Killing the Antarctic Ecosystem to Feed Fish Farms
posted June 28, 2007 - 4:29pmAn article by Alexandra Cousteau at EarthEcho about aquaculture, the growing demand for krill, and what that means for penguins, seals and whales. 'Factory trawlers' in the Antarctic are sucking up huge amounts of krill as feed for fish farms, depleting whole areas of the Antarctic of a key animal in the ecosystem, and threatening everything in the food chain above it.
Website: http://www.earthecho.org/blog/index.php?p=31
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