Krill fishery in Antarctica shut down early due to ever-increasing rate of plunder by supertrawlers
The destructive krill fishery in Antarctica has been shut down early, due to the catch limit of 620,000 tonnes being reached on 12 August, 2026. This marks the second consecutive year that the catch limit has been reached months earlier than usual. It is a warning sign that the krill fishery in Antarctica is emptying […]
Direct confrontation with destructive krill fishing vessels in Antarctica welcomed by Bob Brown Foundation
Today, the Captain Paul Watson Foundation has directly intervened against Aker BioMarine’s krill supertrawlers in Antarctica. Bob Brown Foundation supports the courageous crew of the vessel Bandero, for their commitment to protecting Antarctica and its wildlife from the destructive krill fishing fleet. Krill are the foundation of the Antarctic ecosystem upon which whales, penguins and […]
Antarctic tourism must be internationally regulated and capped to protect one of the world’s last great wild places
New research from the University of Tasmania has revealed that a constant greenwashing narrative from the Antarctic tourism industry, which claims that people who visit the continent then become ambassadors and protectors of Antarctica, isn’t yet the case. As tourism booms in Antarctica, the industry remains entirely self-regulated. Bob Brown Foundation is calling on the […]
Public awareness campaign “SwisseKrills” launched to encourage wellness company Swisse to stop selling controversial and environmentally destructive krill oil supplements
Bob Brown Foundation launched a public awareness campaign today, featuring wellness company Swisse and their sale of krill oil supplements. Large, prominent, and satirical billboards and posters have gone up in Melbourne and Sydney, highlighting Swisse’s role in destructive krill fishing in Antarctica. This accompanies a new website and public awareness campaign. Bob Brown Foundation […]
Aerial protest for krill at global treaty meet
Today in Hobart, as the second week of the annual Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic and Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) begins, activists scaled the flagpoles and unveiled a giant banner reading: KRILL SUPERTRAWLERS KILL WHALES. The second week of CCAMLR is when nations consider scientific advice and negotiate proposals. Bob Brown Foundation is calling […]
Activists stage dead whale crime scene at the Commission for Conservation of Antarctic and Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to protest industrial krill fishing
Activists have today unveiled a life sized dead juvenile humpback out the front of the CCAMLR building calling for an end to krill fishing in Antarctica. While international delegates were entering the building to discuss the future of krill fishing in Antarctica, activists established a crime scene that showed supertrawler company, Aker BioMarine fingerprints and […]
Activists occupy roof of CCAMLR Hobart headquarters with an urgent call for ban on krill fishing as international meeting commences
Today in Hobart, activists from Bob Brown Foundation have occupied the roof of the Commission for Conservation of Antarctic and Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) building as international delegates arrived for the start of the annual treaty meeting. A large banner has been hung above the building demanding that CCAMLR ban highly destructive krill fishing in […]
Australia must protect Antarctic krill, not allow its destruction – protest begins at Minister Watt’s office
Today, activists from Bob Brown Foundation are conducting a sit in at the Minister for Environment Murray Watt’s Brisbane electoral office, demanding that Australia take action to ban krill fishing in Antarctica. Activists brought with them a life size juvenile humpback, to represent just one of the 8 humpback whales killed in krill supertrawler nets […]
Australia must act urgently to protect Antarctica and propose a ban on krill fishing.
New research, which urgently warns of irreversible sea ice loss, catastrophic global sea level rise, and species extinction, must be acted upon by the Australian Government. The research, led by ANU climate scientist Professor Nerilie Abram and co-authored by 20 other scientists, has been published in the science journal Nature. The report said it was […]
Global support for a ban on industrial fishing in Antarctica grows at UN ocean conference
Bob Brown Foundation has backed the international calls for a ban on industrial fishing in Antarctica (with a strong focus on krill fishing) at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice. “Australia’s Minister for the Environment Murray Watt is at the conference. He should commit our country to ban krill fishing and industrial fishing in Antarctica […]
