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China and Norway push to increase krill harvests around Antarctica

By Francesco De Augustinis China and Norway are working to expand the Southern Ocean krill fishery, promoting a new ...
Mongabay NewsOpinion

The Southern Ocean is key to our planet’s future & we have a chance to protect it this year (commentary)

One of the most striking images in David Attenborough’s Ocean, his defining 2025 documentary, is of supertrawlers dragging ...
Boston Herald

Activist’s group accused of ‘terrorist attack’ in collision with Antarctic krill trawler

MIAMI (AP) — A ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson collided with a Norwegian krill trawler off Antarctica in what the ship’s owner likened to a “terrorist attack” ...
Newsday

A record catch of krill near Antarctica could trigger an unprecedented end to fishing season

MIAMI — Trawling near Antarctica for krill — a crustacean central to the diet of whales and a critical buffer to global warming — has surged to a record and is fast approaching a never before reached ...
Inverse

License To Krill: There’s A New Threat To Whales And Its Just as Bad as the Last One

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales — species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century, ...
Boston Herald

Krill fishery in Antarctica shut down after record catch triggers unprecedented early closure

MIAMI (AP) — Officials have shut down early the remote krill fishery near Antarctica after trawling for the tiny crustacean — a vital food source for whales that also helps fight climate change — ...