The companies fishing for Antarctic krill have harvested so much so quickly that the season had to close in August 2026, three months before it was scheduled to end. That’s the second consecutive year of an early closing.
The fishing industry has said these developments are evidence that the management system is working as intended: Once the 620,000-ton limit, called a “trigger level,” is reached, fishing must stop. And the evidence indicates that the krill fishing boats do stop when the trigger level is hit.
