Why Antarctica Depends on This Little Creature I Climate Heroes
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
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Antarctica is best known for whales, penguins, and seals, but this vast and fragile ecosystem depends on a far smaller resident: krill. Around 400 million tons live in the Southern Ocean, where they provide a valuable food source and remove damaging CO2 from the atmosphere.
Despite their huge numbers, krill are at risk: from climate change and a rapidly expanding fishing industry. Why have humans spent decades harvesting them? What do omega 3 capsules have to do with it? How did one special krill teach science about their importance? And what might the decline of these small crustaceans do to our planet?
Our THANKS for some special krill insights and footage go to
🦐Blue Whale Study
🦐© Australian Antarctic Division (www.antarctica.gov.au/)
🦐Javier Arata, Association of Responsible Krill harvesting companies ARK, and AKER BioMarine for allowing filming on their vessels.
If you want to see more about the Association of Responsible Krill harvest companies, ARK, check out their website: www.ark-krill.org/media
#terramatters #terramater #krill #antarctica
🔗 Scientific sources:
Australian Antarctic Program
www.antarctica.gov.au/about-a...
PEW Trusts; „Scientists Deploy New Technology to Determine Krill Activity on East Antarctic Seafloor“
www.pewtrusts.org/en/research...
British Antarctic Survey
www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/kril...
ResearchGate; „Why Krill Swarms Are Important to the Global Climate“www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Book: “The Curious Life of Krill“
islandpress.org/books/curious... (author Stephen Nicol)
Semantic Scholar; “Biology and Ecology of Antarctic Krill“
www.semanticscholar.org/paper...
CCAMLR; Krill fisheries and sustainability
www.ccamlr.org/en/fisheries/k...
ScienceDirect; Research funding and economic aspects of the Antarctic krill fishery
doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022...
Kawaguchi & Nicol_2007_AS_Learning krill from fishery.pdf (this was direct from So Kawaguchi)
Krafft et al_2021_JCB_Area 48 Synoptic Survey 2019 copy.pdf (from So)
ARK (Association of Responsible Krill Harvesting Companies)
www.ark-krill.org
1MD Nurtition; “Is Krill Oil Good for Your Health? Here's What the Scientists Say“
1md.org/article/krill-oil-for...
National Library of Medicine; „Krill Oil for Cardiovascular Risk Prevention: Is It for Real?“
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Nature; „The importance of Antarctic krill in biogeochemical cycles“
www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
🔗 Video Quotes:
00:24 et al.
Krill fishing threatens Antarctic ecosystem, warn conservationists | Al Jazeera English
• Krill fishing threaten...
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Is krill oil better than fish oil? | Fox News • Is krill oil better th...
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I'd like to think Alan is still alive to this day.
me too 🦐🤩
Yeah, we can do that 🥲
@@terramater hi
I think that would be very bad for the future of krill
"All drains lead to the ocean"
Thanks for presenting this video. People like me never knew about these little creatures immense contribution towards ecological balance.
Hi VENKATESH!
Right? A lot of people don’t know about it, but they play such a big role!
Did you see our latest upload?
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@@terramater Thanks for the reminder. Just watched it, outstanding content as always. I just loved it.
Krill are a cornerstone species. One tied tightly to a tipping point.
I try to give a lot of leeway for pronunciation due to accents and region. Omega is definitely pronounced with a long O though, as all Greek letters began with the sound they represented. The short O was omicron. 👍
Oooh-Mi-Gawd. 🙄
Tiny yet big part for the ecosystem
Exactly! 🤗
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Awesome video!
The thing i love about this channel is it provides viable solutions to seemingly difficult to solve problems caused due to human needs without making the people look like the bad guys, rather focusing on bringing awareness to the problem and providing solutions that is basically a win win for both the people and the ecosystem.
This channel proves that any human activity if done responsibly and without greed, we can coexist with our ecosystem.
Hi Aasishwar!
Thank you so much for the kind words and the support! ❤️
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@@terramater Saved it and will watch it for sure!
@@aasishwarsaravana5748 Awesome! Thanks for your support! 🤗
Thank you for your service, Alan.
Alan was THE krill
@@terramater And a fine, fine krill he was.
Hi CrankyPants!
Sure thing!
Amazing. Thanks for sharing your great work. Have a peaceful Sunday 👍
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Thanks for watching! :)
Always the content and presentation was perfect. Keep doing the Good work ❤️❤️
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Great video! Will be rethinking my supplements!
We're happy to hear that! Thanks for watching! :)
thank You for this it's very informative !
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I use an algae oil supplement, it contains the long chain omega 3 fatty acids without most of the ethical issues.
Very informative video, thanks guys!
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We're happy to hear that! Thanks for watching! :)
@@terramater anytime!
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@@terramater sweet, I'll watch it shortly! :)
i love your videos , am completely grateful
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Great work!
Thank you! And thanks for watching it!
Awesome work :)
Thank you, Pranav!
There is vegan Omega 3 oil made from algae - the better alternative. Or just eat more seeds & nuts, e.g. hemp seeds contain high quantities of Omega 3
Even foods like kidney beans, chickpeas and avocado contain sufficient amounts of it
Hemp seed is far superior
@@bluejar5614 hemp seed powder used in potato chips, you get omegas and yet you would never know its there.. plus the good protein as well
@@bluejar5614 ???
It should be noted that algae oil has pre-formed DHA and EPA, while most nuts and seeds pretty much only contain ALA. We can convert enough ALA into longer chain omega 3 fatty acids to prevent death, but we aren't very efficient at it and do seem to benefit from supplementing the longer chain omega 3 fatty acids.
like always best education about something that i didnt know about💚
Hi Marina!
Thank you so much, we are so glad to hear that ❤️
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Amazing informations about krills
Hi! Thanks! Glad you liked it!
@@terramater no worries.
Great video
Thanks for watching! :)
okay because its you i will believe that Alan "escaped" into freedom ;)
Great Scott
This is heavy, Doc
I never really understood the Omega 3 pills now I like them even less
Omega 3's help to reduce the bad kind of cholesterol in our bodies. And they're important for maintaining health of certain tissues
@@absbabs6153 then eat it naturally not in capsules is my opnion. Unless of course there are really medical reasons why it is not possible. But not as a trendy supplement. And if you have a diet that forces you to do extra stuff for chelesterol then maybe rethink you diet.
@@6666Imperator A lot of the natural foods with the long chain omega 3 fatty acids most strongly associated with human health have similar environmental concerns, either from overharvesting wild fish stocks, or from excessive amounts t the disease and pollution created by commercial fish farming. Algae oil is a good alternative that has the same health benefits and doesn't rely on over-exploited ecosystems.
@@garethbaus5471 if you move the whole industry over to algae I'm sure it'll share the same problems sooner than later ;) In the end it always comes down to humans have to balance out their consumption and be mindful of their influence on the ecosystems. We are just too many for us to not do it.
@@6666Imperator Algae oil production is usually in relatively closed systems that aren't inherently tied to any specific ecosystem let alone such a critical one, and since the yield is relatively high with very few required inputs it would take an astronomically high population(roughly 100 billion or so humans) supplementing with algae oil before the ecological effects become comparable. The high DHA algae we currently have are one of the most efficient oil crops per unit area currently in existence, and we are talking about a level of demand that amounts to less than a tablespoon per person, unlike the world's oceans we are only needing to grow the varieties of algae that produce high amounts of omega 3 fatty acids, and our systems aren't iron limited or at risk of being destroyed by algae blooms which allows for substantially higher production.
I used to have krill in soups as a kid
Check your pronunciation on things like “photosynthesis”, “baleen”, and “omega”.
I was looking for a comment like this from the moment I heard "Photosynthesis" her pronunciation of "baleen" though, while possibly non-standard is acceptable (As far as I know)
Thanks for the video. But why isn't stated that the omega 3 fatty acids in krill (or fish) comes from the alga they eat so that we don't even need to fish krill for supplements?
Wow I didn't know this. Thanks
i read that fish omega is way different then plant omega (and more "effective") thats why the human rather buys fish stuff... sadly
@@TopZsi doble wow, and I just bought plant omega
Well this video sure was very interesting but very informative
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In Upper MI USA, there are so many places where you can just get truckloads of raw iron ore pellets from all the trains that carried the iron mined up there. Could that be broken to powder and spread with other manure products to fake whale scat and help the Krill pop recover so whale pop can grow. just a crazy idea. Not sure who would have money to do that lol.
Here in Malaysia we catch the krill for making the shrimp paste.
I'm sure it's nothing on the scale of Antarctic fishing. Overfishing is so understated in the media. Especially its repercussions.
@@spateri728 Very. Aquaponics is the solution, including indoor krill aquaponic farms which now exist.
@@dertythegrower Yeh indoor krill farms compared to the Antarctic seas...I like your optimism though.
Whales only eat roughly 50 days a year. They look for and eat the same krill pods that fishing looks for. Those Krill pods form because of massive loads of whale scat that is rich in the iron they need. When whales were overfished, we also saw a huge drop in Krill pop, that we didn't understand at first. baleen whales and krill are in a symbiotic relationship and the whole ocean depends on them. Kinda scary
Thanks for the insights!
I might have been confused. it might be the Krills food that feeds on the iron rich scat fields the whales leave. can't remem@@terramater
🙄 'Bayline' is gonna' be my next '[Photo-Syn] Thesis'. 🙄
What he's trying to say is that it's pronounced baleen
We NEED to have serious moderation in our fishing globally. It's insane the amount of sea life captured or harmed everyday, and at such a huge scale it's so hard to moderate and prevent people from overfishing or fishing in illegal areas. But there's just no other way, it's not at all sustainable, and on top of that we're damaging our biggest buffer against rising CO2 and climate change. Mess with the ocean life, and you mess with all life. If the leaders of the world actually want to help stop climate change, let's start by putting more regulations on the meat and fishing industry instead of looking the other way
So tiresome to keeping hearing the same childish wishes. The problem is *too many people* if you don’t admit that, you are not taking environmental problems seriously.
@@TheBooban that’s not at all the case. It’s bull shit that’s constantly propagated so you don’t value your life or your children’s. If industry was regulated, let’s say quartered, impact quarters and so on. Behaviour change in dominant to all due to our sheer numbers, which is a perspective you should adapt.
@@TheBooban that’s not even true, scientists have already found out that we could live sustainable on this planet with 10 billion people…if we completely make all of our food from plants…that’s the first step
@@TheBooban we can sustain the current population without fishing, so the problem definitely is a lack of regulation not the size of the human population.
@TheBooban my sweet summer child. We produce enough food annually for 10 billion people. We just feed so much of it to livestock and the rest is wasted or withheld for money until spoilage. There are hundreds of millions of pounds of cheese alone sitting in caves across the USA.
excellent
Hi Ismat! Thank you and thanks for watching our videos!
Krill oil gelcaps*
a'ight time to be mentally prepare for the collapse of the antarctic ecosystem
Ugh such a hard topic!
Krill are important to the Antarctic ecosystem, we need to limit krill fishing season
Then alan tell his krill community about his prison escape
He writes a book and it become a success
The krill community made a movie to honor him, called "escape from the lab" a maximum prison break
This would be def a blockbuster in the krill community!
What’s up with the pronunciations in this video? Is it a British thing?
Yes we do care.
Let's save them! 💪
"ah-mega 3"
Excuse me?
Climate change happens all the time. It was warmer than today during Roman times and later during medieval time. But the krill did fine. However Krill are massively threatened by fishing technology that didn’t exist back then.
Today we have much reduced krill. So much that whale numbers have hardly improved since industrial whaling stopped.
Just buy the algae version
How bad ass it that! A bunch of lil' critters, the largest the length of a pinky finger, with the same biomass as the every body connected to a pinky finger. Plus, half of em don't get done right every year. But those Allens, and Alicias, know how to get that population back.
That's Slayer! 🤘🏼
They're so cool!
I think Humans need to observe Nature & adapt our modern society/economy to it's structure. I look at it like as if you were observing Nature and you saw a ecosystem. Then you noticed that all the lowest members of the food chain were in terrible shape BUT the sharks, bears, whales, lions, wolf's, didn't really care at first and then the entire ecosystem fell apart around them. The global ecosystem would catastrophically fall apart because the smallest things in the food chain are key parts of the global ecosystem to function. Without them flourishing, so many things are effected, even the whales would not have any krill, zooplankton, phytoplankton, etc. to live off of. It would be a devastating chain effect to every other animal that relies on smaller things to exist in order for them to function. ~So~ (transfer this analogy over to human society/economy)
(Imagine a Bank 🏦🏧 okay 👍, say it's the best Bank, well now imagine how great a bank would be if all it's clients stopped being able to bring in $. So they don't have money to hold? Then everyone would pull their money out. So how much does the bank help the people? OR does THE PEOPLE HELP THE BANK? Yet which thing gets government assistance bail outs from the government to keep them from going poor? ) I truly believe we need to invest in the lowest income people in order for our society to flourish. It's really not asking much. It's just asking for a basic right that will keep the economic system healthy, keep tons of families from going homeless. I mean governments will spend money regardless, and it will be way more expensive, way harder to fix, if we let it get so bad that tons of peoples families fall apart with no safety net and then it's so much harder to ever rebuild yourself back up from there. Plus it's not good for the economy so why not just make a system of helping (just the lowest level living people) rather then having tons of societal problems just because government politics doesn't want to help the poor but wants to invest everything in the rich... ~But the rich NEEDS THE POOR, do they not understand that? Any investment in the poor will only come back around to help other avenues in the economic ecosystem and overall health and stability of our society.
(Personally, that's my idea on how I think we should approach our modern day society. Even low income people deserve basic aspects to their qualities of life.)
*{It's actually pretty crazy that good people, active, working people, are struggling so much just to barely get by. It should be a sign that our system needs improving. So people can have a safe place to sleep, at least. Poor people, low income people should be able to feel like they can exist too. Instead of this current situation where society seems to just demand and assume everyone is financially well off. When in reality a huge % of the population is considered Low income.}
Since krill poop helps sequester carbon, could we use human waste the same way?
I have a few kilos to share
She confused me at the photo-syntheesis part...then she said "Ahmuhga 3"
Is this a text to talk computer voice?
Circulation of life is most important thing for humanity feature's...
Omega 3 manufacturers never heard of Chia, Flax, Hemp, sunflower, Soy or Seaweed ? Or people are this obsess to eat animal products even when they do not taste it ?
everything is a threat to some important ecosystem, it makes me so mad
Moderation and local sourcing is the solution.. also hemp seed now legal has a lot of omegas these have..
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It‘s a bit depressing that humans must stick their fingers everywhere and even mess with something as „small“ as Krill. It is time to just leave animals alone, let them do their thing and take on an observing role! Just watch and marvel at how awesome animals are, instead of bothering, killing and eating them.
Happy animals means happy planet.
You don’t get it. Time to realize humans are the problem and we are too many.
Exactly
So agree
He was truly one in a krillion
That's hilarious 😂
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Not one in a krillion, but still fishtastic! ;)
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It's funny how such a small, relatively unknown animal (to the world population) is so important to our planet. If ur reading this and ur not subscribed just subscribe so Terra Mater can get their message out there. They seriously make great videos. I've been subbed for a while, one of the first 10,000 and they have never disappointed me.
Hi Steve!
Thanks so much for your kind words!! ❤️
These extremophiles are most likely to be the only ones to survive on Earth when the next asteroid or meteorite hits! They’ll hang back fertilizing our oceans. Amazing little guys. Pompeii worm and Picrophilus torridus (a thermoacidophile adapted to hot, acidic conditions), will be around with them. Wooohooo
They're amazing and so important!
There is a pretty good vegetarian alternative called Flaxseed but people won't buy that!
Flaxseed is a great source of ALA, and although we technically can turn ALA into the longer chain omega 3 fatty acids like EPA and DHA we aren't very efficient at it. There do appear to be more health benefits associated with consuming pre-formed long chain omega 3 fatty acids. Algae oil contains the long chain omega 3 fatty acids and is still a more sustainable and ethical option.
@@garethbaus5471 wow I didn't know about algea oil. Will check it, thanks!!
Edit: I checked and found it to be great. Thanks! I'll buy it.
Do you happen to know any source of vitamin d for Vegetarians?
@@xordux7 You can find non animal derived vitamin D3. I would recommend using vegan as one of the keywords when searching for it.
@Gareth Baus you can even just leave mushrooms in the sun before cooking and eating then. They MAKE vitamin D for you.
They eat this fish back home 😢
So... Humans longevity (life span) is correlated to the amount of degradation that we cause to the planet and ecosystem? wow... another thing
We should at least try. stop overfishing and care our planet!
Hi Jessie!
100% we have to!
Krill oil is extremely unnecessary to consume. People should just leave them be, it's sad to see how humans take reckless advantage of every last animal on earth.
Right?
Whales be doin' most of the poopin' that the plankton eats that the krill eats which got eaten by the whales to turn into poop.
You got it!
"Why Humans are a threat to literally Everything". Fixed your title you're welcome
Also did you know that videos on youtube purposefully mispronounce words because they know that it will lead to comments?
If humans can't save their home planets biodiversity do they themselves deserve salvation?
The whales must be stopped.
:(
This video really fails to make a persuasive argument for the claim made in the title.
Was hoping for something educational, got something political instead. Yawn
How is this political? It's based on research.
Shame on humans!!!