April 2017

Is Antarctic Krill Management Precautionary?…..Part 1

Yes ! Local krill monitoring programs in Subareas 48.1, 48.2 and 48.3 indicate considerable interannual variability but provide no evidence of a systematic change in krill biomass since the CCAMLR-2000 Survey. Catches within subareas have always been ≤21% (and mainly <3%) of the biomass observed in these monitoring programs which, in turn, represent <37% of …

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