By Bobby Bascomb Nearly all of Antarctica’s iconic wildlife, from penguins to seals and whales, depend on krill, tiny crustaceans that make up the base of the food chain. Krill are also sought after ...

Aker Bio Marine has signed a contract with Vard shipyard to design and construct a modern krill fishing vessel that will operate in the Antarctic. The ship, which is 130m-long, 23m-wide ...

Ukrainian vessels harvested 19,980 tonnes of valuable Antarctic bioresources, a 54% increase compared to 2023 (12,945 tonnes) ...

Antarctic krill and fishing vessels. Team members from the University of California Santa Cruz are fitting two different types of tags to fin whales. CATS tags provide short-term detailed data ...

After hitting a stalemate on negotiations in October 2024, members of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine ...

Aker QRILL Company announces its fourth krill fishing vessel. This secures continued sustainable supplies of feed and raw materials from Antarctic krill, OSLO, NORWAY, January 8, 2025 ...

In January 2024, the Sea Shepherd ship Allankay arrived at the ... image of the pristine unpolluted waters of Antarctica”. The rise in krill fishing is also linked to an increase in aquaculture ...

WWF, the University of Strathclyde and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have teamed up for the pioneering project, which ...

After the ship's crew struggled for 40 minutes to cut the net ... “Krill is the base of the food chain in Antarctica and fishing for krill must be handled sustainably if the entire ecosystem is to ...

but mostly in the Antarctic. There may be up to 500 million tonnes of krill out there The overwhelming majority of krill companies are to stop fishing in vast areas of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Nearly all of Antarctica’s iconic wildlife ... reported seeing two Norwegian ships and one Chinese vessel krill fishing in the region; the Chinese ship was near feeding humpback whales ...