Sentence examples for krill from inspiring English sources
The word "krill" is correct and usable in written English
It refers to small crustaceans found in oceans, often serving as food for larger marine animals. Example: "The blue whale's diet primarily consists of krill, which it filters from the water."
noun
Any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.
Across the two areas are about a million pairs of Adélie penguins, more than a dozen species of whale, more than a third of the world's population of emperor penguins, abundant krill and fish species and the Ross Sea region's top predator – the toothfish, which can grow to two metres weighing 200 kilos (they've evolved special anti-freeze like proteins to survive in the frigid waters).
CCAMLR was formed back in 1982 over concerns at unregulated fishing of krill – the small shrimp-like species that provides the backbone to the Antarctic's food web.
Some researchers have theorised that the seals might suck water into their mouths and swish it past their closed teeth to capture krill.
However, if the price of fishmeal rises, a way might be found to harvest unexploited stocks of hard-to-catch industrial species such as krill.
The plentiful supply of krill at the point where the warm waters of the Kuroshio meet Arctic waters, which attracted whales, no doubt increased the number of hyoryumin picked up by Western ships.
Colouring agents are included in their pellet food because, deprived of its natural diet of krill and shrimp, the flesh of a farmed salmon looks an uninviting shade of grey.
And overfishing of krill, a tiny crustacean that other marine life feed on, threatens the whole eco-system of the region.Responsibility to protect marine life in the Antarctic region rests with a commission established under the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), signed 30 years ago as part of the Antarctic Treaty System.
Unfortunately, krill is central to the Antarctic marine food-web, and it is also an excellent source of nutrition for all of the species in the Southern Ocean.Another problem with salmon farming has been revealed in a recent paper that shows the damage salmon farms can do to nearby wild fish populations.
Increases in the number of Adélie and chinstrap penguins in the Antarctic were reported after predators (such as fur seals) and competitors (such as baleen whales and certain krill-eating fishes) had gone nearly extinct in the region by the 1950s from harvesting pressure caused by the sealing and commercial-fishing industries.
Although the populations of all krill-eating predators in the Antarctic had also declined, the researchers maintained that the loss of sea ice became a special concern for chinstrap penguin populations, which had once been wrongly believed to increase with decreasing ice coverage.
British Antarctic Survey scientists used a camera-equipped remotely operated vehicle in the deep waters around the Antarctic Peninsula to obtain images of krill the shrimplike crustacean that is a key element of the Antarctic food web at depths down to 3,500 m (11,500 ft).
