Sentences with phrase «local krill populations»

Krill also face another threat, which was not a focus of our research: Concentrated industrial fishing is depleting local krill populations, potentially forcing penguins and other species to shift their foraging patterns.

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The phytoplankton - dependent krill populations in the Southern Ocean which are the staple food of all the great baleen whales are now down by 80 % and the shortfall is now also starving local fish species, penguins and seals.)