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Krill nets in Southern Ocean

Richard Stallman's Personal Page [Unofficial] April 5, 2026
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Humans are fishing more and more for krill, the food most whales eat. This threatens to drive whale populations down, just after the decrease in whale hunting enabled them to recover. I wonder what people do with krill caught by these large boats. I also wonder whether ocean acidification, expected to wipe out crustaceans along with coral, would indirectly wipe out whales too.

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