FATAL WATCH weaves the stories of four marine observers and investigators exposing the true cost of overfishing. Combining exclusive footage with access to key investigations, the documentary shows how tuna has become a prized commodity, lives are sacrificed and marine observers are dying to tell the truth.
FATAL WATCH is honored to be partnering with JOURNEYMAN PICTURES on the global sales and distribution of the film.
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No one has told the story connecting the disappearances of marine observers to crimes on the high seas and the global fishing industry. The cases in FATAL WATCH expose the lives of marine observers, and what truly occurs on the high seas, miles away from any enforcement authority. FATAL WATCH will lure the audience into the larger crisis-- the rapidly increasing scourge of overfishing.
The observers are the last eyes on the seas, monitoring the corruption, greed and disregard for a sustainable future that is the industrial norm for much of the fishing industry.
Fatal Watch: Tim McKinnel and Bubba Cook on the dark underbelly of tuna fishing
"FATAL WATCH is a brilliant film”
Interview on Radio New Zealand with Conservationist Alfred "Bubba" Cook and high-profile New Zealand investigator, Tim McKinnel talk to Paddy Gower about the dark underbelly of the international fishing industry and the need for greater transparency, accountability and change.
Listen to the interview here.
Interview with co-directors
Katie Carpenter and Mark Benjamin
FATAL WATCH casts a critical eye on the fishing industry as a whole, touching on management and transparency issues that the filmmakers see as intertwined with the observer safety problem.
Read more of the Mongabay interview here.
Every second, more than 800 kilograms of wild fish are caught illegally at sea- that’s like filling up 200 fully loaded Boeing 747’s every day.
