This is a 2000 South Korean PhD thesis addressing how South Antarctic krill manage its living in such harsh environment. The complexity was to find a reliable marker from where the resource can be evaluated. For example digestive enzymes, RNA and DNA. Starvation vs. well fed krill probed to be a suitable indicator on krill’s …
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In 2014, the Norwegian Research Institute published an interesting report on its findings in the South Antarctic sea about krill fishing, escape from nets and biology. Worth review for those interested in this fishery. Please read at – Distribution of Antarctic Krill and APEX Predators at South Orkney Islands (2014). Assessing Escape Mortality of Krill in …
Yes….but!!…there is still a road ahead to transit. Our latest report talks about how fishing regulations, commerce and geopolitical interests clash on the “Antarctic krill territory“. Tharos’ reviews November 2016 (latest) South Antarctic krill fishing regulations. They show that the industry, and CCAMLR, do a remarkable regulatory job, but new fishery conservation measures still have space …
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Yes, and how to better understand it ! This has been the primary goal of a multidisciplinary team of scientists and researchers, studying this species throughout a 90-year timeframe. The report addresses Antarctic krill and salps, both being major macroplankton contributors to the Southern Ocean food web, balancing commercial fishing and long-term sustainability. Researchers collected …
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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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Dear colleagues, if you are searching for the latest on the South Antarctic krill fishery, China situation, market, production and price environment, see attached our latest report table of content. Ask us how to obtain this report. See here the Table of Content – Sales and Marketing Report_vOct.2016_TableofContents
We are proud to share with you one of Tharos’ technical reports on the Omega-3 family. This is an internal working material used to understand the chemistry, risks and benefits of Omega-3s. It includes the understanding of the overall Omega-3 family, biological significance, health benefits and risks, consumption concepts and research, among others topics. Please …
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A recent Nutraingredients article reviewed the extent and implications of the Chinese Government support to its growing fishing fleet targeting the South Antarctic krill fishery (Euphausia superba, Dana). Their focus being primarily food-grade dried krill meals, are used inland (in China) to solvent-extract krill oils mainly for the internal market which still shows a healthy 2-digit …
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On May 18, Health Canada’s Food Directorate announced the approval of an EPA/DHA triglyceride lowering health claim for foods containing at least 0.5 g (1.000mg) of EPA+DHA. This monograph is intended to serve as a guide to the industry for the preparation of Product Licence Applications and labels for natural health product market authorization. It is …
Finally Some Good Guidance – Canada Approves Health for EPA+DHA Read More »
At least 500mg (0,5gr) per day according to GOED, and almost three times that much according to Russian health authorities, while for the rest of the countries that have ventured applying such regulation, it falls around 250mg, as recently reported by Nutraingredients.com. It has been so many years of debate about how much is enough, …
