Inverse1d
License To Krill: There’s A New Threat To Whales And Its Just as Bad as the Last One
Whales feed for roughly 100 days out of each year; depending on the species, an adult whale may consume 1 to 6 tons of krill ...
Antarctic krill store as much carbon as the world’s mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass beds
For the first time, we used a computer model of ocean currents to show that krill waste products don’t need to reach great ...
Antarctic krill can lock away similar levels of carbon as seagrass and mangroves, finds study
Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, ...
Whales are recovering from near extinction, but industrial fishing around Antarctica competes for their sole food source
The Southern Ocean’s krill-rich waters attract multiple species of filter-feeding whales – and, increasingly, fishing boats.
earth18h
Antarctic krill are nature’s unexpected carbon warriors
“A key player in the biological carbon pump is the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, whose faecal pellets, moults and ...
Whales need krill to survive. We want it for supplements.
According to their results, the current krill biomass can’t support both the expanding krill fishery and the recovery of the ...
The Hindu7d
Whales near Antarctica face dire competitor for krill: industrial fishing
Today a new threat is emerging: industrial fishing for Antarctic krill – tiny swimming crustaceans, roughly 6 cm long. In a newly published study, colleagues and I found that competition with ...