Human harvesting of krill in the Southern Ocean could threaten the recovery of whale species that were nearly wiped out by industrial whaling in the 20th century, according to a Sept. 10 study in Nature Communications.
The tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans known as krill are the essential food source for baleen whales such as blues and humpbacks. To feed, these giant marine mammals take in great gulps of ocean water, filtering krill through bristly mouth structures.
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