by Miami (AP) – Near the Antarctic for Krill – A central crustacean for the diet of whales and a critical buffer for global warming – has increased to a recording and is approaching a seasonal fan limit that triggers the unprecedented early conclusion of the remote fishing, and the associated press has learned.
The fishing boom follows the failure of the United States, Russia, China and two dozen other governments to approve a new management plan that would have caught the area in which Krill would have been caught, and to create a reserve reserve in California size along the environmentally sensitive intarctic peninsula.
In the first seven months of the 2024-25 season, Krill Fishing achieved 518,568 tons in Antarctic, about 84% of the 620,000 tons that will force fishing after reaching fishing. In a hotspot, the hook was almost 60% higher than the entire previous year until June 30, as from a report by the Commission to maintain Antarctica Marine Living Resources or the CCAMLR, the international organization, which manages the southernmost fishing in the world.
The report, which was not published publicly, and CCAMLR contains confidential data, was given by someone who was concerned about the overfishing in Antarctica about the condition of anonymity with which AP was shared because it was not authorized to publish the information.
“The vast majority of the krill comes from an ever smaller area,” said captain Peter Hammarstedt, campaign manager of the Conservation Group Sea Shepherd Global, who was doing his third trip to Antarctic this year to document fishing. “It is the equivalent of a hunter who says that they only kill 1% of the U.S. stag population, but let it out that all deer were shot on Rhode Island.”
Threat from climate change, progress in fishing
Krill is one of the most common types of sea in the world with an estimated biomass of 63 million tons. Advances in fishing, climate change and the growing demand for krils omega-3-oil for fish flour, home meter food and human nutritional supplements increases pressure on the krill shares. In the 2023-24 season, a fleet of 12 industrial trawlers from mainly Norway and China 498,350 tons of Krill-Bis caught the biggest harvest since CCAMLR in 1973 with collecting catch data.
AP journalists traveled to the icy waters in the Antarctic in 2023 and observed how facts dragged the factory in the immediate vicinity of whales, the figures of which still recover from an industrial club, which they almost died out.
In the long, cylindrical nets used by the ships to vacuum the cancer sucker of the paper flap, three humpback whales were injured for dead or seriously injured in the past year to underline the competition between humans and whales or seriously injured.
The officials have been negotiating a new management plan for years, which would reconcile the growing Krill market with stronger protection of the Antarctic Peninsula, the northernmost point of the continent and an area that grows from whales and increasingly tourists. Less than 5% of the southern ocean are currently protected – far behind CCAMLR’s destination and a goal of the United Nations to preserve 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030.
However, a preliminary deal fell at the CCAMLR meeting of the last minute at the last minute by the United Kingdom and Australia for an even lower fishing limit than that of which was approved during the talks, AP reported last year. China, who made itself against the continuing western demands, then withdrew his support for the Marine Reserve and refused to renew the existing management system.
“The truth was that it was Great Britain,” said Matts Johansen, Managing Director of Norway’s Ailer Biomarine, the world’s largest provider of products in Krill, in June at the United Nations Oceans Conference. “Just a few days before the vote, Great Britain threw another proposal and then the Chinese have withdrawn.”
A spokesman for the British foreign office rejected this characterization and said that the British government continued to promote a krill management strategy that better protects the Antarctic MarineSpezie and in need of protection.
Fan lime restrictions fall off
In the absence of an agreement that was passed 15 years ago to spread the fishing limit, the Krill fleet essentially ran everywhere anywhere, including in smaller habitats that were preferred by whales and other animals such as penguins and seals.
Krill is not only of crucial importance for sea ecosystems. The researchers are increasingly focusing on their role as a bulwark against climate change. A study assessed by experts last year showed that Krill kept 20 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere and in the ocean. Every year this corresponds to 5 million cars of 5 million cars.
Ccamlr refused to comment on the report obtained from the AP.
Ship tracking data analyzed by Global Fishing Watch at the request of the AP also showed a higher drag concentration. Sub-area 48.1 describes the activities in a popular fishing site, this season seems to have more than doubled compared to the 2023-2024 season, according to The US-in, sustainable fishing.
Javier Arata, the executive director of those responsible for those responsible Krill Harvesting Companies, whose members are responsible for 95% of the krill taken from Antarctica, said that the fishing limit was always intended as an intermediate measure.
His group supports the creation marine protected areas in Antarctic. But it rejects the waiting for a nature conservation contract to take “ready-to-go measures” to increase the quota that he said that it can be much higher.
“The failure to promote management was political and not scientifically,” he said.
The current fish level, although higher than earlier borders, remain sustainable and reflect the consensus recommendation of the scientists before the agreement of last year, added Arata.
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