Krill News/Media Resources

Press Releases:

• Press Release: Pew Urges Antarctic Fisheries Commission to Protect Whales, Penguins, Seals and Krill
  October 28, 2009
• Media Advisory: Pew Environment Group to Host Press Call on Efforts to Protect Whales, Penguins, Seals and Krill
  October 26, 2009
• Press Release: Pew Urges International Leaders to Recommit to Protecting Southern Ocean Food Chain
  April 6, 2009
• Press Release: Pew Environment Group, World Wildlife Fund Host Tele-Press Briefing on Upcoming Historic Polar Meetings
  April 2, 2009
• Press Release: The Start of the International Polar Year
  February 26, 2007
• Press Release: Stronger Protections for Antarctic Krill, Chilean Sea Bass
  November 3, 2006

Media contact:

Gerry Leape
Antarctic Krill Conservation Project
Pew Charitable Trusts
1025 F Street, NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20004

Phone: 202.887.8800
Email: gleape@pewtrusts.org

Krill in the News:

• Penguins in Antarctica to be replaced by jellyfish due to global warming
  The Telegraph
  February 19, 2010
• Frontier scientists track whales in the ice
  The Age (Australia)
  January 4, 2010
• Fading sea ice bares a scary future
  Cape Cod Times
  December 29, 2009
• 'Climategate' claims ignore science, facts
  Inforum
  December 29, 2009
• Audio Slideshow: The Last Penguin
  New Yorker
  December 21, 2009
• One good treaty deserves another
  Fresno Bee
  December 7, 2009
• China eyes Antarctic as fishing frontier
  Shanghai Daily
  December 7, 2009
• Antarctic melt to feed global sea rise
  AFP
  December 1, 2009
• W. Antarctic melt to have big impact on rising sea
  Reuters
  December 1, 2009
• Specialists call to strengthen regulation of Antarctic krill [in Spanish]
  PESCA al dia
  November 2, 2009
• Urgent conservation needed for Antarctic marine ecosystem [PDF; in Korean]
  KyungHyang Newspaper
  November 2, 2009
• Antarctic Fisheries Commission urged to control krill fishery
  fishnews.eu.com
  October 29, 2009
• To protect penguins, protect krill -marine experts
  Reuters
  October 29, 2009
• Call for support on divided management system to be proposed at annual meeting of CCAMLR [PDF; in Japanese]
  October 1, 2009
• Half the World's Fish Meals Are Farmed Fish, Fed on Wild Fish
  Environment News Service
  September 8, 2009
• Krill may give seal of approval to new fishery
  The Sydney Morning Herald
  August 14, 2009
• Un Gran Laboratorio, Baja Cero [in Spanish]
  Muy Interesante
  June, 2009
• Save the Krill, Save the Whales
  The Statesman Journal
  June 15, 2009
• Marine reserves for Southern Ocean saved with Britain's help
  The Times (UK)
  May 9, 2009
• Protecting Antarctica
  Miami Herald
  April 6, 2009
• Clinton to lead first-ever Arctic-Antarctica meeting [login required]
  E&E News
  April 6, 2009
• Polar summit to debate Arctic riches, environment
  AFP
  April 6, 2009
• White Noise
  The Age (Australia)
  April 6, 2009
• Ice Bridge Ruptures in Antarctic
  BBC News
  April 5, 2009
• US hosts Arctic-Antarctic summit as melting speeds up
  E Yugoslavia
  April 5, 2009
• Chile: Visitors Arrive From the Deep Blue Sea
  The Patagonia Times
  February 23, 2009
• Krill, the Antarctic Ecosystem, and CCAMLR [PDF]
  Marine Ecosystems and Management Newsletter
  December 2008 - February 2009
• South Korea says NO to the protection of the Earth's ecosystems [PDF; in Korean]
  (English translation)
  HANKYOREH Daily Newspaper
  December 18, 2008
• Krill Harvesting May Threaten Food Source of Whales and Penguins
  NaturalNews.com
  December 10, 2008
• Going on a Diet: penguins' primary prey reveals drastic changes in climate
  The Antarctic Sun
  November 26, 2008
• Blue whales and penguins at risk in krill harvest
  The London Times
  November 22, 2008
• Fisheries: Commission regrets lack of progress at IATTC and CCAMLR meetings
  EC Press Release
  November 14, 2008
• Bis zum letzten Krill (Until last krill) [PDF; in German]
  Wochenzeitung
  November 13, 2008
• Antarctic climate change tipping point warning
  The Courier Mail
  November 11, 2008
• How Organochlorine pollutants end up in whales
  NaturalNews.com
  October 21, 2008
• The krilling fields: study fears catastrophe in Antarctic food chain
  The Age
  October 14, 2008
• Aker Biomarine Apply for MSC Certification
  TheFishSite
  October 13, 2008
• Neptune Krill Oil, NKO(R), enters WALGREENS, the largest U.S. retail pharmacy chain, under the brand name Schiff(R) MegaRed(TM)
  Reuters
  September 15, 2008
• Penguins Marching Toward Endangered Species Act Protection; Court Deadline Set For 10 Penguin Species Threatened By Global Warming
  Environmental News Network
  September 15, 2008
• New laws needed in changing polar regions: experts
  China Daily
  September 8, 2008
• Changes in sea ice cover threaten krills
  The Times of India
  September 3, 2008
• Spring sea ice helps with krill growth and reproduction
  Australian Antarctic Division
  September 3, 2008
• Whales losing blubber, claims controversial Japanese study
  The Guardian
  August 26, 2008
• Penguins dumping arsenic in Antarctica
  NewScientist
  August 21, 2008
• La CCRVMA y Krill: Aplicacion del enfoque ecosistemico en aguas Antarticas (CCAMLR and Krill: Application of the ecosystem approach in Antarctic waters) [PDF; in Spanish]
  Diplomacia: The magazine of the Chilian Foreign Office
  March, 2008
• A New Twist in Penguins' Already Uncertain Future
  The New York Times
  July 1, 2008
• Race for Antarctic krill a test for green management
  Reuters
  May 25, 2008
• Tiny, pink crustaceans pose big questions in Antarctica
  E&E's Climate wire
  April 14, 2008
• Antarctica is in crisis due to Krill bait [PDF]
  Op-Ed, Cheonnam Ilbo
  (Korean translation)
• Penguins Helped and Hurt by Changing Climate
  NPR's All Things Considered
  March 31, 2008
• Ice shelf collapse: What does it mean?
  CNN International
  March 29, 2008
• Penguins on the brink?
  The News & Observer
  March 24, 2008
• Krill fishing threatens the Antarctic
  The Observer
  March 23, 2008
• Antarctica's Sea 'Babies' in Limbo
  NPR: All Things Considered
  March 18, 2008
• Hidden Depths: Antarctic krill startle deep-ocean scientists
  Science News
  March 1, 2008
• King penguins could be wiped out by climate change: study
  AFP
  February 11, 2008
• A Penguin Paradise, For Now
  CBS News
  February 11, 2008
• Humans join hunt for Antarctica's "pink gold"
  Reuters
  January 29, 2008
• ¿El año del Kril? (Is it the year of the Krill?) [PDF; in Spanish]
  Revista Redes & Seafood
  Jan/Feb 2008
• Licensed for Krill [PDF]
  Australian Antarctic Magazine
  December 2007
• Ecologists fear huge rise in krill catch
  Jamaica Gleaner
  November 5, 2007
• Bigger catch approved for Antarctic krill
  AEDT (ABC Online, Australia)
  November 3, 2007
• Britain to claim more than 1m sq km of Antarctica
  The Guardian
  October 17, 2007
• Bloc of House Dems demands ESA listing for penguins
  Environment & Energy Daily
  September 19, 2007
• Ocean Time Bomb
  The Sydney Morning Herald
  September 12, 2007
• Ozone Crack Widens — Antarctic Hole Appears Earlier
  Jamaica Gleaner
  August 29, 2007
• What can dying penguins tell us about the future of the planet?
  The Independent
  August 20, 2007
• Antarctic Research - $4.5 Mil in Special Projects
  Foundation For Research Science And Technology
  August 8, 2007
• Krill Industry Report
  Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition
  July 12, 2007
• Antarctic krill: Our little pals in a big fight
  Fredericksburg Freelance Star
  April 07, 2007
• The Age Of Warming
  CBS News, April 01, 2007
• Welcome Korea's First Abroad Environmental Protection Area
  HanKyoRe
  February 09, 2007
• Some happy that a family film flaunts dire facts
  The Boston Globe
  December 06, 2006
• Vacuuming up penguin chow
  The News & Observer
  December 01, 2006
• Not so happy penguins
  The Charlotte Observer
  December 1, 2006
• CCAMLR and Antarctic Krill: Ecosystem Management Around the Great White Continent [PDF]
  Sustainable Development Law & Policy
  December 2006
• The Ides of March of the Penguins
  Canadian Press
  November 30, 2006
• 'Happy Feet' Not So Happy
  ABC News
  November 28, 2006
• New technology threatens 'building blocks' of Antarctic Ecosystem
  Merco Press
  November 24, 2006
• Killer Fish Farms [PDF]
  WEBDIARY
  November 06, 2006
  (En Español: Piscicultura asesina)
• Pirates, vacuum-fishing threaten antarctic waters
  Reuters
  October 19, 2006
• Press Briefing on protecting Antarctica's marine life [mp3, 3.88 megs]
  October 19, 2006
  Read the transcript [PDF]
• Trawler 'poses threat to Antarctic life'
  The Daily Telegraph
  September 25, 2006
• Oceans need our attention
  North County Times
  September 19, 2006
• Tiny, innumerable, threatened
  International Herald Tribune
  September 15, 2006
  (En Español: Pequeño, Innumerable pero Amenazado [PDF])
• FIS on Norwegian Technology: Little krill to make big profits for fishery tycoon
  ANTARCTICA
  Friday, June 09, 2006
• Antarctic Krill provide carbon sink in Southern Ocean,
  British Antarctic Survey
  February 7, 2006
• You (and your brain), by Andrew Weil, M.D.
  Time Magazine
  January 16, 2006
• Voyages into the Antarctic Winter
  Oceanus
  April 25, 2005
• Falling Krill numbers — due to sea-ice decline — "threaten Antarctic wildlife"
  British Antarctic Survey
  November 4, 2004

Materials:

• Slideshow: AKCP presentation details importance of dispersing the krill fishery
  December 4, 2009