Today Sea Shepherd Global has released footage and images of large industrial krill supertrawlers, once again trawling in large pods of whales off the Antarctic Peninsula.
The Bob Brown Foundation is calling on the Australian government to call on t to ban krill fishing in the Antarctic, based on the huge impact it has on the wildlife that calls Antarctica home.
The Bob Brown Foundation travelled to Antarctica over the Austral summer of 2022/23 and witnessed devastating scenes of trawlers fishing amongst foraging whales and penguins.
In October 2023, the Bob Brown Foundation released a report on where krill that is caught ends up in Australia. This report found that 100 per cent of Australian pharmacies surveyed carried krill oil products from the Antarctic and that Biomar, a fish feed producer in Wesley Vale, Tasmania, used up to 1200 tons of krill meal per year. This is the equivalent of 1 billion individual krill.
‘Once again, these immense supertrawlers have been caught plundering krill right out of the mouths of penguins and whales in Antarctica,’ said Alistair Allan, Antarctic and Marine campaigner at the Bob Brown Foundation.
‘The krill fishing industry claimed that the images of krill trawlers fishing amongst whales that we captured last year were a rare occurrence. It’s now evident that it is par for the course.
‘Krill is caught for products we do not need such as to created feed for farmed salmon or pet food,’ said Mr Allan.
‘There is no need to destroy the foundation of the Antarctic ecosystem. It should shock all Australians that the farmed salmon that is produced in Tasmania, is feed the very food that penguins, seals and whales rely on to survive in Antarctica.”
‘CCAMLR is expected to have a special meeting later this year to talk about Marine Protected Areas right where these trawlers operate. Australia must put forward a motion to ban krill fishing in Antarctica,’ said Alistair Allan.
Navy should be down there.
Navy couldn’t touch them!
Capitalism is beyond the law and the Navy are useless.
Green Peace as pacifists’ and a non-government entity are more capable of drawing attention to international crime, that Australia is too compromised to address.
Although whales are nominally protected ( which doesn’t stop those nations too corrupt to care ) , there are no prohibitions on starving them by industrial scale pillaging of their only food source, in order to supply Krill-oil for dubious treatments for knee pain for over-weight bludgers and rich Hypochondriacs.(those same responsible for rhinoceros and pangolin extinction )
This is a stain on the ideals of humanity every bit as much as sick as native forestry in NSW.
Cheers,G”)
I notice you didn’t mention Sea Shepard. Is this because they are anti-climate disasterism?
Too far for Aus ships to steam there, patrol and return
And you
Shocking. Let’s get Sea Shepherd onto’em.
This needs to stop ,navy should be made to stop this n any whaling. Even the farming of salmon is shocking n more die than is used , trapped in cages in which they can only circle while being eaten slowly by lice , it’s more like torturing than farming.
We used to be able to do that, but the greenies pushed for it to be taken out of our hands. Now it’s a UN thing. Otherwise, we could just send a frigate, but that would be illegal now.
Count me in,,,,,,,,,,
Time make the whole area,, A world national park,!.?……
Ant 🐜 🐜
Heartbreaking but probably typical behaviour. As stated why do we need krill products?
Greenies are shutting down global food production, thus nature will end up being striped to feed everyone.
Agreed.
What good is the law when it’s not enforced ?
Let’s stop eating or selling krill oil or ban it 🤔
Hard to fillet.
The government won’t take action, well maybe down the track when it’s all to late regrettably…… The companies involved in this would have had the governments backing, sad really.
Why you dont take pictures on the number 1 supertrawlers the norwegian trawlers that catching 800 to 1000 tons of krill daily??you just take photos always on the smaller ships.its because they are from europe?
unfortunately Sea Shepherd mutineered and kick their founder Paul Watson out and jumped into bed with austral fisheries who have connections to krill farming. Dont expect any action from them.