Antarctic discovery
(S.Z.P.A -Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, April 26. | British explorer-scientists! who have just returned from the Antarctic say that they; have discovered a vast area of rich food resources be-! neath its ice. Their research ship, the! John Biscoe, docked in! Southampton yesterday after two years work in the South. Polar region, and the team; returned with large quantities of marine specimens,; including spider crabs and molluscs.
Dr Richard Maitland Laws, director of the British Antarctic Survey, said that vast quantities of plankton were discovered, probab'.v because of the over-fishing of whales in the Antarctic. ••It is still too early to say how vital this discovery is,” Dr Laws said. “At this stage a.l our work is being done in the laboratories, but when the results have been analysed it is likely that man will turn to the Antarctic as a possible source of food supply.”
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33519, 27 April 1974, Page 15
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