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Annex 6 Report of the Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring And Annex 6 Report of the Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (Punta Arenas, Chile, 7 to 18 July 2014) Contents Page Introduction ................................................................................... 191 Opening of the meeting .................................................................... 191 Adoption of the agenda and organisation of the meeting ............................... 191 The krill-centric ecosystem and issues related to management of the krill fishery ......................................................... 192 Issues for the present ....................................................................... 192 Fishing activities ........................................................................ 192 Krill Fishery Report ................................................................. 192 2012/13 season ....................................................................... 194 Current season ....................................................................... 195 Notifications for 2014/15 season ................................................... 195 Krill catch reports .................................................................... 197 Scientific observation ................................................................... 199 Fish by-catch ............................................................................ 199 Revision to Conservation Measure 51-06 ............................................. 200 Krill biology, ecology and management .............................................. 201 Current ecosystem monitoring ......................................................... 205 Analyses of CEMP monitoring data ................................................ 205 Estimates of penguin population ................................................... 206 Role of fish in the ecosystem ........................................................... 209 Feedback management strategy ........................................................ 212 Introduction .......................................................................... 212 Overlap ............................................................................... 213 Simple feedback ..................................................................... 214 Structured fishing and reference areas ............................................. 219 Stage 1 of FBM and Conservation Measure 51-07 ............................... 220 Advancement to stage 2 of FBM ................................................ 220 Conservation Measure 51-07 .................................................... 221 Future ecosystem monitoring .......................................................... 222 Predator abundance and reproductive success ..................................... 222 Predator foraging distribution....................................................... 224 CEMP Site locations................................................................. 226 Biogeochemical cycling ............................................................. 226 Oceanographic modelling ........................................................... 227 Integrated assessment model ........................................................... 227 Fishing vessel surveys .................................................................. 229 SG-ASAM ............................................................................ 230 ARK workshop ...................................................................... 231 Spatial management .......................................................................... 232 Weddell Sea (Domains 3 and 4) ........................................................... 232 Western Antarctic Peninsula and southern Scotia Sea (Domain 1) .................... 235 East Antarctica (Domain 7) ................................................................ 238 South Orkney Islands (Domain 1) ......................................................... 239 189 MPA Reports ............................................................................... 243 General procedures for establishing MPAs ............................................... 243 Advice to the Scientific Committee and its working groups............................ 244 Future work ................................................................................... 245 2015/16 multinational investigation of the krill-based ecosystem ...................... 245 Interactions with ICED ..................................................................... 247 Interactions with SOOS .................................................................... 250 SG-ASAM .................................................................................. 250 Modelling ................................................................................... 250 Activities of mutual interest with the IWC SC ........................................... 251 Other business ................................................................................ 252 CEMP Fund ................................................................................. 252 The CCAMLR Scientific Scholarship Scheme .......................................... 252 Adoption of the report and close of the meeting ......................................... 255 References ..................................................................................... 255 Tables ........................................................................................... 257 Appendix A: List of Participants ...................................................... 259 Appendix B: Agenda .................................................................. 264 Appendix C: List of Documents....................................................... 265 Appendix D: Pro forma for submission of stage 2 feedback management ideas .. 273 190 Report of the Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (Punta Arenas, Chile, 7 to 18 July 2014) Introduction Opening of the meeting 1.1 The 2014 meeting of WG-EMM was held in the Cruz Roja Auditorium, Punta Arenas, Chile, from 7 to 18 July 2014. The meeting was convened by Dr S. Kawaguchi (Australia) and local arrangements were coordinated by Dr J. Arata from the Chilean Antarctic Institute (Instituto Antártico Chileno – INACH). The meeting was opened by Dr J. Retamales, Director of INACH, who welcomed all participants and highlighted the strong historical and contemporary linkages between Punta Arenas and the Antarctic. 1.2 Dr Kawaguchi welcomed participants (Appendix A), including participants from Peru (Acceding State). Dr Kawaguchi reviewed the current work of WG-EMM and outlined the meeting’s agenda which focused on the krill-centric ecosystem and issues related to the development of the feedback management (FBM) of the krill fishery. Adoption of the agenda and organisation of the meeting 1.3 The Working Group discussed the provisional agenda. The agenda was adopted without change (Appendix B). Subgroups were formed to address detailed aspects of the agenda. The Working Group did not receive any new notifications of VMEs and Agenda Item 3.2 was not considered. 1.4 Documents submitted to the meeting are listed in Appendix C. While the report has few references to the contributions of individuals and co-authors, the Working Group thanked all authors of papers for their valuable contributions to the work presented to the meeting. 1.5 In this report, paragraphs that provide advice to the Scientific Committee and its other working groups have been highlighted; these paragraphs are listed in Item 4. 1.6 The report was prepared by Dr Arata, Prof. T. Brey (Germany), Drs A. Constable (Australia), C. Darby (UK), O.R. Godø (Norway), S. Grant and S. Hill (UK), J. Hinke (USA), B. Krafft (Norway), D. Ramm and K. Reid (Secretariat), C. Reiss (USA), Lic. M. Santos (Argentina), Drs P. Trathan and J. Watkins (UK), G. Watters (USA) and D. Welsford (Australia). 191 The krill-centric ecosystem and issues related to management of the krill fishery Issues for the present Fishing activities Krill Fishery Report 2.1 In response to the request from WG-EMM in 2013 (SC-CAMLR-XXXII, Annex 5, paragraph 2.9), the Secretariat prepared a draft Krill Fishery Report (WG-EMM-14/58) for consideration by WG-EMM. As requested by WG-EMM, it included a description of the history of the krill fishery, reported catches, catch-distribution maps, information on krill length frequency, finfish by-catch and seabird and marine mammal by-catch estimations from the CCAMLR Scheme of International Scientific Observation (SISO), as well as current methodology for advising on catch limits and the background to the parameters used in this process. 2.2 The Working Group thanked the Secretariat for the draft Krill Fishery Report and provided specific recommendations for further developing the contents of the Fishery Report and agreed that the Krill Fishery Report should include: (i) background to the development of the fishery, as well as an annual update providing a description (including catch-distribution maps) of the activity of the fishery in the current season and the season for which there is complete data (ii) presentation of the data collected through the SISO, including the length- frequency distribution of krill, fish by-catch and incidental mortality of marine mammals and seabirds (iii) a description of the approach taken by CCAMLR in the management of the krill fishery, including the setting of catch limits and the background to the data/science used in the conservation
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