April 2, 2026 — An activist group said it deliberately rammed a krill fishing vessel operated by Aker Qrill.
The Captain Paul Watson Foundation confirmed that its vessel Bandero deliberately rammed a Norwegian-flagged trawler operated by Aker BioMarine in the Antarctic Sea. The escalation comes a year after the Antarctic krill season was closed for the first time ever due to the global catch hitting a ceiling of 620,000 metric tons (MT).