Ted Lamm: Citizen Reporter

• "The End of the Line" for Fish?

   

  Rupert Murray's new documentary "The End of the Line," based on the book of the same name by British journalist Charles Clover, presents a timely and shocking (but maybe not too surprising) look at the devastating overfishing of our oceans that has occurred over the last century. Through interviews with leading ocean scientists, local fishermen and concerned journalists from Asia to Africa to Alaska, the film explains how the majority of the world's edible fish will go extinct by 2048 if we do not change the way we fish.

  Evidently, the world's fish stocks have been steadily declining for the last 20 years, even as more and more boats are sent out each year. Nowhere is this more evident than in the North Atlantic, where cod once filled the waters off Newfoundland. Today, a moratorium placed on cod fishermen there in the early 90s has not yet been lifted-overfishing was so ...read full post

  
  
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