G'day Ian, Laurie & other readers
Another check on this would be to see what has happened to Antarctic
Petrel numbers in NZ waters. In the 12 years that I worked in NZ and
was involved in the collection and assessment of dead sea-birds we
found a marked increase in this species, and it was commonly believed
that this was because their competitors - the krill eating whales had
been dealt a population blow.
Cheers
Mike
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Michael Tarburton
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On 23/01/2015, at 9:10 AM, Ian May wrote:
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Hello Laurie
Not wanting to upset "the believers", I cannot help but wonder if
these researchers ever considered that a decline of Antarctic Krill
could be caused by the exponential increase of Cetaceans that has
occurred over the past two decades. Is it true that a current
population
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