Renewable biological resource

Question 1

What is the keystone species?

Answer 1

Krill

Question 2

What is its biomass estimated as?

Answer 2

More than the human race

Question 3

How big are the swarms they exist in?

Answer 3

2 million tonnes up to 400km squared

Question 4

What type of consumer is it?

Answer 4

Omnivorous

Question 5

What are humans uses for it?

Answer 5

Commercial harvesting (1970s)
Products for consumption, animal feeds or fishing bait

Question 6

Who has 50% of the annual catch?

Answer 6

Norway

Question 7

Who get 18% of the catch each?

Answer 7

South Korea
China

Question 8

What were there concerns about in the 1970s/1980s?

Answer 8

Boom bust cycles

Question 9

What threshold were there worries about exceeding?

Answer 9

Sustainable fishing threshold

Question 10

What was established in 1982?

Answer 10

CCAMLR

Question 11

Why are catch limits contested?

Answer 11

Norway Krill company says there’s no scientific evidence that the krill fisheries pose a threat to the Antarctic ecosystem

Question 12

What percentage of the total biomass around the peninsula has been caught?

Answer 12

0.4%

Question 13

What is the CCAMLR’s Total Allowable catch for each fishing season?

Answer 13

620,000

Question 14

Who are debates heated between?

Answer 14

Greenpeace NGOs and profit copmanies

Question 15

What do Greenpeace want Antarctica to become?

Answer 15

2 million km squared
Marine reserve

Question 16

What was signed in 2018?

Answer 16

Agreement to stop fishing in sensitive coastal parts
Signed by ARK

Question 17

Which phenomenon are krill susceptible to?

Answer 17

The extinction vortext