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BY FRANCISCO J. AYALA
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology University of California, Irvine
" The Antarctic krill Euphausia superba is a 2.5-inch shrimp extremely abundant in the Southern Ocean. The annual productivity is 100 to 500 million metric tons, greater than the total annual yield of all the world’s fisheries, which is 70 million metric tons. Harvesting this resource could greatly help to alleviate world hunger since it amounts ...
