Antarctic krill

animal and a lot of them are found in the Antarctic. The specie reduced abundantly because of hunting in the 20th century. The Antarctic blue whale is classified as Critically Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. The whales are now protected from commercial and scientific whaling. Climate changes are also having and impact on the whale population in feeding grounds, as well as tourism, krill fishery and research…

Further, in 1992, the IWC scientific committee calculated that an annual take of two thousand Antarctic Minke whales for one hundred years would not adversely affect stocks. It is said that number of blue whales decreased from 20,000 to just a few hundred due to excessive, unregulated hunting by nations such as great Britain that stated whaling activities in the Antarctic Ocean in 1904. The capture of blue whales has been prohibited for over 40 years, but the stocks have not yet recovered…

Dominic Pagan Professor Walsh ENC1101 TTH 12:30-2:15 7 December 2017 The Inverse Relationship Between the Causation of Global Warming and the Effect of Humanity Human beings live, breath, and, in every aspect of the term, are the Earth; everything we do directly impacts our environment, and as a result, impacts us as humans, and our lives. With such an overwhelming and impending issue that is Global Warming, one would surmise that more people would be further educated and demanding of not only…

Penguins are a huge part of the food webs in the Antarctic region. They prey on ice krill, silver fish, and squid, for some species of penguins like the Southern Rockhopper species. Penguins have a direct and indirect influence on the marine life environment. A study was done by Jing Huang, Linguang Sun, Wen Huang, Xinming…

weigh up to 200 tons. On average, they live 80-90 years. Their carnivorous diet is composed nearly exclusively of tiny shrimp like animals called krill. “Blue whales are found in temperate…

Renowned American author H. P. Lovecraft once wrote, “Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent”. Presently, the earth is estimated to be around 70% water, yet humanity has only explored less than 5% of the oceans. Imagine what we could learn from the unknowns of the most treacherous depths, and to what possibilities could we utilize all the information gathered? One anomaly quite intriguing is the diverse sea-life, which proceeds to prosper by…