How to Save a Dying Ocean

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The Gulf of Mexico continues to gush oil just as a whaling controversy threatens to land Australia and Japan in international court for killing protected species. Meanwhile, another less-publicized but arguably more cataclysmic oceanic disaster continues to worsen. Overfishing threatens to destroy most of the world's fisheries within a matter of decades. But while it's proven difficult to save the gulf or save the whales, we know how to save the fish: Stop treating the ocean like a public bathroom, says Christopher Costello, a professor of natural resource economics at UC Santa Barbara. Director Louis Psihoyos and his team of filmmakers embarked on an elaborate sting operation to expose Japan's illegal dolphin hunters. The result is a documentary called The Cove, which took home the Oscar for best documentary. And days after the Academy Awards Psihoyos was back stirring things up. Using the same cameras that were used to expose illegal dolphin hunters, Psihoyos and his team busted The Hump, a Santa Monica, California restaurant that had secretly been serving sushi made from the endangered sei whale. %26ampquot;Everything in the ocean from the great whales to dolphins to plankton is being jeopardized,%26ampquot; Psihoyos tells Reason.tv. %26ampquot;We're raping and harvesting the ocean unsustainably.%26ampquot; Overfishing %26ampquot;could mean the end of certain species,%26ampquot; agrees UC-Santa Barbara's Costello. He points out that about a third of the world's fisheries have already collapsed, and many more are heading toward %26amplt;b%26ampgt;...%26amplt;/b%26ampgt;How to Save a Dying Ocean