The End of the Line - Fish Farming

The End of the Line is a powerful film about one of the world's most disturbing problems - over-fishing. Advances in fishing technology mean whole species of wild fish are under threat and the most important stocks we eat are predicted to be in a state of collapse by 2050.

The film points the finger at those most to blame, including celebrity chefs, and shows what we can do about it. This is not just a film, it is also a campaign - for sustainable consumption of fish, for marine protected areas to allow the sea to recover, and for a new ethic of responsible fishing.

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[Folkboat11]

Miss Morton said pink salmon will go "extinct" They didn't. She said Atlantic salmon will decimate wild spawning grounds. They havent. She says BC salmon farmers are Norwegian. They're not. Does she ever get it right? You bet, when she said.

"I don't have a great set of credentials."

[Folkboat11]

@mynor4596 40% goes to growing fish. The other 60% goes to feed poultrey, pork, beef, and your pet fluffy. At estimated feed rates of 1.2lbs to grow 1lb of salmon, 3lbs for 1lb of poultrey, 5lbs for 1lb of pork, 8lbs for 1lb of beef, and we Know you are not going to eat Fuffy. Where do you think wild fish by-products and waste should go to feed the world? Makes sense to me to grow the most with taking the least.

[nmfvideo]

If you are interested in seeing how fish farms affect the sea floor, then have a look at this film, (which we filmed with our mini-sub) from under a fish farm in Norway and at some of our other videos. When the sea floor is white as it is in this video it is unhealthy and dead.

The film is called: Undervannsopptak: Signsholmen

[Folkboat11]

@Bluebeltonproduction The Pacific Salmon Forum PSF - a non-biased scientific body ordered to look into the sea lice issue found that the studies Morton was citing (her own), were incorrect. Co-author Marty Krkosek agreed. Morton and Krkosek were asked to “recalibrate”. Morton concluded that “the survival of the pink salmon cohort was not statistically different from a reference region without salmon farms.” That’s right – no extinction. Not even a difference.

[Folkboat11]

@Bluebeltonproduction When you get it right, then you can come back to me. Untill then, you did made me laugh :)

[Bluebeltonproduction]

@Folkboat11 Your a tool. What do you have to say about the Fraser river sockeye return disappearing a couple years ago? How about ISA? Go back to your fish farming job asshole.

[Folkboat11]

@goosee91 Add one more didnt get it wright, to your self trained biologist who is funded by an American marketing foundation. Apparently according to morton, ISAv, was apparently here in B.C, but now gone. “Reckless allegations based on incomplete science can be devastating to these communities and unfair to the families that make a living from the sea.”

-BC Minister of Agriculture Don McRae Perhaps if she stayed in school she would know better. Follow the money.

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[goosee91]

@Folkboat11

Alexandra Morton is an educated biologist who has more knowledge on her specific area of British Columbia than nearly any scientist currently working. In addition she has published numerous PEER REVIEWED journal articles with scientist around the world. Moreover her research is publicly funded and lacks influence from business or government.

And might i ask Folkboat11 why would Morton be wasting her time if her data was falsified.

[pappasierra]

Some gross over-generalisations made. Yes, single largest component in most fish diet products is fishmeal, however, much is also utilised from waste products of processed wild and farmed fish. Additionally, much research is underway in utilising plant based proteins derived from plants like soya to minimise reliance on fishmeal products. Best solution IMO is the closing of the nutrient cycle, starting with farming algae, fed to baitfish, fed to platefish, increasing trophic levels in stages.

[Folkboat11]

It may be the end of the line for the so called Alaska fishery. Want Wild? Alaska Seafood Processing creates dead zones

September 28, 2011

Trident Seafoods Corp. to Pay $2.5 Million to Resolve Clean Water Act Violations and Spend More Than $30 Million to Upgrade Processing PlantsSettlement to reduce discharges of seafood...