Whales are recovering from near extinction, but industrial fishing around Antarctica competes for their sole food source

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Sep 10, 2024, 4:02 pm862 ptsInterestingTop
The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world's largest feeding ground for baleen whales—species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century, whalers killed roughly 2 million large whales in the Southern Ocean. Some populations, like the Antarctic blue whale,…

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