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Recent trends in the fishery for Antarctic krill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2003

Stephen Nicol  and
Jacqueline Foster
Stephen Nicol*
Affiliation:
Australian Antarctic Division, Channel Highway, Kingston 7050, Tasmania, Australia
Jacqueline Foster
Affiliation:
Institute for Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart 7001, Australia
*
[email protected]
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Abstract

The fishery for Antarctic krill has been stable for a decade with approximately 100 000 tonnes being caught each year. There is continuing commercial interest in products derived from krill. An examination of patent databases indicates that the development of products for human consumption has been overtaken by the development of aquaculture, pharmaceutical and medical products. The development of products for aquaculture is most likely to be the factor that will drive growth in the krill fishing industry. Management of the Antarctic krill fishery has proceeded in advance of expansion and precautionary catch limits for Antarctic krill currently total 4.89 million tonnes ~50 times the existing harvesting level.

Keywords

Antarctic krillFishery
Type
Research Article
Information
Aquatic Living Resources , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 42 - 45
Copyright
© Elsevier, IRD, Inra, Ifremer, Cemagref, 2003

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