CCAMLR implements measures to support the conservation and management of Antarctic living marine resources by reducing the risk harvesting activities may have on the sustainability of target species, on species taken incidentally as by-catch and on the marine ecosystem. CCAMLR seeks to achieve optimal levels of compliance with conservation measures and has been pioneering in its endeavors to achieve this. CCAMLR has adopted a conservation measure to support the implementation of a Compliance Evaluation Procedure (Medida de conservación 10-10) for all Members.

CCAMLR conservation measures support a suite of monitoring and compliance systems and tools. Members implement compliance systems that include:

• vessel licensing (Medida de conservación 10-02)
• monitoring of vessel movements (Medida de conservación 10-04)
• monitoring of vessel transhipments (Medida de conservación 10-09)
• the System of Inspection
• the Vessel Monitoring System (Medida de conservación 10-04)
• the Catch Documentation Scheme (Medida de conservación 10-05)

Concerned that Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing compromises the objectives of the CAMLR Convention, CCAMLR has adopted additional conservation measures to specifically address the threat of IUU fishing. These conservation measures include the establishment of the 2022/2023 Non-Contracting Party IUU Vessel List (Medida de conservación 10-07) and the 2023/24 Contracting Party IUU Vessel List (Medida de conservación 10-06) and obligations in respect of the control of nationals from CCAMLR Member countries (Medida de conservación 10-08).

The Standing Committee on Implementation and Compliance (SCIC) is a subsidiary body to the Commission and meets annually to review the operation of conservation measures and compliance systems and to advise the Commission on their refinement and implementation.