The End of the Line: The World Without Fish
Scientists predict that if we continue fishing as we are now, we will see the end of most seafood by 2048.
Oceans without fish. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop, think and act.
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.
A number of comments trying to downplay veganism, conveniently overlooking the fact that plants produce oxygen and absorb CO2 (i.e. exactly what is needed to reduce the greenhouse effect). Animals also produce a vast amount of methane. It's a no brainer. Eat plants.
Human bodies are biologically suited to plant eating (Frugivore), look it up.
There are no valid arguments left in favour of eating animal products from any scientific or moral perspective, watching people attempt it is frankly embarrassing.
We saw this film in class today. More of our natural resources being depleated for profit.
Why don't you distribute this film for free on youtube? This information should be available to anyone!
I want to learn more about fish farms, but I could not watch this doc. It was much too painful. I know that enormous fish net, kill and process all on the same floating ship sea factories are providing "cheap" filet o fish for
McDonalds and frozen fish sticks. The floating fish processing factories were designed for profit in efforts to feed an exponentially exploding human population. We are literally eating and or consuming our way through our food chain. The head has eaten through the tail.
Why and how Japan insist that their seafood are mostly from Japan? All they do is buy from other fishing boat in the middle of the oceans and shipped it back to Japan. Did you m*rons know that Mitshubishi monopolize and control hundreds of thousnand of Tuna in their frozen warehouses, and thats only in 1 tuna spices. Can you imagine of other seafood that they all claim are from Japanese waters?
there would still be abundant cod stocks if they had stuck to traditional fishing methods..europeans fished these cod stocks for 500 years using traditional hook and line methods. corporate factory freezer ships equiped with otter trawls (huge nets dragged across the ocean bottom) came on the scene in the sixties..30 years later the cod stocks collapsed. once publicly traded seafood companies got involved it was all over in a relatively short time..traditional inshore fisherman and scientists tried to warn the government but we all know how that scenario plays out all over the world..
Key phrase "if we continue fishing as we do now..." Think about it. From an economic standpoint, why would a fisherman continue to take his boat out to seek out non-plentiful fish. A fish which would also become astronomically expensive.
Supply and demand is not a difficult concept but it demands looking at a resource dynamically. That is, as the supply decreases, the cost of bringing it to market increases which also drives down demand.
Long story short, the fish will be fine.
Like all things left to corporations & governments, it will die a quick death under their watch. These individuals lay waste to everything they touch without any moral thoughts. They only think of themselves & how they might profit. If we are going to stop these things we must stop supporting the people & companies that do these things.
Glad to finally see this doc. Also glad I've never eaten seafood. Team Fish! <3
Easiest way to solve the problem is to decrease demand. Ways to decrease demand not so easy. Tell people to have fewer kids and tell people to eat more anchovies like the woman in the docu said.
Only by controlling our own populations will we be able to save other species. We can not continue to over populate this planet & expect there to be enough food to feed us all. For far too long we have just taken what ever we wanted without any thought about the future. What are we going to say to our children & grandchildren when they ask us why when we knew what was happening we did nothing to stop it ? Sorry won't be a good enough answer. A species can only become extinct once, there is no second chance.
Robfin. Stopping meat and fish eating isn't a lasting solution. Making the production more sensible to everyone is, same with not endangering species because of our culinary desires.
Cutting the overpopulation problem is inevitable. China's already addressed that problem, at this rate the rest of us will follow, one way or another. The more people we have, the more food we need. Address that problem and you don't have to worry about making food out of everything barely edible.
Oh yeah and vegans, watch out for the wheat addiction. Even if it's something doc's and people deny, doesn't mean it isn't there. Wheat can be used to feed us, or it can be used to feed the animals we eat. If you ask me, do the latter.
I tell you, one day there will be greenhouses on top of apartment buildings, to give habitants some extra nutrition. Growing your own food and having more local not-so-big meat producers instead of few big factory-ranches producing for the whole country's supermarkets, is the key. Not because of it's effectiveness in a monetary sense, but because you don't have to buy it from supermarket where it gets wrapped in a polluting plastic box and transported with oil that will end one day. And moreover, because you learn to appreciate food more that way. God, if people wouldn't throw so much food to waste, and I'm not talking just about single households wasting food, but big markets throwing loads of stuff away because it didn't sell before going past date. At the same time many people eat moldy food from a trash can or in a better case, from food-aid lines. People have gained spiritual fat.
Tell the people you vote that you want shops to stop wasting any more food, and support small-community economy. Then we get some real results. Recycling and energy-conserving are good, but they don't address the root cause.
real solution is to limit the amount of fish and meat you eat. Lets face it, the whole world isn´t going to go vegan, eat fish and meat from realiable sources. The truth is that the majority of people just don´t know how to cook any other way. it´s jsut embedded on thier head to slap a steak on the grill. Vegeterian foods taste really good, you just need to find out how to make them.
I only eat meat on weekends, in a way, it´s how I give back to this planet. People just don´t value life enough, and how much peace it gives us to watch otehr forms of life existing, going about thier daily routines. Instead they see themselves as seperate from nature, and in the end, it doesn´t really matter, becuase one day, the selfish people will eat meat and have children who do the same, except those children will live in a world not so filled with the abundance of life, and variety that we have today, only real problem is that my kids will live in that world too.
If you think enough about it, you must realize the impact you have. now multiply your habits by 6,000,000,000. and thats how much meat and food is consumed on the world, the plastic wrapping of the products, the tin cans, it all goes somewhere as well.
Just educate your kids, the only way to change the future is through them, and they learn from you, don´t stop your habits, just curb them, and make sure your kids are more educated on world than you were at thier age.
1. recycling
2. renewable energies
3. money creation (economics)
4. simple market systems
5. Foods other than meat
All can be explained to a 5 year old child, just put some enrgy into doing it. donñt let the Mac D´s adds on TV do it, becuas they are the ones that will profit from thier ill informed choices.
What about this then... Why dont we eat humans!!
Think about how many people die everyday, we should just eat our own kind instead of decimating and massacaring other species. I will never understand how humans feel they are entitled to ruin millions of years of eveloution just to "enjoy" their meal.
If people really want meat to for the health benefits, whats wrong with human, apparently we are pretty close to pork :)
I think humans will have to resort to cannabalism anyway in the next 100 years or so, we really wont have a choice if we keep raping the animals of the earth this way.
finally able to watch it,
I like how everyone blames the politicians, money, countries, the restaurants, and so on, but its really every individual person who continues to consume fish, its really that simple,STOP EATING FISH, it is not a necesity at all, its a choice. The fishermen wouldn't be out there if people weren't buying the fish in the markets.
Human consumption is clearly out of control. Can we stop this? Only the most optimistic of people would say yes, but I pray they are right.
TO Atrophy, you seriously make me laugh, you try and make yourself sound so intelligent, and yet you can't even get the most obvious and simple thing.
"Vegan isn’t the answer, it just moves the destruction to a different venue. See above (post 59), not to mention the habitat that gets destroyed in the process of clearing arable land."
WHAT DO YOU THINK FARM ANIMALS EAT???? That is seriously the dumbest thing I have ever heard,
anyone who eats meat contibutes to exponentially more land being cleared to feed farm animals, and that includes farmed fish, any meat eater consumes much more soy than any vegetarian considering its the staple food for farm animals.
Over 80% of crops grown on this planet are fed to farm animals, just think, if everyone moved towards a plant based diet, we would only need a fraction of the land we are using now to grow food because there are less or no farm animals to feed. MAYBE we could even replant trees in all those corn fields growing cow food! 16 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of beef!
And going vegan is the answer, I don't eat fish, so I am not the problem, you are, that's a fact, you can't drag me into this issue.
USE YOUR HEAD, TRY PLANT BASED FOODS, THEY HELP WITH BRAIN FUNCTION!
Enough with pushing the rabbit food diets please !!
Vegan isn't the answer, it just moves the destruction to a different venue. See above (post 59), not to mention the habitat that gets destroyed in the process of clearing arable land.
The problem is the commercial market and the consumers driving it plain and simple. Fish farming, consumes what... fish to feed the fish. What happens to the overproduction and expired ? Fish, beef, pork, dairy, eggs, everything else... it gets tossed. Its waste, nothing but senseless waste. The same happens with your plant diets too. Overproduced grain, corn etc, sits in hopper cars and silos to rot. fresh fruits and vegetables that have been sitting on the produce counters too long, they get tossed. Dented cans never make it to the shelves. It has become common practice to toss food items that can't be sold because of blemishes, near expiry, Bakery day olds or damaged packaging in a locked dumpster, nobody gets it.
Wasted time, wasted money, wasted food.
No diet is superior or saving anything in the long run.
The only solution, grow it, fish it, hunt it yourself if you can. Deep freeze it, dry it, can it, bottle it, use it... don't throw it away.... period.
GO VEGAN, when we are facing a crisis like this is it too much to ask? I love vegan fish, shrimp and lobster from the local asian market made from organic soy and wheat. The ocean cannot handle an appetite like the humyn beings. The worst part about it, is that it's not going to be ok, no more fish, lets just turn to farmed fish, its going to be total ecosystem collapse, and 70% of our oxygen comes from the sea life in the ocean, GET CONTROL OF YOURSELVES! NOTHING TASTES THAT GOOD!
there is yet another choice. Going vegan. I wish they would have mentioned that.
the only solution i can see to solve this problem is for scientist to invent synthetic fish feeds that comes from plant or better grass or even pure chemical thats proven safe.., and just like what the farmers are feeding their pigs chickens(half natural ingredients half synthetic) the fisherman can do this to their breed too..
This should have nothing to do what the big corp.s are doing.It should be what YOU can do to rely on your natural survival skills by going out and catching YOUR own fish. I'm sure no matter what part of the world you live in you can go out and provide for yourself with a line and a baited hook.
Of course big corps are nasty little devils that are ruining our oceans and should be stoped . But you know as well as I do that's not going to happen.So indiviually we have to get off the couch and go catch them our selves. Fresh water or salt water!
Yes Heather my local fishing communitie is in slow failure, their fair quota is not there, while big factory ships clean out the cod as just a BY catch.
In all the generations these family's fished they did not kill the stock.
But hay, federal regulations are made by people who know nothing about fishing, some likely never seen the ocean or talked to a single fisherman. Its all done in corporate boardrooms thinking in the short term.
Oil and fishing don't get along to begin with, and oil companies have lobbyist working on their needs.
Add to overfishing the several dead zones, miles of floating garbage patches, and oil spills... I am amazed our oceans aren't completely dead already.
I agree it is the greedy commercialization of the fishing industry that is the major cause. Of course, I saw the price of most fish going up at the grocery store a few years ago, as well as my local fishing communities in slow failure, and I just stopped buying fish. As much as I love it, I love our living planet more. I knew the increasing price of all fish was a sign that something was wrong.
@Randy Wilson has said the entire mouthful. It isn't the local fisherman but the commercialization of fishing that has done to our oceans what no non-commercial venture could do. Fresh water fishing, while no commercial fishing is done to empty out the rivers and lakes, is being destroyed by the polution of companies dumping their wastes into this limited supply and making fresh water catches unsafe to eat and this is done due to the need to pay off their debts at the least cost of doing business and even if fined, the damage has already been done.
Some salmon runs have been destroyed due to the damming of those rivers that the salmon had used for the sake of drinking water by not allowing the dams to open during the salmon season yet any river downstream from a dam will open its floodgates on certain days of the week to accomodate water rafting groups ie: if there is money in the activity, it can be provided for, if not directly and immediatly then forget it.
The tap root of a tree is the source of a strong tree and the tap root of the economic system of most of the world is the reserve system. If it is a detrimental system, it must be eliminated. Any third world nation that has any resources wanted by the rest of the world is essentially taken over by the United Nations by the IMF, the International Monetary Fund (the biggest reserve bank of them all), by putting them in debt with no hope of paying that debt back and with the first missed payment the systematic confiscation of resources begins.
Australias monetary system may be different but I would ask you to look at the new parlement compound built there and ask yourself why it is so much larger than Australia needs. It is because it will be the capitol of the New World Order being established by the United Nations. An island, even as large as Australia, is more easily defended from the rest of the world and the country itself has sufficient resources available to not have to rely on imports for survival.
I can only hope I am wrong but I don't believe I am.