Krill fishing a sticking point in CCAMLR refusal to approve marine protected areas

The refusal of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to agree on new marine protected areas around Antarctica at its recent meeting was predictable, according to an expert on the krill-fishing sector, who sees jockeying for krill stocks in the Southern Ocean as a proxy in a wider geopolitical competition ... 

Photo courtesy of Bill Perry/Shutterstock