Another alarmist ecological documentary, the alarm in this case sounded over the projected extinction of the oceans’ edible population by the year 2048 or so, through the increased efficiency, capacity, and voracity of the world’s fishing fleet: “The thing is, we’re too good right now.” Director Rupert Murray follows the set pattern of illustrating a pre-existing book, this one by British journalist Charles Clover, illustrating it mostly with talking heads supplying corroborative information, plus some snippets of unstaged footage of flopping, squirming, bleeding, unblinking fish in case the mere idea of extinction weren’t perturbing enough already. The answers to the question of What We Can Do, posed at around the hour mark, stop optimistically short of setting to work on a rocket ship to transport the last survivors of Earth to a distant planet to start anew. Narrated by Ted Danson. (2009) — Duncan Shepherd
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