Question

A food web in a certain ecosystem consists of seals that feed on krill, which in turn feed on phytoplankton. Extensive krill fishing reduces the krill population rapidly. What would be observed in the ecosystem as an immediate effect of this?

Answer 1

A) The seals would decrease in number and the phytoplankton would increase in number.

Answer 2

a decrees in the population of the animals that prey on the krill and an increase in the population of the animals that the krill feed on.