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Re:Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young by codr7 on Sunday February 09, 2025 @06:34PM (#42995273)
Emptying the oceans of krill isn't a very good idea either unfortunately, and that's pretty much what we're doing.
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Re:Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young by BenjiWiebe on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:01AM (#42997107)
Some skimming of Wikipedia suggests that our total annual krill harvest is about 1/950th of the amount that predators eat of the main krill species per year.

Also usually the smaller the animal / the farther down the food chain, the faster they reproduce. And some more reading of Wikipedia suggests that krill can reproduce very quickly.

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Re:Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young by codr7 on Monday February 10, 2025 @09:59AM (#43001057)
That's one perspective.

I worked at a Norwegian company that ran 5 huge ships gulping krill 24/7 in the arctic region.

Once you see the scale of operation, it becomes pretty obvious it's a problem, and I'm pretty sure those numbers are manipulated to hide it.

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