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, 2006. 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. Volker Siegel, 2014. Colony of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus), South Georgia. DECEMBER 2015
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Start of the CCAMLR 2015/16 fishing season
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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 (https://www.ccamlr.org/node/73031). 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 2016. The time of day is plotted in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The local time of day may be determined using the UTC offset at the user’s location. CCAMLR provides an online nautical twilight calculator (https://www.ccamlr.org/en/node/84096) intended for use with CCAMLR’s Conservation Measure 25-02 which aims to protect seabirds in the course of longline fishing. Eyal Kaplan, 2010. Sunset pouring sideways light on the Antarctic Coast. Photo taken while kayaking off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. JANUARY 2016
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 31 1 2 New Year’s Day
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24 25 26 27 28 29 30 CCAMLR-XXXIV Report – final publication in all official languages
° 00:00 Latitude 62 08'S Lions Rump CEMP site, King George Island 20:00 16:00 12:00 08:00 04:00
Time (UTC) 00:00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Eyal Kaplan, 2012. Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), Antarctic Peninsula near Davis Coast. FEBRUARY 2016
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° 00:00 Latitude 45 00'S Northern extent of the CAMLR Convention Area 20:00 16:00 12:00 08:00 04:00
Time (UTC) 00:00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Volker Siegel, 2013. Juvenile Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) collected in Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula. MARCH 2016
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20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Good Friday
27 28 29 30 31 Easter Monday Easter Tuesday 2015 Financial Statements distributed
° 00:00 Latitude 42 53'S CCAMLR Headquarters, Hobart 20:00 16:00 12:00 08:00 04:00
Time (UTC) 00:00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec John Weller, 2007. 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 2016
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° 00:00 Latitude 85 28'S Southern extent of the Ross Sea ice shelf 20:00 16:00 12:00 08:00 04:00
Time (UTC) 00:00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Volker Siegel, 2014. Elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), South Georgia. MAY 2016
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 SC-CAMLR-XXXIV Conservation Report – final measures adopted publication in all at CCAMLR-XXXIV official languages come into force 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
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22 23 24 25 26 27 28 23–27 May The Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP XIX), Santiago, Chile
23 May – 1 June Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting ATCM XXXIX, Santiago, Chile
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Latitude 64°00'S Southern boundary of the South Orkney Islands southern shelf MPA 00:00 20:00 16:00 12:00 08:00 04:00
Time (UTC) 00:00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Clifford Hoang, 2014. The Nathaniel B. Palmer steers clear of a massive table iceberg, west Antarctic Peninsula. JUNE 2016
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Submission of fishery notifications for 2016/17
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° 00:00 Latitude 55 59'S Cape Horn 20:00 16:00 12:00 08:00 04:00
Time (UTC) 00:00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Nicolas Gasco, 2005. White-chinned petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) with its reflection, Kerguelen Islands. JULY 2016
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° 00:00 Latitude 49 21'S Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands 20:00 16:00 12:00 08:00 04:00
Time (UTC) 00:00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec John Weller, 2008. 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 2016
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Draft Compliance Evaluation Report available to Members
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14 15 16 17 18 19 20 19–31 Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (XXXIV SCAR), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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° 00:00 Latitude 68 35'S Davis Station 20:00 16:00 12:00 08:00 04:00 Time (UTC) 00:00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Nicolas Gasco, 2007. Killer whale (Orcinus orca), Crozet Islands. SEPTEMBER 2016
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Submission of CCAMLR-XXXV and SC-CAMLR-XXXV working papers 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Submission of CCAMLR-XXXV and SC-CAMLR-XXXV background papers 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Submission of WG-FSA-16 papers
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° 00:00 Latitude 74 41'S Mario Zucchelli Station 20:00 16:00 12:00 08:00 04:00
Time (UTC) 00:00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Eyal Kaplan, 2010. Antarctic kayakers paddling under a natural iceberg arch, Antarctic Peninsula. OCTOBER 2016
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 3–14 WG-FSA-16, Hobart, Australia
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° 00:00 Latitude 77 51'S McMurdo Station 20:00 16:00 12:00 08:00 04:00
Time (UTC) 00:00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Volker Siegel, 2014. 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 2016
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27 28 29 30 Conservation Measures 2016/17 published End of the CCAMLR 2015/16 fishing season
° 00:00 Latitude 82 17'S Farthest south reached by 1902 20:00 16:00 12:00 08:00 04:00
Time (UTC) 00:00 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Karl-Hermann Kock, 2006. Ice formations seen during a Polarstern cruise, eastern Weddell Sea. DECEMBER 2016
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Start of the CCAMLR 2016/17 fishing season
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° 00:00 Latitude 54 24'S Bouvetøya CEMP site, Bouvet Island 20:00 16:00 12:00 08:00 04:00
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