DECEMBER Start of the CCAMLR 2015/16 fishing season Christmas Day. 26 Boxing Day

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1 Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources Commission pour la conservation de la faune et la flore marines de l Antarctique Комиссия по сохранению морских живых ресурсов Антарктики Comisión para la Conservación de los Recursos Vivos Marinos Antárticos 2016 Karl-Hermann Kock, This image was taken late in the evening on board the Polarstern cruise in the Eastern Weddell Sea. The research vessel was approaching the German Neumayer Station to unload cargo and equipment.

2 Volker Siegel, Colony of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus), South Georgia. DECEMBER Start of the CCAMLR 2015/16 fishing season Christmas Day 26 Boxing Day This calendar features the times of day of nautical twilight, sunrise and sunset at twelve locations in and around the Southern Ocean, including the Kerguelen Islands, King George Island, Davis Station, Mario Zucchelli Station, McMurdo Station and selected CEMP sites ( Each plot shows the time of day of morning twilight, dawn, sunrise, day, sunset, dusk, evening twilight and night, from 1 January to 31 December The time of day is plotted in Coordinated Universal. The local time of day may be determined using the UTC offset at the user s location. CCAMLR provides an online nautical twilight calculator ( intended for use with CCAMLR s Conservation Measure which aims to protect seabirds in the course of longline fishing.

3 Eyal Kaplan, Sunset pouring sideways light on the Antarctic Coast. Photo taken while kayaking off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. JANUARY New Year s Day CCAMLR-XXXIV Report final publication in all official languages 30 Latitude 62 08'S Lions Rump CEMP site, King George Island

4 Eyal Kaplan, Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), Antarctic Peninsula near Davis Coast. FEBRUARY Latitude 45 00'S Northern extent of the CAMLR Convention Area

5 Volker Siegel, Juvenile Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) collected in Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula. MARCH Good Friday Easter Monday 29 Easter Tuesday Financial Statements distributed Latitude 42 53'S CCAMLR Headquarters, Hobart

6 John Weller, The Ross Sea landscape is a synthesis of fire and ice. Snow petrels (Pagodroma nivea) make their nests in exposed rock cliffs, 100 kilometres into the Antarctic continent. APRIL Statistical Bulletin published Latitude 85 28'S Southern extent of the Ross Sea ice shelf

7 Volker Siegel, Elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), South Georgia. MAY SC-CAMLR-XXXIV Report final publication in all official languages 3 4 Conservation measures adopted at CCAMLR-XXXIV come into force May The Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP XIX), Santiago, Chile 23 May 1 June Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting ATCM XXXIX, Santiago, Chile Latitude 64 00'S Southern boundary of the South Orkney Islands southern shelf MPA

8 Clifford Hoang, The Nathaniel B. Palmer steers clear of a massive table iceberg, west Antarctic Peninsula. JUNE Submission of fishery notifications for 2016/ Latitude 55 59'S Cape Horn

9 Nicolas Gasco, White-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) with its reflection, Kerguelen Islands. JULY Latitude 49 21'S Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands

10 John Weller, An isopod (Antarcturus) on a glass sponge (Hexactinellida) in the Ross Sea. Isopods like Antarcturus often stand on top of small sponges to feed on passing zooplankton. AUGUST Draft Compliance Evaluation Report available to Members Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (XXXIV SCAR), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Latitude 68 35'S Davis Station

11 Nicolas Gasco, Killer whale (Orcinus orca), Crozet Islands. SEPTEMBER Submission of CCAMLR-XXXV and SC-CAMLR-XXXV working papers Submission of CCAMLR-XXXV and SC-CAMLR-XXXV background papers Submission of WG-FSA-16 papers Latitude 74 41'S Mario Zucchelli Station

12 Eyal Kaplan, Antarctic kayakers paddling under a natural iceberg arch, Antarctic Peninsula. OCTOBER WG-FSA-16, Hobart, Australia SC-CAMLR-XXXV, Hobart, Australia CCAMLR-XXXV, Hobart, Australia Latitude 77 51'S McMurdo Station

13 Volker Siegel, Pair of breeding black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris), South Georgia. One of the birds has just returned from a foraging trip and is welcomed by its breeding partner. NOVEMBER Conservation Measures 2016/17 published End of the CCAMLR 2015/16 fishing season Latitude 82 17'S Farthest south reached by 1902

14 Karl-Hermann Kock, Ice formations seen during a Polarstern cruise, eastern Weddell Sea. DECEMBER Start of the CCAMLR 2016/17 fishing season Christmas Day 26 Boxing Day Latitude 54 24'S Bouvetøya CEMP site, Bouvet Island