This is also for anyone else concerned with over-harvesting of krill for its oil.
These numbers are just quick and basic, but:
6 billion (estimated world pop.) x 1g (1000mg or Tim’s daily dosage) = roughly one metric tonne.

This number represents 0.004% of the 500 million tons of krill available. We humans could consume 100x this amount before we even came within one half of one percent of the total krill population!

But the numbers start to get even smaller when we look at:
1. nowhere near all of the 6 billion are concerned with their health.
2. an even smaller number yet are concerned enough to spend money regularly on a krill oil supplement (or any supplements).
3. people like me are forgetful and will not take our supplements each of the 365 days used to calculate these numbers.
4. if krill oil becomes a big enough industry, it will be respectively watched/governed as it grows. then, we would likely start farming our own krill for commercial use, leaving an even smaller impact on our cold-water oceans.

This is all based on the underlying assumption that it’s inherently bad or wrong for some of us to want to eat krill.

I think it’s important to remember that even though we can rationalize our impact on nature, we are still part of, and entitled to, what nature provides for us. As far as I am concerned, we are animals that want to eat krill, just like whales or other marine life…

Curious about your take on why Whole Foods Market banned krill oil supplements.

Here is one opinion: http://www.omegavia.com/whole-foods-bans-krill-oil/

Sounds like it’s a bit misguided.

What do you think?