CCAMLR is agreed at Canberra
The Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources is adopted, entering into force in 1982. Its distinguishing feature is that it manages the ecosystem rather than the stock: catch limits must take account of the needs of dependent and related species, which was a direct response to the recognition that a krill fishery is not a fishery in isolation but a withdrawal from the food supply of everything else in the Southern Ocean. It decides by consensus, which is both the reason it can act at all and the reason it sometimes cannot.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources · organisation · Southern Ocean · not located
- Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba) · species · Southern Ocean - circumpolar, south of the Antarctic Polar Front · not located
- Southern Ocean · maritime region · Circumpolar, south of roughly 40°S · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
CCAMLR manages Southern Ocean living resources on an ecosystem basis, requiring that harvesting take account of dependent and related species rather than of the target stock alone, and decides by consensus. The Ross Sea region marine protected area was adopted in October 2016 and entered into force at the end of 2017. V55 VERIFICATION BASIS: no source was opened during production - this session had no network access and no remaining search budget. Area figures for the Ross Sea MPA and current krill catch limits are deliberately not quoted.
CCAMLR Secretariat, Hobart · 1980-05-20 (adopted); in force 1982 · Partly verified
Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, Canberra, 20 May 1980; text and Commission records published by the CCAMLR Secretariat at https://www.ccamlr.org/
Recorded on Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
- The factory ship Lancing takes a stern slipway south
- The Antarctic blue whale catch reaches its all-time peak
- CCAMLR is agreed at Canberra
- The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted
- A long-term decline in krill density is linked to winter sea ice
- Dedicated Antarctic Blue Whale Project voyages
- CCAMLR adopts the Ross Sea marine protected area
- Baleen whale consumption is re-measured, and the krill paradox sharpens
- The only published Antarctic blue whale satellite tracks are released as data
- Antarctic sea ice reaches a record low, a year after the previous one
- Antarctic meltwater is projected to slow the abyssal cell
- A physics-based early warning signal is proposed
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- The only published Antarctic blue whale satellite tracks are released as data · 2023
- Antarctic sea ice reaches a record low, a year after the previous one · 2023-02
- Antarctic meltwater is projected to slow the abyssal cell · 2023
- Baleen whale consumption is re-measured, and the krill paradox sharpens · 2021-11
- CCAMLR adopts the Ross Sea marine protected area · 2016-10
- Dedicated Antarctic Blue Whale Project voyages · 2013, 2015, 2019
- A long-term decline in krill density is linked to winter sea ice · 2004