The Human Cost of the Global Overfishing Frenzy (Click image to access the trailer for Fatal Watch) When reviewing a documentary film it is important that you first sit with the impact of what you’ve learned and let it settle in before attempting to articulate your thoughts on the experience of watching the film. But when what you have learned is so dispiriting, the problem presented so intractable as to make you feel despondent and powerless to alter its fateful trajecto

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