First of all- well made documentary. While I definitely agree that we need to better control the global fishing industry to sustain economic and ecological balance, I believe there is some more information to consider that is not presented in this piece. As a student of simple mathematics and economics, I think we also need to take into consideration the effect of the size of the fishing industry's collective fleet. For example, while the amount of fish caught per hook may be on the decline, how many more hooks are in the water due to growing fleets? Just one point to ponder among others. This all just in my humble opinion.

"The End of the Line" is a well made documentary with a message that took me back to my days in Economics 101 and Thomas Robert Malthus (1766 –1834), a British scholar and influential writer on political economy and demography. Are we possibly seeing and living through his predictions in spite of the warnings ? Are we doomed to eating "algae burgers"....Malthus was widely known for his theories concerning population and its increase or decrease in response to various factors. His " Essay on the Principle of Population", published from 1798 to 1826, observed that sooner or later population gets checked by famine, disease, and widespread mortality.In this eye-opening documentary we see just how this is happening now. How greed and uncontrolled harvesting of the seas can actually lead to worsening of food supplies, and even the possability of a total extinction of the wrold fish population in spite of the consequences while over two centuries ago Malthus wrote:"...The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man..." "Must it not then be acknowledged by an attentive examiner of the histories of mankind, that in every age and in every State in which man has existed, or does now exist that the increase of population is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence and that population does invariably increase when the means of subsistence increase, and,... That the superior power of population is repressed, and the actual population kept equal to the means of subsistence, by misery and vice." Not a pretty picture.The good news is, that unlike so many other "gloom and doom" documentaries, "End of the Line" actually hands us the basic tools to reverse this disasterous future possability. You will have to see this film for yourself and do whatever you can to be a part of the solution and not a continuing part of the problem.