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(NaturalNews) The success of Moxxor and its green-lipped mussel oil has been nothing short of phenomenal. People across the country and around the world are using the product and experiencing truly impressive results from the health benefits provided by this unique marine omega-3 oil. As a result, Moxxor has quickly grown to an organization of 5,000 people in just a few months.

Not surprisingly, this success attracted the criticism of sellers of competing products such as krill oil and fish oil. As green-lipped mussel oil sales increased, sales of competing products went down, and to defend their territory, some promoters of competing products decided to attack NaturalNews for asking important questions about the eco-sustainability of krill oil harvesting.

What's important for you, the NaturalNews readers, to understand is that krill oil is very cheap to harvest. It's cheap because it is plundered out of the ocean in a way that I believe to be ecologically irresponsible and completely insensitive to the marine mammals that depend on krill as their food source. Rather than responsibly using aquaculture farms where nothing is taken away from the ocean ecosystem, krill oil is removed from the open ocean where whales and other marine mammals feed.

Yes, there is a lot of total krill in the ocean, but what concerns marine biologists is the harvesting of krill concentrations near the feeding grounds of whales and other marine mammals. With many of these marine species already threatened and stressed by climate change, their feeding grounds are being eroded or altered in a way that poses a very real danger to the sustainability of local marine mammal populations.

To add the stress of a reduced food supply (krill harvesting) to that equation is an activity that deserves to be critically reviewed. Tough questions need to be asked, which is why even National Geographic Magazine has warned about the 80 percent drop in krill populations over the last few decades.

Fishing in the Arctic, where many krill live, is being destroyed by overfishing. The oceans are being stressed globally! Recently, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) voted to ban ALL commercial fishing in U.S. waters north of the Bering Straight due to the devastation being caused by unregulated commercial fishing. As quoted in the Washington Post (4), council aide Bill Wilson said, "There's concern over unregulated fishing, there's concern about warming, there's concern about how commercial fishing might affect resources in the region, local residents and subsistence fishing and the ecosystem as a whole."

The Marine Conservation Alliance also supports the ban on commercial fishing in Arctic waters. Other supporters include the Ocean Conservancy, the Pew Environmental Group and Oceana. The bottom line is that every person knowledgeable about the delicacy of marine ecosystems is supporting reductions or bans on commercial fishing. This speaks to the urgency of restoring the biodiversity and "web of life" in ocean waters, in which krill play an important role.

The fact is that many reputable scientists have publicly expressed their concern over this reduction in the food supply of marine mammals, many of which are living on the edge of survivability due to factors such as global warming.

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