Environmentalist Dennis Alvey recently returned to Providence Bay after confronting a Norwegian krill fleet in the Antarctic. Aboard the Bandero, Alvey used aggressive tactics—including snagging nets and "gently bumping" a trawler—to protect krill, a keystone species vital to the ocean food chain.
PROVIDENCE BAY—Krill are tiny creatures with a big impact. Their biomass is among the largest in the oceans and over half of their numbers are eaten by whales, seals, penguins, seabirds, squid and fish each year. In fact, those tiny krill, no larger than your thumb, make up in their abundance play an outsized role in the ocean’s food chain. Without them, that chain would collapse, causing catastrophic damage to the ocean’s health.
Dennis Alvey, 61, of Providence Bay is all too aware of the important role the krill play in the ocean’s food chain and, as a lifelong environmental activist and a devotee of his mentor Paul Watson (he of Green Peace and Sea Shepherd fame), Mr. Alvey spent the past several weeks aboard the 65-metre Paul Watson Foundation vessel Bandero in the Antarctic Ocean confronting the Norwegian krill harvesting fleet.
Just recently returned from Brazil, Mr. Alvey reached out to The Expositor to share the story of his adventures on the front lines of extreme eco-activism—adventures that some characterize as “eco terrorism,” but that doesn’t faze the activist. The situation, he asserts, is nothing short of dire.
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