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September 30, 2012 (Afternoon)


Sunday, September 30, 2012, 2pm
Bonne Bay Marine Station
Norris Point, Newfoundland
Films:
Weather The Storm

Weather The Storm:The Fight to Stay Local in the Global Fishery

 Director:Charles Menzies and Jennifer Rashleigh
 Year:2008
 Origin:BC
 Agency:The Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC
 Runtime:36 minutes
Ocean resources are being hit hard. Enormous industrial "floating factories" follow the fish wherever they are abundant and move on when they have plundered the stocks.
The fishing communities of the Bigouden, on France's rugged Western coast, are determined to fight back. From the Paris fish riots of 1991, to the newly formed World Forum for Fish Harvesters, these small town artisanal fishermen launch a sophisticated and multi-faceted strategy to stay small and successful in the face of global competition.
Cry Sea

Cry Sea

 Director:Cafi Mohamud and Luca Cusani
 Year:2007
 Origin:Senegal
 Runtime:55 minutes
Senegalese fishermen are losing their livelihoods as a result of overfishing...

... particularly as a result of modern, hyper-equipped industrial fishing boats. They go the way of some formerly powerful fishing ports such as Lowestoft. The video traces the economic, institutional and technological drivers leading to their demise. Interviewed people, notably Charles Clover, author of 'The End of the Line', people from the European industry, and the fisherfolk in Senegal themselves are saying it can't go on like this, yet it is still remarkably difficult in practice to change course. It gives a glimpse at the demographic pressures and the need for immigration in the face of lacking alternatives. Unless together we steer a radically different course, the seemingly inexorable march towards more complete destruction of natural resources (and thus the present and future of people in these communities) cannot be stopped - certainly not by administrative means.