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Why Antarctic krill can feed hundreds of millions of people? Only 1~2 cm in size, but extremely high nutritional value

Antarctic krill can feed hundreds of millions of people

By ApostolakisPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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Antarctic krill

Introduction: Today's human beings have been separated from the toe but continue to survive, so also from the natural world to continue to explore resources, including water, and food. Among the many kinds of resources, food has become an important material for human survival.

Humans can go from any place or abundant food. Even in Antarctica can also be, in this region, there is a creature that can feed hundreds of millions of people, it is "krill".

What is the species of krill in Antarctica?

The environment in Antarctica is very harsh, amid severe cold. However, many creatures live on the continent, and krill appear in the spotlight after a certain season. For krill, scientists have also conducted research, but also that the number of krill alone at the moment to see, can feed the human population of hundreds of millions.

Krill is a creature of the ocean, divided into 80 species, krill body size is up to 1 to 2 cm, and some species of body lengths of up to 5 cm. The body of the krill is divided into two sections, the body structure is very simple, so the blood circulation ability is also open, krill body has several "luminaries", even if living in a dark environment, but also can move forward. Krill hunt phytoplankton for a living and eat their kind when food is scarce.

Why can krill in the Antarctic feed such a large population?

1. There are too many

When the animal can feed hundreds of millions of people, it also means that the number of such animals is very large, krill can meet this requirement and can also exceed human expectations. According to the understanding, krill is the bottom organism and the basic organism in the Antarctic ecosystem. It is the whales that hunt it for a living, and half of the krill in the Antarctic ocean area will be eaten by other marine life.

But even so, krill are still plentiful. The reason they are not going extinct is that they have a very strong ability to reproduce and survive. In the daily spring mating, and summer spawning, each time the number of eggs can reach several thousand, accompanied by marine life hunting, the number of reproduction of this creature, but also just enough to make up for the lack of numbers.

2. High nutritional value

The lack of food in the Antarctic, the animal and s do not have food, we must go to sea to find food, krill is a very nutritious food. We can see that the whales will eat a large swath of krill at once. In addition to marine life, humans are also very fond of this creature, because they are rich in protein, far more nutritious than beef, not only to supplement nutrition but also to promote the development of the brain.

When humans keep fishing krill, will it hurt the ecological balance?

In the eyes of many people, the number of these creatures is very large, so it is also worried about whether the dual capture of humans and marine life will go a frequent situation, whether will affect the ecological balance. In the current development, human fishing is restrained, and fishing krill has certain regulations so that the species can avoid disappearing.

Many creatures in the ocean are hunting krill for a living, if humans go for a long time to grab the food of marine life, then it will face the risk of extinction, thus affecting the ecological balance.

Conclusion.

Whether from the point of view of quantity or nutrition, the eye is a creature that is deeply liked by marine life and humans. So scientists believe that krill can feed hundreds of millions of people, but the constant salvage will inevitably still go to affect the ecological balance, so we say that appropriate fishing is possible, if excessive fishing, can only lead to some negative effects appear.

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