• --
  • B+
end_of_the_line_l
AQUATIC CATASTROPHE A fish face-off in The End of the Line

Credits

Release Date: Jun 19, 2009; Rated: Unrated; Length: 83 Minutes; Genre: Documentary
B+

In the last two decades, the technology of commercial fishing has begun to overwhelm the world's oceans. With nets the size of canyons, video sonar, and electric bottom-trawlers that literally scour the ocean floor, fishermen are no longer simply ''fishing.'' They're subjecting threatened species to the equivalent of carpet bombing, and this passionate ecological documentary, The End of the Line, spells out the problem in clear, urgent, prosaic terms, from the threatened extinction of the regal and coveted bluefin tuna to the 
ongoing disaster of farm fishing, in which 40 percent of the world's undersea harvest is used merely to feed farmed fish. B+


  • Print
  • Del.icio.us
  • Google
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • Digg
  • More
 

Add Your Comments

The rules: Keep it clean, and stay on the subject or we might delete your comment. If you see inappropriate language, e-mail us. You must have javascript enabled to submit a comment.
--
Change/Edit your grade
characters remaining