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(NaturalNews) In order to help protect the food supply of whales, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced a ban on krill harvesting in a wide section of the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Washington, Oregon and California. The effort is part of NOAA's longstanding attempts to protect the delicate food supply of marine mammals.
As the Associated Press reported last week, "Krill are taken primarily off Antarctica, where scientists have raised concerns the fishery has upset the food web, making life tougher for penguins and other marine life. The catch is processed into food for salmon farms, as well as home aquariums, and an oil consumed by people." (Krill oil.)
NaturalNews has joined prominent marine biologists in raising concern about the ongoing harvesting of krill for fish farms and krill oil nutritional supplements. In April of this year, we conducted a phone interview with Dr. Boris Worm, a world-renowned marine biologist, who voiced his concern about krill harvesting. The highlights of that interview are available here: http://www.naturalnews.com/025818.html
The full, downloadable MP3 audio of the interview with Dr. Worm is available here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Po...
And the full text of the interview is here: http://www.naturalnews.com/026009_e...
In that interview, Dr. Worm echoes what the NOAA is now openly stating about krill. As AP reports:
"The idea to save krill for marine life originally came from managers of the national marine sanctuaries off California, who became concerned in 2003 after rockfish populations declined, and later in 2005 when a downturn in krill populations was blamed for starving sea birds and other West Coast marine life."
"Krill is a critical prey for a huge number of vertebrate species there," including whales, salmon and rockfish, said William Douros, NOAA's West Coast regional director of marine sanctuaries. (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...)
Why we must save the krillProtecting krill is crucial for the long-term viability of other species that depend on it for food (whales, notably). The highly nutritious nature of krill is precisely what makes it so important to the marine food web -- its rich omega-3 oils are vital for the dietary needs of whales, penguins and other marine predators.
As NaturalNews has reported, the most eco-conscious choice for marine omega-3 oils is green-lipped mussel oil from aquatic farms that are not fed anything other than the natural phytoplankton circulating in the water. The difference between "good" fish farms and "bad" fish farms is found in how they feed their fish: If other fish (or krill) have to be caught, processed and fed to the larger fish in an aquatic fishery, then that's highly destructive to the larger food chain (and many salmon farms fall into this category). But if the aquaculture farms inject no food whatsoever into the fish populations, and they feed only on the naturally-circulating low-level food sources in the ocean waters, then it's a "good" aquaculture farm. (Such is the case with green-lipped mussels farmed off the coast of New Zealand.)
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