More than a dozen supertrawlers are licensed to fish for krill, a tiny crustacean and key food source for whales, dolphins and other animals that travel thousands of miles to feed on it.

In this photo made by a CCAMLR observer, fishermen aboard the Chilean krill trawler Antarctic Endeavour prepare to release a humpback whale caught in a net in waters between Chile and Antarctica on ...

The poo locks away carbon from the ... web and are the diet of penguins, seals and whales. We had already found plastic pollution in Antarctic krill from the Southern Ocean.

Krill are eaten by larger animals in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica such as whales, seals and penguins ... amazing finding that krill, and their poo, store similar amounts of carbon as ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. 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 ...

A blue whale, the largest vertebrate animal ever in the history of life, engulfs krill off the coast of California. Photograph authorized under National Marine Fisheries Service permit #16111 for ...

An expedition to study Antarctic krill and the baleen whales that feed upon them is underway in the Antarctic Peninsula. The project is funded by the UK Government through Darwin Plus. The team of ...

A jar of krill specimens with visible eye spots. Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans. Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans. The ...

As baleen whales, these species are filter-feeders. They strain food, including shrimp-like crustaceans called krill and other small prey, from the seawater using baleen plates in the mouth made ...

Warming waters, less sea-ice cover and more whale and seal numbers was cited as reducing the abundance of krill, the main food source for the penguins. The findings appear in the Proceedings of ...