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 ...
The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world's largest feeding ground for baleen whales—species like humpbacks that ...
According to their results, the current krill biomass can’t support both the expanding krill fishery and the recovery of the ...
Whale watchers got a rare view of the world's largest mammal when they saw a blue whale off the coast of Cape May.
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 ...
Like the whales, they were fishing for Antarctic krill. Because the Southern Ocean is so remote, few people realized that krill fishing was competing directly with whales. Together with colleagues ...
Citation: Whales are recovering from near extinction, but industrial fishing around Antarctica competes for their sole food source (2024, September 10) retrieved 19 September 2024 from https ...