Eilif Gaard News Today

A few times a day, off the Faroe Islands’ coast, the crew of the Jakup Sverri marine survey ship test the water, measuring its salinity, temperature and oxygen at different sea depths, but they also look for something else. Durita Sorensen, a laboratory technician, holds up the contents of a special net to demonstrate. If the water is greenish, it contains a lot of phytoplankton, the plants at the base of the oceanic food chain, but if it is red or brown, as in Sorensen’s net, the haul is on...

A budding industry that aims to catch zooplankton for health supplements and fish food has scientists fearing that its effects on marine ecosystems could be devastating