Thousands of penguins have already died from a shortage of krill.
数千只企鹅因为磷虾匮乏已经死亡。
Shrinking krill population and rising temperatures could force Antarctic whales to migrate.
磷虾数量的减少和气温的升高可能迫使南极鲸迁徙。
This means that king penguins, which feed on fish and krill in this body of water, have to travel further to their feeding grounds, leaving their hungry chicks for longer.
这就意味着，以这片水域中的鱼类和磷虾为食的帝企鹅，必须去到更远的地方觅食，而饥饿的幼崽则需要等待更长的时间。
A global campaign has been launched to turn a huge tract of Antarctic seas into ocean sanctuaries, protecting wildlife and banning not just krill fishing, but all fishing.
一场全球性的运动已经展开，目的是将大片的南极海域变成海洋保护区，保护野生动物，不只禁止捕捞磷虾，而是禁止所有的捕捞活动。
No one thinks krill are yet endangered, but no one fully understands them.
没有人相信磷虾也处于濒危，但是没有人完全了解它们。
One type of plankton that seems to have great harvest possibilities is a tiny shrimp-like creature called krill.
一种似乎具有很大收获可能性的微小的虾状浮游生物被称为鳞虾。
Plankton is essentially anything living in water that is too small to swim against the current, including krill and algae.
浮游生物是生活在水中的一切，包括磷虾和藻类，它们小到不能逆流而行。
For example, Price said, the 160-metric ton blue whale evolved a huge mouth –allowing it to eat millions of tiny krill each day.
普莱斯表示，以蓝鲸为例，这个重达160公吨的大块头进化出了一张巨大的嘴，每天能吞下成千上万只小磷虾。
One of the most recent objects of concern is a small, shrimp-like creature called krill, which is now being fished in a big way.
最近令人担忧的是，一种被称为磷虾的类似小虾的小生物，正在被大规模捕捞。
The blue whale packs on its nearly 200 tons of body mass by consuming enormous quantities of tiny krill-some four tons every day.
蓝鲸靠每天吃大约4吨的巨量磷虾来维持近200吨的体型。
This could be a good thing, of course. More algae might mean more krill, and that might mean more whales and other large sea animals.
这当然是个好事，更多的藻类意味着有更多的虾类，更多的虾类意味着将有 更多的鲸类和其它大型海洋动物。
So we speculate that the amount of krill and available food has decreased, and maybe as a result the whales are starting to go scouting for food.
我们推测或许正是因为磷虾数量的减少，才促使鲸鱼向更远的海域去寻找食物。
With the ability of jellyfish to mix water now proved, Dabiri's team is focusing on krill and other tiny crustaceans that number in the trillions.
水母混合水体的这个能力现在已经得到证实了，达比利的团队正专注于数量在数万亿以上的磷虾和其它微小的甲壳类动物。
Samantha Price: The blue whale which is –we think –is probably the largest ever living mammal… eats these tiny, almost microscopic krill and plankton.
萨曼塔·普莱斯：蓝鲸可能是有史以来最大的哺乳动物，它们的猎物——磷虾及浮游生物——体型却非常微小，几乎用显微镜才能看见。
To discover the answers, Katija hopes to study everything from jellyfish traversing a Pacific island's saltwater lake, to migrating krill swarming a Canadian inlet.
为了揭示谜底，卡迪加希望能够研究所有的海洋生物，不管是穿过太平洋岛屿咸水湖的水母还是洄游时云集在加拿大水湾中的磷虾。
To discover the answers, Katija hopes to study everything from jellyfish traversing a Pacific island's saltwater lake, to migrating krill swarming a Canadian inlet.
为了揭示谜底，卡迪加希望能够研究所有的海洋生物，不管是穿过太平洋岛屿咸水湖的水母还是洄游时云集在加拿大水湾中的磷虾。
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