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Antarctic voyage delivers breakthrough Aussie krill research

Australian scientists return to Hobart after world-leading research that will help protect vital Antarctic krill from over-harvesting.

Mike Simpson by Mike Simpson
25-03-2021 06:44
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Author: Sophie Webb/NOAA via Wikimedia Commons

Author: Sophie Webb/NOAA via Wikimedia Commons

After a voyage of almost 10,000 nautical miles and facing nine-metre seas, Australian Antarctic Program scientists have returned to Hobart shedding new light on the krill populations that underpin marine ecosystems of the Southern Ocean.

Hugging the ice edge of East Antarctica, the scientists witnessed krill super-swarms on a scale of which they had never previously encountered, and monitored krill predators including 1,400 whales and hundreds of seals and penguins.

CSIRO research vessel involved in critical study

Federal Minister for the Environment, Sussan Ley, said the research carried out on the CSIRO’s research vessel RV Investigator will help protect this critical species from over-harvesting and would be used directly by international bodies such as the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in addressing long-term impacts on the ecosystem.

“This is world-leading research and I congratulate the teams, who over eight weeks have achieved some extraordinary breakthroughs with the deployment of new camera technologies [that] provide insights to the life of krill that we’ve never had before,” Ley said.

“The importance of understanding and protecting krill populations cannot be overstated and at a time when commercial krill fishing is looking to expand into new areas, this research will play a critical role in ensuring sustainable catch limits.”

Novel technologies to enable pioneering projects

Australian Antarctic Division’s Dr So Kawaguchi, the voyage’s Chief Scientist, said the use of novel technologies enabled pioneering projects to be undertaken.

“We anchored three special cameras and echo sounders on a range of different seabeds, where they’ll record krill at depths of up to 1,500 metres over the next year or so, including when covered by ice during winter. This will give us completely new information,” Dr Kawaguchi said.

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“For the first time ever, scientists on board were also able to deploy our new camera system designed to provide a three-dimensional krill’s-eye view of their swarms in the Southern Ocean.”

Encountered swarm of krill more than 3km long

“We found a krill super-swarm that was 3,200 metres long, 300 metres wide, and 100 metres thick, the size of which I’ve never encountered before in my career,” he said.

More than 80 fin and humpback whales feeding on krill converged on this super-swarm alone. Throughout the voyage, scientists recording krill predators sighted more than 1,400 whales and hundreds of seals and penguins.

“Now our challenge is to turn all this data into a reliable estimate of krill biomass in this region,” said Dr Kawaguchi.

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