Examples of krill

• Today krill is consumed by an increased abundance of smaller whales (minkes), seals (notably the crabeater seal) and seabirds (notably several penguin species), plus humans.

• As krill is the primary prey of crabeater seals, its geographic availability is probably the key factor affecting seal distribution during the non-breeding season.

• The distributions of peak areas of phytoplankton biomass and krill were patchy.

• Terrestrial ecosystems have few equivalents of schooling or aggregating marine species such as krill, forage fish, and squid, which support vast suites of large predators.

• But the upwelling, with all it means to krill productivity and dependent communities, could be significantly disrupted.

• Mysticetes have baleen plates that act like a giant filter, straining small animals (such as plankton and krill) from the seawater.

• In the year 1900 the great whales were probably consuming 190 million tonnes of krill per year, but today they are estimated to account for only 40 million tonnes.

• The discussion of effects of the variability of sea ice and teleconnections on krill, black guillemot, penguin, and polar bear populations will be of interest to all polar scientists.

• Suppose also that this supernatural intervention had no further significance consequences for anything other than the two krill.

• There are herring, hake, blue whiting, oysters and krill—every type of fish imaginable.

• The food potential of krill has been known for a number of years.

• The feasibility of harvesti3ng krill commercially is being considered.

• Over-fishing of krill could have a devastating knock-on effect.

• Experts also differ on what should be the sustainable krill catch and upon what addition this could make to the world supply of available protein.

• The main object of the conference was to prevent the overfishing of marine life, from the shrimp-like krill to the massive whale.