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。

Krill fishing in the Antarctic has worsened the pollution of the pristine waters.

南极的磷虾捕捞加剧了对原始水域的污染。

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。

Industrial fishing for krill in the unspoilt waters around Antarctica is threatening the future of one of the world's last great wildernesses, according to a new report.

根据一项新的报告，在南极附近未受破坏的海域进行工业捕捞磷虾，会威胁未来世界上的最后一个大荒野。

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。

Brierley says that the find revolutionizes the view of krill biology.

布赖尔利说，这个发现革命化了磷虾生物学的前景。

NEWS: Penguin, Krill Populations in Freefall

新闻：企鹅和它的种群

Like all crustaceans, krill must molt in order to grow.

象所有甲壳纲，磷虾必须蜕变为了增长。

Don't worry. Whales don't eat clown fish, they eat krill.

别担心。鲸不吃小丑鱼，他们吃磷虾。

The ocean contains huge amounts of tiny sea-animals called Krill.

海洋里有大量的叫做磷虾的微小海洋动物。

After three weeks, the little krill has finished the ascent.

在三个星期以后，小的磷虾完成了上升。

Krill oils have also proved to have enormous health benefits.

磷酸虾油也给你的健康带来足够大的效益。

If South Georgia has a special dispensation, it is this river of krill.

南乔治亚有一种特殊的施与，它是磷虾的河流。

The ocean contains huge amounts of tiny sea - animals called krill.

海洋拥有巨量的叫做鳞虾的小型动物。

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。

The year 2004 was a poor krill year at South Georgia, and 2009 has been a very bad one.

2004年在南乔治亚是一个磷虾欠收的年份，而2009年已经是一个相当低谷的年份了。

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。

The fear is that devastating the krill population will set in train a series of changes that will affect other creatures.

一个担心是，损坏了磷虾种群数量将引起一系列影响其它生物的变化。

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。

When the gulf waters freeze over during the Antarctic winter, they hunt for the krill that lives underneath the ice surface.

在南极洲的冬天，海湾的水面都被冻住了，它们就会去捕捉冰层下面的磷虾为食。

Krill distribution was patchier than anyone had imagined, but dense schools of the small crustaceans were plainly here.

磷虾的分布比任何人设想的都更零散，但在这一带却密集地成群活动。

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。

Photo 7 ：Swarms of krill, a cornerstone of the entire Antarctic food chain, feed on phytoplankton that grows on the underside of sea ice.

图7： 成群的磷虾是整个南极动物食物链的基础。 它们以浮游生物为食，生长在海冰的上层。

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。

Krill spend their days in the depths of the sea, rising at night in what they believe to be the safety of darkness to snack on phytoplankton.

磷虾白天待在海洋深处，夜间浮到它们认为安全的暗处去吃浮游植物。