How Krill Fishing Hurts Antarctic Ecosystems

Krill Crisis Alert 🚨 Our recent eye-opening encounters with legal yet destructive krill fishing operations have unveiled the urgent need for change in Antarctica. These super trawlers invade proposed marine protected areas, threatening penguins and whales in their feeding grounds! Is this what we want for our fragile ecosystem? 🐋🐧 This year, the krill quota (620,000 tons/year) is under review for the first time in 10 years, and new marine protected areas are being debated. The krill fishing i

Here is a group of fin whales feeding on krill in Antarctica. It’s breathtaking to see so many whales. This should be how life is in Antarctica. Instead, this incredible scene is ruined, by a massive industrial trawler, plundering krill. It’s the very same krill these whales rely on. It’s time to end krill fishing. Krill is used for products we do not need. It is turned into pet food. It is used to help turn farmed fish flesh, such as salmon, pink. Finally, it’s used as krill oil for supposed hu