From the deck of #CaptPaulWatson "Captain Paul Watson Foundation desperately needs a new inflatable boat and crane for the Bandero as we aim to confront the escalating crisis of #krill harvesting in the Southern Ocean" www.paulwatsonfoundation.org/campaigns-pr... Marine #habitat #foodchain #whales

Campaigns & Projects

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/26/russia-ukrainian-biologist-leonid-pshenichnov-arrest-treason-antarctic-krill-overfishing. "Leonid Pshenichnov, 70, a #Ukrainian #biologist who is an expert on #Antarctica, has a decades-long record of #scientific #research & contributions to #conservation, including support for #marine protected areas in the region." Now he gets arrested by #Russia for #treason, when he isn't #Russian, @EugeneMcParland? If the #Russians keep overfishing Antarctic #krill, they won't have any left to fish, & they will destroy the Antarctic marine #ecosystem.

#Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/26/russia-ukrainian-biologist-leonid-pshenichnov-arrest-treason-antarctic-krill-overfishing doubly outrageous: trumped up charges, and russia wants to destroy #krill population

Karen McVeigh: #Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic #krill fishing: ‘trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov

#Antarctica #science #biology #RussiaUkraineWar #antiscience
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/26/russia-ukrainian-biologist-leonid-pshenichnov-arrest-treason-antarctic-krill-overfishing

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/26/russia-ukrainian-biologist-leonid-pshenichnov-arrest-treason-antarctic-krill-overfishing?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#Russia #Ukraine #HumanRights #Conservation #Antarctica #Treason #Krill #Overfishing

Today I learned that #Krill is primarily used for feed in #Acquaculture 😳
#Tasmania #Salmon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krill_fishery

Neue #AWI-Studie zeigt, wie ein nachhaltiger Umgang mit #Krill im Südlichen Ozean aussehen kann. Das Konzept zum Management der Krillbestände arbeitet eng mit der Fischerei zusammen. #Antarktis #CCAMLR

https://www.awi.de/ueber-uns/service/presse/presse-detailansicht/krill-in-der-antarktis-wissenschaftliche-daten-direkt-vom-fischereischiff.html

Foto: Carsten Pape

Lachszucht auf Kosten der Pinguine

#Krill ist #Nahrungsgrundlage für #Wale – und #Seevögel. Doch riesige Fang­flot­ten bedrohen die Bestände. Die Ant­ark­tis-Kom­mis­si­on sucht bis Ende Oktober nach Lösungen

Von Heike #Holdinghausen

Schafft es die Weltgemeinschaft, eine wichtige Grundlage der marinen #Nahrungskette zu schützen?
https://www.taz.de/!6114367

@ennopark
Was z.B. gerade auch in den Ozeanen und Meeren passiert ist wie ein Tsunami.
U.a. durch zuviel Wärme und Übersäuerung sterben gerade die Nahrungsketten vom Anfang(!) her ab. #krill ...
Und wer sich z.B. mal mit den Veränderungen in der Ostsee oder dem Mittelmeer beschäftigt bekommt wohl eine Ahnung von dem was uns bevorsteht - *bevor* es zu noch mehr und zerstörerischereren Extremwetterereignissen kommt.

Proof of the Krill-Weasel conspiracy.
#krill

#FYI #whales #krill #ocean #biology #science

(And now add the #climatebreakdown / ocean #heating, we cause with our relentless #fossilfuel burning, to the equation. We are boiling both the krill AND the whales, nice soup -.-

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QnqbnT2dWGU

Krill are vital to Antarctica’s food web, but overfishing and climate change are putting them at risk, threatening the entire ecosystem. #Antarctica #Krill #ClimateImpact https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08082025/krill-antarctica-overfishing-climate-change/

Officials shut down remote #krill #fishery in #Antarctica early
The unprecedented early closure of the fishery follows a report last week detailing a record surge in the krill catch after a longstanding #conservation framework was allowed to lapse with no plan in place to handle growing pressures in the world’s southernmost fishery. https://apnews.com/article/whales-antarctica-krill-global-warming-fishing-a4525f1f68d3beca3212caa9096dde27

Officials shut down remote #krill #fishery in #Antarctica early
The unprecedented early closure of the fishery follows a report last week detailing a record surge in the krill catch after a longstanding #conservation framework was allowed to lapse with no plan in place to handle growing pressures in the world’s southernmost fishery. https://apnews.com/article/whales-antarctica-krill-global-warming-fishing-a4525f1f68d3beca3212caa9096dde27

We were warned! From September 2024. And now the #whales are falling silent!!! And #krill are dependent on whales as much as whales are dependent on krill!

#KrillHarvesting threatens #whale recovery

Soaring human demand for krill in the Southern Ocean poses a challenge to the recovery of whale species once hunted nearly to extinction. Stanford researchers identify the growing food conflict and offer solutions.

September 10th, 2024

"Human harvesting of krill in the Southern Ocean could threaten the recovery of whale species that were nearly wiped out by industrial whaling in the 20th century, according to a Sept. 10 study in Nature Communications.

"The tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans known as krill are the essential food source for baleen whales such as blues and #humpbacks. To feed, these giant marine mammals take in great gulps of ocean water, filtering krill through bristly mouth structures. Booming demand for krill as #FishMeal and #omega3 fatty acid nutritional #supplements, however, could leave whales without enough victuals to sustain even their diminished numbers.

" 'Our calculations suggest an alarming possibility that we might harvest krill to the point where we do real damage to recovering whale populations,' said lead study author Matthew Savoca, a research scientist in the lab of Jeremy Goldbogen, associate professor of oceans in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.

"The results highlight a need for scientists, regulators, and industry to carefully assess the impacts of krill harvesting in the Southern Ocean at current levels before expanding. 'With this study, we want to draw attention to how there likely isn’t enough krill to support fully recovered whale populations, and now on top of that, we’re harvesting krill and plan to harvest more krill in the near future,' said Goldbogen, the study’s senior author
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Counting on krill

"The new research grew out of a prior Stanford study documenting how baleen whales gobble up significantly more krill than scientists had previously estimated. A paradoxical finding of that study was that, as whale populations plummeted by roughly 90% in the Southern Ocean during whaling’s grim heyday, so, too, did krill populations.

"The researchers worked out that #BaleenWhales effectively fertilize the ocean through their prodigious droppings, providing nutrients for the #phytoplankton that krill eat. The upshot: The krill population must have been much larger, perhaps five times greater, than it is currently to have sustained the pre-whaling whale populations in the early 20th century.

" 'Krill is the foundation of the entire Southern Ocean ecosystem. They’re really the only thing that large whales eat down there,' Savoca said.

"In the nearly 40 years since a global whaling moratorium went into place in 1986, some Southern Ocean species – particularly humpbacks – have made an impressive comeback. Yet this recovery has taken place against increasing competition with humans for the whales’ critical food source; over the past 30 years, the krill catch has quadrupled to around 400,000 tons annually and is set to expand further.

"Savoca and colleagues calculated how much krill is left in the Southern Ocean for baleen whales, seabirds, and other predators to eat after industrial krill harvesting at current rates, compared to the estimated amount of krill available before industrial whaling began. 'The basic math makes it pretty clear that the current krill biomass cannot support both an expanding krill fishery and the recovery of whale populations to pre-whaling size,' said Savoca."

Read more:

#SaveTheWhales #KrillSupplements #Overfishing #FoodChain #FoodIsLife #WaterIsLife #Whales #Extinction #BlueWhales

Alarm over reports of massive #krill catch in the Southern Ocean

August 1, 2025

#ASOC is calling on world governments to take urgent action

Washington, 31 July 2025: "In response to a report by the Associated Press that the Antarctic krill fishery may have to imminently close due to an unprecedented high catch, the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) is calling on world governments to take urgent action. The historic catch amount occurred due to the lapse of a key #conservation regulation requiring the fishery to distribute fishing over a larger geographic area.

"Krill is at the base of the #FoodChain in Antarctica and increasing demand from companies seeking to sell fishmeal, #PetFood and #DietarySupplements has led to a spiraling increase in catch. International negotiations at CCAMLR, the body charged with conserving marine living resources in Antarctica, broke down last year, resulting in lowering of protections related to krill catch. This reduction in protection allows the entire krill quota to be caught in a very small area, increasing impacts to krill predators – #penguins, #seals, and #whales – that depend on krill to survive.

"The next round of negotiations on these issues will be held in Australia in October. Scientific research has previously shown that krill predators are negatively affected by fishing at an even lower level of catch than was seen this year."

https://www.asoc.org/news/alarm-over-reports-of-massive-krill-catch-in-the-southern-ocean/

#OceansAreLife #Overfishing
#FoodIsLife #Extinction #MarineLife
#Whales #KrillHarvesting #KrillSupplements #StarvingWhales

More victims of #ClimateChange and #WarmingOceans. Also, #KrillHarvesting has got to STOP!

Scientists Alarmed as #Whales Suddenly Going Silent

"When you really break it down, it’s like trying to sing while you're starving."

Aug 1, 10:27 AM EDT by Victor Tangermann

"Researchers are alarmed after noticing a significant drop in the number of vocalizations from #BlueWhales.

"As National Geographic reports, scientists used specialized underwater hydrophones, meaning the aquatic version of microphones, to record and trace the sounds of marine life, allowing them to analyze the impact human activity is having on various species.

"However, as detailed in a study published in the journal PLOS One, devastating heat waves have triggered worrying changes over the past decade, allowing #ToxicAlgae to bloom and undermine food sources for whales.

" 'It caused the most widespread poisoning of marine mammals ever documented,' coauthor and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute biological oceanographer John Ryan told NatGeo. 'These were hard times for whales.'

"As a result, blue whale vocalizations dropped by almost 40 percent, according to the study, with populations of #krill and #anchovy collapsing.

" 'When you really break it down, it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,' Ryan explained. 'They were spending all their time just trying to find food.' "

Read more:
https://futurism.com/scientists-alarmed-whales-silent

#OceansAreLife #Overfishing #FoodIsLife #Extinction #MarineLife #MarineHeatWaves #HeatBlob #GlobalWarming

#ClimateCrisis #krill #BlueWhales

"And in the heat, not only did krill numbers fall, but their behavior may have also changed. With upwelling disrupted by heat, they scattered. This made it harder still for whales to find enough food.

'We don’t hear them singing,' Ryan says about the underwater sound recording from that year. 'They’re spending all their energy searching. There’s just not enough time left over—and that tells us those years are incredibly stressful.'"

https://archive.ph/1mkS9