«In the meantime we are mapping and
tracking reported whale carcasses, collecting water samples to look for harmful algal blooms and recording changes in sea water temperature,» she said.
In the
report, Greenpeace detailed its use of public data to
track five years of krill fishing vessel activities around the Western Antarctic Peninsula, the part of the continent that extends up toward South America and is both the major area for the krill fishery and a feeding ground for penguins and
whales.