Horizontal niche partitioning of humpback and fin whales around the West Antarctic Peninsula: evidence from a concurrent whale and krill survey. Polar Biology , 2016; 39 (5): 799 DOI: 10.1007 ...

However, four humpback whales were entangled in one of Aker BioMarine’s nets in 2021 and 2022.A 2022 study did find that krill fishing in the Antarctic has a low bycatch rate. Avoiding further ...

A team of 28 international scientists on Saturday will head south from Hobart for a seven-week study of the daily lives of Antarctic blue whales and Antarctic krill, in what is described as the ...

Super-Aggregations of Krill and Humpback Whales in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula. PLoS ONE , 2011; 6 (4): e19173 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019173 Cite This Page : ...

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 ...

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 in a day. ... Like the whales, they were fishing for Antarctic krill.

Antarctic krill is rich in omega-3 fatty acids and serves as the only food source for larger whale species like blues or fins, filtering easily through their bristly mouths and forming an integral ...

But in 2020, following a year in which krill were less plentiful, only 29% of humpback females were pregnant. Lead author Logan Pallin, a postdoctoral researcher in the Ocean Sciences Department at UC ...

In the Antarctic, krill, which means "whale food" in Norwegian, sustain not only whales, but also penguins, seals, squid, fish, albatross, and other. Skip to main content Skip to footer site map.

The Western Antarctic sector of the Southern Ocean is the regular feeding ground of a large number of fin and humpback whales of the Southern Hemisphere. Around 5,000 fin whales likely migrate to ...

A team of 28 international scientists on Saturday will head south from Hobart for a seven-week study of the daily lives of Antarctic blue whales and Antarctic krill, in what is described as the ...