Mike has a story containing the highlights of Dr. Boris Worm’s important interview at: http://www.naturalnews.com/025818.html

The original audio recording of this interview is available for download here: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Po…

You can see the full transcript at

http://www.naturalnews.com/026009.html

However, the key part of the interview involving Moxxor read as follow:

Mike: Let me ask you a question a little lower down the food chain here because this has been a debate that I’ve been involved with, and I’d like your opinion on it. What about the krill harvesting out of the Antarctic, which is harvested both for nutritional supplements and sometimes for animal feed products – or even agricultural product? Taking it out of specific feeding areas might be pressure on certain mammals? What’s your take on all that?

Dr. Worm: Oh, there’s no doubt that taking some of those foundation species that basically form the base of the food chain can be very risky. I know there was a big interest in fishing krill in the 1970s from the Antarctic, …and there has been a lot of concern about it for that very reason. That fishery never quite developed at the scale it was envisioned, and I know there’s renewed interest in this and efforts to revive such krill fisheries. And I think it’s not a good idea because it began there.

They form the basis for so many other animals, and recent research has shown that warming to climate change at the same time (as) fish(ing) them will drive them down even further and compromise the entire ecosystem. I believe a lot of people, they worry about it, and I hope there’s enough opposition to limit those fisheries.

Mike: Wouldn’t that also make it more difficult for whales to recover then, if their food source such as krill is struggling? Then that makes it more difficult for larger mammals to repopulate. Is that a reasonable assumption?

Dr. Worm: Yeah, yeah definitely, but for example penguins there’s good evidence that recent declines in the number of penguins – various species around Antarctica – is linked to the diminishing supply of krill. So far mostly from the warming trend, but if fishery comes on top of that, that could accelerate those declines. Again, I don’t think it’s a good idea.

A little further on, you can read this:

Mike: What about – I know a company that grows mussels, and they don’t feed them any fish. They just feed them – I think they let them feed phytoplankton.

Dr. Worm: Yes, they feed by themselves, and mussels are usually seen as a sustainable choice as something that’s not taking from the marine ecosystem. It’s replacing the wide harvest of mussels or shellfish, which can be very destr—… For example, scallop dredging is one of the most destructive forms of harvesting.

It just dredges up the sea floor and takes everything in its wake. Whereas the aqua culture of scallops or the aqua culture of other shellfish – mussels or other bivalves is a good alternative to that.

In summary, the implication is that Moxxor does not take away food from penguins  because Moxxor comes from a mussle that is aquafarmed, unlike the krill which is caught.

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