Movie on the Extinction of Fish from our Oceans - All Eaten Up

[Annces]

Run time: 01:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e1O_skVhTY   Posted on YouTube: June 21, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 24, 2009 By DU Member: Annces Views on DU: 658

 
Narrated by Ted Danson and based on the book by Charles Clover, THE END OF THE LINE explores the devastating effect that overfishing is having on fish stocks and the health of our oceans. Scientists predict that if we continue fishing at the current rate, the planet will completely run out of fish by 2048. In theaters: June 19, 2009


Sea Shepherd article

"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.

Filmed over two years, the movie follows investigative reporter (and author of The End of the Line) Charles Clover as he confronts politicians and celebrity restaurateurs, who exhibit little regard for the damage they are doing to the oceans."

http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-090623-1.html

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. k/r

[Enthusiast]

2. K&R

This has been a long time concern of mine. In the face of this evidence the human population continues to ignore the problem. If we stopped overfishing now the oceans could recover with the species intact. Abuse the sea much longer and there will be no recovery possible because the species will be extinct. We are rapidly reaching this no return point.

[timeforpeace]

3. Decrease the demand. Every time you consider eating fish, remember this.

[raystorm7]

5. If I dont eat fish, then the other guys go and eat them =/ ... I'm gonna eat my fish.

[pansypoo53219]

4. luckily i do not like seafood(maybe allergic)

never eat it.

[Po_d Mainiac]

6. I hope that the focus

I hope that the focus is not just on the harvest, but also on the detrimental environmental alterations that mankind has made on our coasts and rivers. To a great extent, the nurseries have been trashed. Urban, agricultural, and industrial runoffs have soured what used to be a fertile marine environment.

Hydroelectric facilities block critical migration routes. Fishways and ladders may allow for upstream migrations, but the toll taken by turbines on anadromous species moving back to the oceans, have brought many species to the edge of extinction.

Restoring the bottom end of the food chain is critical to the revitalization of our oceans ability to feed us in the future. The sad fact is that we are over-harvesting the existing resource, but if the resource was healthy, it would be proving a great deal more biomass than currently available and in a sustainable manner.

Here is Maine, we've seen what happens when dams are breached and traditional spawning grounds are re-established.

http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/6497600.html

It was almost ten years to the day that Edwards Dam in Augusta was removed, and only a year since Halifax in Winslow met the same demise. These were relatively small power producers (4.3 megawatt combined) that blocked tens of thousands of Alewife, (herring) Striped Bass, American Eels, Atlantic Salmon, Tom Cod, Sturgeon, etc. Mother Natures ability to heal herself is phenomenal.

The oceans do have the ability of being a free grocery store, within reason. We must restore the free flowing characteristics of our major waterways. We have to stop developing our coasts on and around critical habitat. We must stop using our water ways as sewers. We must understand the the whole life cycles and the interdependence of varying aquatic species.

Don't stop eating Maine lobster. Their numbers are greater than ever. Why? The Cod, Haddock, Wolf-fish, Monk Fish, etc. that used to be abundant in the Gulf of Maine, that prey on juvenile crustations (like lobsters) have been decimated. Keep the open Ocean bottom dwellers off the menu till their stocks have a chance to recover.

Support gear limitations that don't decimate a habitat. Dragging for scallops, urchins, and sea cucumbers has destroyed bottom habitat in a way not dissimilar to ridge top coal mining. We must get away from harvesting with gear that keeps on killing long after being lost to storms or ship traffic.

I'll leave it there and hopefully there will be further discussion.

[indimuse]

7. knr!

!!

[Grinchie]

8. The only time I eat fish is when I catch one myself.

Other than that, I believe man has little to no respect for the way they catch fish, or the treatment of the fish after they are caught. If one could see the fish washing around int he bilges, being stepped on and otherwise putrefying in the hot sun, one would never want to eat them unless they knew how they were caught.

I have watched the fish stocks become more depleted year after year, and for the most part, fishermen are trapped into fishing simply out of the need to pay off increasing debts caused by inexorable inflation.

Fish Farming is also terribly destructive, with many species of normally unmarketable fish now being raked clean from the seas, only to be ground up to feed to the Farmed Fish, who happen to be predator fish.

The fish meal market is just following the Hamburger meat model, where they use animals from all over the world in one batch, but the fishburger is many different species of fish.

The Earth is dying, and it needs a good medium sized Comet to slap the shit out of man soon.

[Turborama]

9. K&R about time this got on the Greatest

Thanks for posting. I have to wait for the DVD to come out, unfortunately.