A 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.

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The film effectively recognizes the ways in which the fish population has been driven into decline, but doesn't acknowledge that privatization of the oceans will spur conservation through market reactions to scarcity (namely increases in market costs for fish). Policymakers can at best regulate and prohibit fishing, which simply creates a black market immune to regulation and law.