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In the season 2017/2018, lake drainage was observed on a scale that model outputs didn’t expect until the end of the century.
It’s a nightmare for fish breeders, causes damage amounting to millions, and is also a growing problem for wild salmon: the salmon louse is high on the list of notorious fish parasites.
AWI-physicist Peter Koehler, together with colleagues at Utrecht University, has now made a significant contribution towards providing a clearer picture of the sequence of glacial and interglacial periods over the last 2.6 million years.
AWI long-term time series shows: due to changed winds and currents in the Southern Ocean, more heat is transported from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to the depths of the Weddell Sea.
So far, the main objective of the krill fishery rules is to protect krill eaters. However, too little attention has been paid to possible risks for the krill stocks themselves. CCAMLR has therefore decided to develop a new krill management system.
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