Beautifully shot chilling new film on the soon-to-be lack-of-life in the ocean.
snips from an article about it:
Never mind "Gone fishing", the sign will soon have to read "Gone: fish" if we continue to exploit our seas.
That is the stark message behind The End Of The Line, the world's first major movie documentary to look into the state of seas and oceans.
Our love affair with eating fish, coupled with major technological advances in the fishing industry over the past 50 years, has led to a severe decline of more than 80% of the world's fish stocks, according to the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation.
And that's just an average. Some of our favourite fish, including cod, salmon and bluefin tuna, have been overfished to near extinction.
"This is one of the most important problems facing us today, and everyone has failed to grasp that,"
"This is the biggest environmental disaster you've never heard of,"
The world's largest trawling net could comfortably fit 13 Boeing 747 airliners within its mouth,
Trawling is the equivalent of ploughing a field seven times in one year.
"Because they are biologically different to us, because they are essentially invisible to us and live in invisible homes, we only see fish as a resource to be exploited," he explains.
"We talk about fish as 'stocks', not as living, breathing animals. And to be honest, it really shocked to me to see how red their blood is, that it's exactly the same colour as ours."
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