Infographic: Less Nutritious Zooplankton

Infographic: Less Nutritious Zooplankton

A food web illustrates the importance of zooplankton in marine food webs on the left. On the right, graphs illustrate the decrease in cold-water copepods and the increase in smaller, less nutritious copepods.

In all three Atlantic bioregions, Zooplankton populations are changing.

Tiny crustaceans called Copepods are the most nutritious Zooplankton for growing Atlantic fish to eat.

Important cold-water Copepods are decreasing.

Smaller, less nutritious Copepods are increasing.