which regularly vacuum up to 500 metric tons of krill per day - the equivalent daily diet for about 150 humpback whales.

Today a new threat is emerging: industrial fishing for Antarctic krill – tiny swimming crustaceans, roughly 2 inches (60 ...

"Four or five hundred million tonnes of krill swim 200 metres up and down the southern ocean. This is an enormous biological pump, a conveyer belt of carbon down into the ocean, it's absolutely ...

Although the whale was observed swimming, the capture was considered ... It was the first ever whale death recorded in the fishery. Pressure on krill stocks is building as a result of surging ...

The netting works like this: first, a humpback swims into a cloud of krill. Then, it starts swimming in a circle, blowing bubbles from its blowhole. The bubbles rise, creating a cylindrical shape with ...

Under a conservation agreement developed almost two decades ago, the krill catch has soared ... a still sizable gap that can threaten whales swimming vertically.