Reports

Antarctic Climate Change Impact – Climate Change in West Antarctic Peninsula

 (GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 32, L19604, doi:10.1029/2005GL024042, 2005) – Meredith, M. P., and J. C. King (2005), Rapid climate change in the ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula during the second half of the 20th century, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L19604, doi:10.1029/2005GL024042. Continuing with Tharos’ reports on climate change impact in the South Antarctic region, this …

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Antarctic Climate Change Impact – US National Security and the Threat of Climate Change

This is a challenging report issued in May 2014 by the CNA Military Advisory Board. Much has been written about the climate change impact on South Antarctic commercial activities and overall species’ habitat within the South Antarctic region.  This report adds interesting insight through the lens of the military. The report states that the projected climate …

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Impacts of Global Warming on Polar Ecosystems (Impact in Krill Condition)

    (by Mr. Victor Smetacek from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Germany) The “food chain of the giants” = diatoms-krill-whales. The current understanding is that after the near extinction of the stocks of great whales around Antarctica by the mid-1960s, krill biomass was expected to increase because of decreasing …

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Harvesting Krill Ecological Impact. Assessment. Products and Markets (UBC 1995)

This 1995 report from the University of British Columbia challenge Krill biomass assessment technologies, e.g abundance versus acoustic, the latter used for fish larger than krill.  It gathers various authors’ contributions on this matter. Modeling krill population dynamics is subject to considerable uncertainty, and with it its impact in commercial activities and catch quota allocation models, …

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Updated Tharos’ Mission

In our mission to be a reliable, knowledgeable and high-caliber participant in the krill industry, Tharos is shifting part of its original mandate. In our 25 years’ work in the krill industry we have mostly delivered Tharos’ proprietary engineering, technical and commercial reports and services. We have supported academia, Governments, end-users and distributors with our …

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Biological and Chemical Impact of Krill Fishing Seasonality (June 2014)

Tharos’ patent of the first ever solvent-free onboard (at-sea) krill oil extraction process, used more than 30-years of research conducted at sea and on shore. Krill unique biological and chemical features affect fishing and by default oil extraction yield and oil quality.  This summarized report outlines part of this research. Finding the best part of the …

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Distribution of krill between South Georgia and Bouvet Island in the Southern Ocean

Master thesis from the University of Oslo, Norway, Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science. A 2009 thesis by Dag Lennart Nielsen which analyzed large and small-scale distribution of krill (Euphausia superba) between South Georgia and Bouvet Island in the Southern Ocean. This work is in line with current CCAMLR activities to balance preservation and …

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Quality and Safety of Krill Protein Concentrate

This is a Master of Science in Human Nutrition Thesis by Joseph Christopher Gigliotti. It was submitted to the Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry and Consumer Sciences at West Virginia University where professor Jacek Jaczynski, PhD. has done a significant contribution to the understanding of South Antarctic krill and its applications in human nutrition. It is a …

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