In search of krill, fishing vessels in the Southern Ocean encounter penguins during their main breeding season in the immediate vicinity of their breeding colonies. Antarctic krill is a key ...

Antarctic krill is a key species in the Antarctic ... we analyzed more than 30,000 hours of echo sounder recordings collected by three krill fishing vessels in the Southern Ocean over a period ...

Industrial krill vessel fishing among feeding whales in Antarctica. ... Sea Shepherd Returns To Antarctica To Expose The Growing Threat Of Krill Fishing. Date. 2025-04-10 05:15:59 ...

FILE - In this image from video provided by Sea Shepherd Global, the Norwegian Aker Biomarine's Antarctic Endeavour krill fishing ship sails near a whale in the Southern Ocean on March 6, 2023.

In 2024, Ukrainian vessels harvested 19,980 tonnes of valuable Antarctic bioresources, a 54% increase compared to 2023 (12,945 tonnes) and 107% more than in 2022. SIMEIZ, KOREIZ, CALIPSO and MARIGOLDS ...

Two humpback whales were found dead in krill fishing nets near Antarctica earlier this year, while a third whale had serious injuries, a report from a conservation conference in Hobart has revealed.

Krill fishing in the Antarctic: ... we analyzed more than 30,000 hours of echo sounder recordings collected by three krill fishing vessels in the Southern Ocean over a period of six years," as ...

More information: Dominik Bahlburg et al, Mapping encounters between Antarctic krill fishing vessels and air-breathing krill predators using acoustic data from the fishery, Proceedings of the ...

But following the first ever recorded entanglements of four humpback whales in 2021 and 2022, Aker BioMarine redesigned its fishing nets, which regularly vacuum up to 500 metric tons of krill per ...

Industrial krill vessel fishing among feeding whales in Antarctica. Photo by Youenne Kerdavid/Sea Shepherd. Sea Shepherd Global CEO Alex Cornelissen, near one of the krill super trawlers. Photo ...