Genre: Documentary about declining fish population.
This is a documentary about overfishing and how that is depleting the worlds fish stock to unsustainable levels. The documentary looks at the history of large scale fishing and its effect on various fish species. It also gives us some views on what could be done to avoid this decline.
The movie is aimed at encouraging consumer activism, and that is all well and good. I can't imagine somebody who does not care about conservation, reading the description of this movie and picking it up. However the creators of this documentary, from time to time make stuff over dramatic.
One of the ways they try to ratchet up the drama is by showing fish being butchered in a gory manner. That I felt was just muddling the message, were they encouraging conservation or were they trying to turn people into vegans.
All in all though the documentary is informative. I was startled to discover that when I choose farmed fish in a grocery store, I wasn't really buying something sustainable. While the creators could have done a better job, it is still a documentary worth watching.
Rating: 3 / 5, Recommended.
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