Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this

week coming to you from our Book of the Year 2018 tour, live from the Union Chapel in London.

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anichesinski, Andrew Hunter Murray and James

Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts

from the last seven days at a no particular order. Here we go. Starting with fact number

one and that's my fact this week. My fact is the world's oldest krill was nine years old

and was called Alan. He was called Alan. He was a nine year old krill and Alan would

have lived to have been older but unfortunately during a routine cleaning of his tank he escaped

and fell down a drain. So yeah it's a shame because he possibly had many more years. Maybe

he survived the drainfall as well, maybe like finding Nemo. Like he might still be out there.

Finding Alan is a less good title. He might have been more than nine as well because when

they caught him he was an adult so he probably at least two more years on top of that.

How do you escape as a krill because mostly your water based on you but presumably he had to

sort of struggle out along some surfaces. They were changing the tanks so they were cleaning the

water out so it was in the process of taking the lid off and exchanging waters that Alan thought

finally after nine years. It's my chance. Yeah but unfortunately there was a drain right next to it.

Well he was kept in his own jar for all those nine years by guy called Tom Ekkader who is

like one of the best krill scientists in the world. I mean you all know him. Yeah. I mean we are

actually going to do 20 minutes about krill but they found out that he was this age probably about

11 and that is about five times longer than any krill have been known to be alive in the past.

I was the first time he found out that they might be this old and actually that had huge repercussions

for the krill farming industry and the world. So there's an interesting thing about krill so they

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