. (2021a; 2021b) to WG-FSA-2021 (SC-CAMLR 2021b, paras. 5.8 - 5.13)…
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) are amongst the most abundant animals on Earth, with a circumpolar distribution in the Southern Ocean. Genetic and genomic studies have failed to detect any population structure for the species, suggesting a single panmictic population. However…
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'.
An international workshop to investigate a potential use of ageing method for the Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba, Dana) based on growth band counts observed in krill eyestalks was held in August and November 2021.
The annual meeting of the SCAR Krill Action Group (SKAG) was held online from 7 to 11 March 2022 at 1500-1700 UTC as a series of Zoom meetings, and attended by around 60 participants each day. The meeting consisted of SKAG administrative updates…