CREATURES - KRILL: A Vital Ocean Forage Species

The health of the oceans depends on a complex food web which ultimate depends on the sun providing energy for photosynthesis by tiny plants called phytoplankton which, in turn, serve as food for equally tiny little sea animals called zooplankton. They are feed for larger zooplankters one of which is the wildly prolific and abundant Krill that are vital to larger fish, birds, marine mammals and ultimately man.

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