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At a crucial CCAMLR meeting this month countries will discuss protecting more of the Southern Ocean and regulations on krill fishing

“Antarctic krill, such endearing little critters. No wonder they’ve entertained scientists for generations,” marine biologist Angus Henderson says. Despite their diminutive size, these creatures, shown here in a shipboard lab, “support the entire ecosystem of the Southern Ocean,” the waters encircling Antarctica. Henderson, a doctoral student at Australia’s University of Tasmania, captured these photos in January as one of 20 Australian Antarctic Program scientists who spent two months aboard Investigator, a Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation research ves...

Table of Contents Southern Ocean Research Expedition Goes Full Steam Ahead Despite Pandemic Important krill research will be the focus of a team of scientists heading to East Antarctica on the research vessel Investigator. CSIRO MNF A team of 20 scientists from the Australian Antarctic Program left Hobart, Tasmania, today to spend two months working in the Southern Ocean off East Antarctica aboard the research vessel Investigator—one of the few research missions over the past year that haven’t been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their focus? Antarctic k...

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