Sentences with phrase «abundant krill»

The earlier gloom and doom interpretations were largely the result of the lack of awareness of the effect of El Nino / PDO cycles on upwelling and resulting cycles triggering robust phytoplankton blooms that supported simiiar cycles of abundant krill.

The summer months are the best times to see humpback whales and blue whales, which are attracted by abundant krill.

Monterey Bay is the summer feeding grounds for the great baleen whales, which swarm into the bay to feed on the abundant krill blooms.

Some whale species come here year round to mate, give birth and raise their young before heading back to feed on abundant krill which are rich in the Pacific's colder waters.

An increasing number of Humpback Whales also inhabit these waters, feeding on the abundant krill and herring Queen Charlotte Strait & Johnstone Strait provides.

Not exact matches

In one to three years, species such as krill may become abundant.

Research shows that humpback diets reflect their surroundings, with the truck - sized whales filter - feeding on vast amounts of krill when cold upwelling waters prevail, but switching to schooling fish such as anchovies when warmer waters take over and the fish grow abundant.

They need abundant amounts of fish and plankton and krill and so on so it is necessary for them to not only find this abundance but to «farm» it.

One of the most common zooplankton, krill are among the most abundant marine organisms and migrate daily in giant swarms, heading hundreds of meters deep by day and up to the ocean's surface by night to feed.