Licence to Krill

In February 2013 a film crew led by documentary filmmaker David Sington will leave Montevideo in Uruguay for a voyage across the South Atlantic into the stormiest waters on Earth Their destination will be a rendezvous with the Saga Sea a hightechnology trawler operating in the Antarctic Ocean It will be a voyage to the latest and possibly last frontier between industrial civilization and the natural world in search of a mysterious sea creature which for decades has held the promise of transforming human nutrition krill Could the exploitation of krill improve diet across the globe or will it simply lead to the collapse of one of the most important ecosystems on the planet