A Thriller And A Shocker -- All About Fish

The Cove
[2009, Director: Louie Psihoyos, Run Time: 90 mins]

An American dolphin trainer-activist hears of a small Japanese fishing town where thousands of dolphins are slaughtered every year. But the ring of secrecy is almost impossible to breach. The Cove tells the story of how a team of divers, a stuntman, an air force engineer and industrial designers used advanced spy technology to make a documentary about something Japan did not want the world to know. Described as an environmental thriller.

End of the Line
[2009, Director: Rupert Murray, Run Time: 86 mins]

End of the Line takes up the exposé of journalist Charles Clover that blind overfishing is depleting the ocean’s fish stock to the extent that commercial fish stocks will become extinct sooner that we think; that fish are a finite resource and that we are all responsible for denuding the ocean.

You might like to have a look at Darwin's Nightmare by Hubert Sauper which explores an environmental experiment that turned disastrous in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, but how it proved a great benefit for globalised trade. [See online]