Researchers call for action to stop exploitation of Antarctic waters
The critically important Southern Ocean is not being properly protected by its stewards, a distinguished group of scientists from around the globe have noted.
As the Antarctic warms, krill move south to the colder ice shelves
“Krill is perhaps the largest fishing resource in the world’s oceans.”
Sailing the Southern Ocean – for science
IOF postdoctoral fellows and researchers, Boris Espinasse, Natasha Henschke, and Marina Espinasse focused on the cycling and diversity-function of zooplankton and metazoans
Antarctica’s biodiversity not doing as well as hoped
Experts, including IOF’s Deng Palomares, debunked the popular view that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are in a better environmental shape than the rest of the world.
Fish moving poleward at rate of 26 kilometres per decade
Large numbers of fish will disappear from the tropics by 2050, finds a new UBC study that examined the impact of climate change on fish stocks.