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1 of 8 11/30/2014 9:53 PM Response to the film The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Cha... https://ay14.moodle.umn.edu/mod/feedback/analysis.php?id=169...

(123) In your opinion, what are the three most important points that one should take away from the film The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World And What We Eat? - - I was very alarmed to see the amount to which commercial fishing has advanced , and began to grow drastically. It is interesting how commercial fishing is a growing business, but takes so much from the environment without there being a viable solution for giving back to what you are taking so much from.

- One of the larger points in the film that caught me off guard, was the fact that there is so little regulation on commercial fishing. There are ridiculous amounts of fish being taken, without strict laws enforcing them to fish at a sustainable pace.

- It also was sad to see how the increased demand for Tuna has lead to the demise of the species. The fish is now considered endangered and there is little being done to regulate the industry or help save the fish. With the price and demand for Tuna rising there is a severe chance that the numbers could fall to an amount which is irreversible. - One important point to take away from this video is what he found when he set out to find out what was happening to the fish in the sea. He said that trolling was like plowing a field seven times a year, which isn’t good. He said that when thinking about farming, and plowing a field seven times a year, you are not going to get very much to grow, at all. It stated that the oceans have been full of life for billions of years.

Another important point to be taken away from this video is that breaking the rules regarding fishing is one of the biggest problems facing the oceans. Illegal, unregulated and un-reported fishing is worth up to $25 billion a year. Fishermen do it because they can, because they are able to cheat the system and they don’t get caught. It was found that 50% of the cod caught in the North Sea was illegal.

One more important point to take away is that Alaska is one of the frontliners in battle to conserve fish. They said that the sea belongs to us, so we need to claim in back. In Alaska, the monitor the fishing to make sure they are fishing within the limits. For the boats in Alaska, each one is monitored and what they catch is also monitored. With that being said, we are able to react to what and how much they catch. The catch limits are set well below what the fish populations can stand, which is a large part of how they regulate to make sure that the population stays healthy.

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- 1. The sea is not an enexhaustable resource. The video gives alot of reasons why the sea is not a resource that will never be depleted. The main example i remebered from the movie is the Cod story in Canada. Canadains came to Canada in order to make a living from the high production of Cod fishing. When trolling begin popular for large fishing boats Cod was caught by the thousands. The narrator of the film describes trolling with nets is like plowing a farm field 7 times in a year. As people with less knowledge of the fishing activities taking place in the sea, we sea the ocean as a atmosphere full of living and activity but in real the trolling is creating a bare source for us. When trolling was around for a few years Canada's population of Cod became dangerously low. This forced the restriction of no fishing in that area by the governement. The incident was the cause of 40 thousand jobs lossed in Canada.

2. Local catch was decreasing but the global catch was increasing. This point was very interesting to hear. The fishing was poor for every culture locally but globally the fishing was increasing. Scientists investigated this issue and found the answer. Globally the fishing catch was decreasing every where but in China. This caused the scientists to look deeper into China. They came to the conclusion that China was involved in fraud. They were recording a higher number than what they were actually catching to make them look powerful. This was interesting because it shows there can be unethical or curupt activities going on in any situation. This was also very important because it created the awareness of the fish populations decreasing in the world.

3. Serving endangered species on the menu. The final point i will take away form the film is the study Charle Clover did on restaurants serving endangered species on their menu. After five years of trying to get a hold of a upscale restaurant called NOBU, Charlie finally gets time to talk to the owner. He asks the owner of the restaurant why he puts endangered species on his menu and does he have a not on the menu saying that food is endangered. The owner doesnt have much of an answer for Charlie. Charlie explains that restaurants having endangered fish on the menu should be no different from a restaurant serving cheetah or orangatang. This is a great point since people would get very upset if they had that food on their menu but no one thinks that way for fish even though we need to start or else we will deplete the resource.

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- 1. Fishing is occurring at an unsustainable rate all over the world. This means that many fish could become extinct within our lifetime. In Newfoundland, Canada 75% of all fisheries were over fished. There is an increasing demand for blue fish tuna because of the popularity of sushi, causing there to be a threat of extinction for that species. There is even the possibility of starvation in some area which rely heavily on fish for their daily food because of the possibility of extinction of certain fish.

2. Harm is occurring to our ecosystem because of the fishing methods. One specific technique which is harming the ecosystem is called trawling. This method uses nets 8in into the sea bed and then the boat is taken a certain distance. Everything is collected in these fishing nets and then all the commercially-unviable fish are just thrown away, causing major waste. This causes fishing to be one of the most damaging industries to our ecosystem, compared to many other damaging industries such as sand or gravel extraction.

3. So much of the solution to this problem is the consumer's responsibility. We, as consumers, must purchase sustainable seafood and fully understand the devastation of the fishing industry in our world today. The consumers must rise up to change how this industry functions and operates to bring about change. - 1. Humans are the most efficient predator our oceans have ever known. We need to create protected sanctuaries in order to stop ourselves from fishing every part of the ocean and to possibly save some species of fish.

2. Trolling for fish has the effect equivalent to plowing a field 7 times in one year. Almost nothing would grow in a field after being plowed 7 times in a year, so how do we expect fish to grow in a trolling area where we troll so heavily.

3. By the 1990's, the fisheries had reached global coverage, which resulted in the abundance in large fish globally has declined by a majority percentage, from 50-95%. They are spending their time arguing about what the number should be, when they should all agree that the number of large fish has declined, and then to move forward and figure out how to reverse what we have done.

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- 1. We as the human species are of the utmost dependance on our world's oceans, and the fact that we exploit them needs to be stopped this we know. But it hadn't occurred to me that "Trolling the ocean in the ways we do is like plowing a field seven times a year." It just does not allow for any sort of growth. Sometimes I think the real problem of our species is that the oceans are so big and vast, the majority of us just don't think/believe that they could ever be exhausted.

2. One case study really sums up what is happening with the world's oceans, overfishing. Cod fishing off the the coasts of northern Canada used to be a booming industry. The local communities survived on fishing. But with new technologies and faster/better ways to catch fish, the population of cod was run dry. Overfishing like this is happening in many places in the world. This was not just detrimental to the oceans ecology, but also to many many people who lost their careers.

3. In the early 2000's, the data showed that almost everywhere locally, the catch amounts for fish were decreasing, yet increasing in the global tally. This didn't make any sense, until it was discovered that Chinese officials were just making false data to show fishing increases each year in order to receive more political support. This really woke up the scientific community, because it showed that the global average was actually decreasing. To me, what is even more disturbing that realizing we have a decreasing global fish population is the fact that the people who can lead change, politicians, are not willing to do that. - The first main point of this film is that overfishing is changing the world forever. Modern day fishing is destroying the oceans ecosystems. The fishing is being done and fish are taken out at rates that are unreplenishable. According to the film, commercial fish species may become extinct within our lifetime. A second main point of the film is that that the estimates and fish socking numbers have been wrong for many years. Since the year 1950 over 60 million more tons of fish have been caught out of the fisheries than what were reported each year. Even though people knew the numbers being reported were wrong big companies just went along with it. Now due to that fisheries have collapsed and over 75% of fisheries have been over fished. A third main point of the film is that endangered species of fish are still allowed to be fished. The example of this is bluefin tuna, even though it is illegal to catch them they are still being caught and sold due to their high value. Technological innovations have even allowed for entire schools of bluefin tuna to be caught at the same time. - 1. Control our fishing practices 2. Limit our consumption of fish. 3. It's a pyramid effect, if one species died, those that consumes it will die also due to the lack of food.

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- 1. The most important point to me is that fish are being caught illegally whether it deal with the quota or fishing practice. This is not good for fish population because quotas were set to sustain the population, but if people are fishing over quotas, the fish population can go extinct. 2. The second point is that overfishing is not good for the ecosystem and local communities that live off of local fisheries. Overfishing can eliminate predatory fish, which allows other species to become more abundant which normally do not. Also, there is more presence of algae and plankton which is not good for marine life. Large fishing boats take a lot of fish away from communities that depend on fish for diets. 3. The last point is that there is some hope to help sustain fisheries. Consumers are changing demands by eating less fish, eating sustainably caught fish, and also eating smaller fish. Companies are labeling how the fish was caught and where so that consumers know. Also, companies are even serving fish that has been caught sustainably. This really helps drive the change for the fishing industry. - 1. "How many crops will grow if you plow that field 7 times a year?" 2. If we do not change our fishing practices, we will have an empty ocean by 2048 3. The decline in predatory fish means an increase in what they used to eat. - 1. We are wildly over-fishing all over the world, which is driving many fish species to near extinction. This is very likely due in large part to the introduction of widespread industrial fishing operations all over the world. However, there are largely differing opinions as to the level of over-fishing that is occurring worldwide.

2. The governments are voting to increase fish catches in bluefin tuna far far above the abilities for the species to recover or even remain stable. This is also occurring with several other species leading to the result that there will eventually be a crash in the supplies, and likely sooner rather than later unless practices change.

3. It's also shown that many fishing operations are simply ignoring any and all recommendations of catch limits and going far far above the limits being set. And in fact, the governments aren't doing anything to stop these practices from occurring in the first place. Many fisherman are just cheating the system because they aren't getting caught, and therefore the overfishing problem that we face is likely far worse than may have originally been thought. - The three most important points from the film The End of the Line are 1) the film illustrated extinction of the bluefin tuna, view, beautiful, huge, and exotic view of the sea was renewable, but with all overfishing, it is no longer renewable, not going to be same as past. 2) film shows the cost of fish, part of wild animal. As the technology involves, boats got bigger and catches increased. 3) In 1992, abundance of fishing had lead to extinction, ecological catastrophic, overnight 45 thousand people lost their jobs.

6 of 8 11/30/2014 9:53 PM Response to the film The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Cha... https://ay14.moodle.umn.edu/mod/feedback/analysis.php?id=169...

- One thing that is very important in the video is the fact that it's basically impossible to gain accurate data that can be useful for estimating how many fish are left globally. Scientists are all against each other and saying that the data is inaccurate. But they all agree that the future could hold a big problem for the industry. Secondly the super troughs are a big industry. The local fisherman don't stand a chance to these big money boats that move in and take all the fish. The local oceans health is damaged when these giant boats move in. The locals hate them because all they see is money with the fish and none of it goes back to the locals. Thirdly there is a huge amount of waste. The big boat fishermen take as much as they want and don't care if it gets eaten or not. The problem is that there is an endpoint to ecosystems. The shrimp will eventually run out, the whale population is thinning, and the jellyfish are growing which is another problem for the fishing industry. () Did You Like the film? - Like: 11 (84.62 %) - Didn't 1 (7.69 %) Like: - No 1 (7.69 %) Opinion: - Didn't 0 See It: (Rating) Overall how would you rate the film? - 1 star: 0 - 2 stars: 0 - 3 stars: 3 (23.08 %) - 4 stars: 3 (23.08 %) - 5 stars: 7 (53.85 %) - Didn't See It: 0 (Critique) Comments - - Overall, I thought this video was really interesting. I have never really thought about the impact that fishing has. My family has grown up fishing and I know there are differences between the fishing I have grown up with and fishing at sea, but I still never really thought about the impact and how some fishers would be cheating the system. - Fishing is one of my favorite hobbies so this was a very interesting movie to watch for me. It would be interesting to watch a film on vension and deer hunting or populations. - - - I always really enjoy learning about the ocean and what is in it, I almost wanted to become a marine biologist because of this.

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- I thought that this was a good film. I am allergic to fish though so it doesn't have as large of an impact to me as it does to a lot of other people. - - - - I really do agree that one of the best ways for the public to stop this overfishing problem is to honestly just consume less fish overall. I'm not sure that it is really possible to get the entire world's population to eat less fish, but It does seem to be one of the best ways aside from cracking down on the actual regulations in place currently on fishing worldwide. - -

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