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 ...

According to their results, the current krill biomass can’t support both the expanding krill fishery and the recovery of the ...

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 fishing could threaten the recovery of whale species that were nearly wiped out by industrial whaling, ...

“A key player in the biological carbon pump is the Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, whose faecal pellets, moults and ...

Today a new threat is emerging: industrial fishing for Antarctic krill – tiny swimming crustaceans, roughly 2 inches (60 millimeters) long. In a newly published study, colleagues and I found ...

Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, ...

There could be a positive ending to this story, however. Fishery managers, scientists, conservation groups and the krill fishing industry are working increasingly effectively together. There is ...

Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, according to new research.