The End of the Line ~~ Imagine a world without fish
The End of the Line ~~ Imagine a world without fish
The powerful film The End of the Line uses brilliant underwater footage, sweeping cinematography and interviews with world leading scientists, activists and fishermen to tell the story of the devastating impacts of overfishing on our oceans and the simple solutions to the problem.
The ultimate power of ‘The End of the Line’ is that it moves beyond doomsday rhetoric to proffer real solutions. Chillingly topical, ‘The End of the Line’ drives home the message: the clock is ticking, and the time to act is now.
The End of the Line, the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. Sundance took place in Park City, Utah, January 15 – 25, 2009.
In the film we see firsthand the effects of our global love affair with fish as food.
It examines the imminent extinction of bluefin tuna, brought on by increasing western demand for sushi; the impact on marine life resulting in huge overpopulation of jellyfish; and the profound implications of a future world with no fish that would bring certain mass starvation.
The Vulnerable Bluefin Tuna
Filmed over two years, The End of the Line follows the investigative reporter Charles Clover as he confronts politicians and celebrity restaurateurs, who exhibit little regard for the damage they are doing to the oceans.
One of his allies is the former tuna farmer turned whistleblower Roberto Mielgo – on the trail of those destroying the world’s magnificent bluefin tuna population.
Killing Bluefin Tuna
Filmed across the world – from the Straits of Gibraltar to the coasts of Senegal and Alaska to the Tokyo fish market – featuring top scientists, indigenous fishermen and fisheries enforcement officials, The End of the Line is a wake-up call to the world.
THE END OF SEAFOOD BY 2048
Scientists predict that if we continue fishing as we are now, we will see the end of most seafood by 2048.
The End of the Line chronicles how demand for cod off the coast of Newfoundland in the early 1990s led to the decimation of the most abundant cod population in the world, how hi – tech fishing vessels leave no escape routes for fish populations and how farmed fish as a solution is a myth.
The film lays the responsibility squarely on consumers who innocently buy endangered fish, politicians who ignore the advice and pleas of scientists, fishermen who break quotas and fish illegally, and the global fishing industry that is slow to react to an impending disaster.
The End of the Line points to solutions that are simple and doable, but political will and activism are crucial to solve this international problem.
We need to control fishing by reducing the number of fishing boats across the world, protect large areas of the ocean through a network of marine reserves off limits to fishing, and educate consumers that they have a choice by purchasing fish from independently certified sustainable fisheries.
Marine Reserves
Fish Farming
The film has received financial support from:
The Marine Conservation Society
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Merci mon Ami Phil
réveillez-vous!
I am not the 1st philosopher to note that our species often chooses not to see past the end of its nose.
Most of humanity actively or at least incidentally, supports increasing its population. With the result that our population is always growing larger.
Some of the common methods we are pro-population growth but anti-fish/environment:
-Superstition bias against family planning,
-Tax breaks for having kids, such as Putin recently paying Russian women ~$10,000. for each baby, or The U.S.A. forcing non-breeders to pay for other peoples’ kids’ educations,
-Choosing to have children,
-Supporting political parties that support the above, often in the name of “family values”.
Terrific prophetic post about human ‘short-sightedness’ (a euphemism, to be sure).
Human shortsightedness, as HI says, and selfishness. Consumer capitalism that cares only about itself and the corporate businesses/government that cares only about wealth. Today a radio documentary was talking about the oil spill in Alaska – 30 years ago? still poisoning everything, including humans. So the Gulf oil spill, and how many more? When will we ever learn? This is both sad and scary. Thanks for posting this Phil :groovy: :love:
Thank you my friends,
The selfishness of humans is destroying planet and its inhabitants. People are not concerned with knowing how will be the lives of the others after their own dead. They think that only one person can’t change influence the life of million others then they are concerned only with their wellbeing.
They have to remember that the destruction of habitats, oceans, lives, etc…and their own health have already started a long time ago, because of millions people who think the same as them.
I often hear people who say : “If I do something bad to the planet, why governments don’t ban this or this”. “If Governments don’t ban it, so I don’t feel guilty of culpable”
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You’re right Martha and HI, this is bad and scary.