Safeguarding Antarctic krill stocks for baleen whales
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Darwin Plus
VALUE £630,031
WHERE British Antarctic Territory
Summary
Antarctic krill are central to Antarctic marine ecosystems, but subject to a fishery managed with insufficient spatiotemporal resolution or species representation. There is an urgent need to elucidate the spatiotemporal characteristics of interactions among krill, baleen whales and the krill fishery and to develop our capacity to forecast these interactions. This project aims to provide this information by collecting and analysing fine-scale data on krill and whale distribution, to improve krill fishery management and conserve krill-based Antarctic marine ecosystems.
