CEMP indices and the development of ecosystem assessments

In 2000, WG-EMM requested that the Secretariat review the historical development of CEMP indices and ecosystem assessments (Table 3 and paragraph 3.55). The following paper provides a starting point for such a review, as well as a conceptual approach which may provide a framework for a set of reference documents which could be held electronically on the CCAMLR website and/or on CDROM.