The fishery is regulated but experts say it is wrecking the food chain. Gordon Peake joined a Sea Shepherd mission to observe the giant ships compete for catch ...

Huge industrial trawlers are competing for krill – the main food source for whales – in the Southern Ocean, removing vital nutrients from the ecosystem ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: The icy waters off Antarctica are estimated to hold up to 550 million tons of krill. These tiny shrimp-like creatures are ...

They are not much bigger than a large paper clip, but the shrimp-like Antarctic krill do pack a jumbo genetic punch – a major tool for their survival in icy polar waters. An international study ...

Scientists have made a discovery about the winter diet of krill that they predict could have a dramatic flow-on effect on the Antarctic food chain. Scientists are concerned global warming could see ...

Scientists in Hobart are experimenting to capture the sound of Antarctic krill in a bid to better determine how many are swimming in the Southern Ocean. Antarctic krill are one of the most abundant ...

Scientists have discovered Antarctic krill living and feeding down to depths of 3000 meters in the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula. Until now this shrimp-like crustacean was thought to live only ...

Antarctic krill have been caught on camera at the bottom of the Southern Ocean, far deeper than they are usually found. The crustaceans were spotted diving head-first into the sea bed, stirring up ...

In January 2017, the cult-adored Boston-based trio Krill explained in a Facebook post why they’d broken up two years prior. “The indie rock world skews upper-middle class, male, and white,” they wrote ...

The overwhelming majority of krill companies are to stop fishing in vast areas of the Antarctic Peninsula. Krill are important because they are at the base of the food chain: whales, penguins, seals ...