The fishery for Antarctic krill – recent developments

By S. Nicol, Jacqueline Foster, S. Kawaguchi. 2012

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The fishery for Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is the largest by tonnage in the Southern Ocean. The catch remained relatively stable at around 120 000 tonnes for 17 years until 2009, but has recently increased to more than 200 000 tonnes. The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources precautionary catch limits for this species total over 8.6 million tonnes so it remains one of the ocean’s largest known underexploited stocks. Recent developments in harvesting technology and in products being derived from krill indicate renewed interest in exploiting this resource. At the same time, there are changes in the Southern Ocean environment that are affecting both krill and the fishery. This paper summarizes the current state of this fishery and highlights the changes that are affecting it.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Overwinter habitat selection by Antarctic krill under varying sea-ice conditions: implications for top predators and fishery management (2017, background): “More recently, catch limits have been reached by mid-April and mid-May, re - sulting in early closures of the krill fishery in Subarea 48.1 in those years (Nicol et al. 2012).”
A small unmanned aerial system for estimating abundance and size of Antarctic predators (2015, background): “These challenges, together with a growing need to document population shifts due to climate change and the potential impacts of industrial-scale fishing (see Forcada et al. 2012; Nicol et al. 2012), have led to an increased need for more flexible platforms.”
Happy Feet in a Hostile World? The Future of Penguins Depends on Proactive Management of Current and Expected Threats (2019, background): “These prey are also targeted by commercial fisheries, which catch ∼20 Mt annually, or ∼30% of total global landings (Alder et al., 2008; Nicol et al., 2012).”
Interannual variability in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) density at South Georgia, Southern Ocean: 1997–2013 (2014, methodology): “Since the late 1970s, krill has been the target of an international fishery (Nicol et al., 2011), managed within an ecosystem-”
Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean (2014, background): “Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean 319 human exploitation (Nicol et al. 2012) have to take into account these specific adaptive strategies and their requirements concerning environmental and trophic suitability of the various habitats.”
Krill, climate, and contrasting future scenarios for Arctic and Antarctic fisheries (2014, background): “…and contrasting future scenarios for Arctic and Antarctic fisheries 1941 Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article-abstract/71/7/1934/666832 by Old Dominion University user on 03 July 2018 economic viability of the fishery may depend on these new products (Nicol et al., 2012).”