The Pristine Coast Book
$45.00
This Illustrated Screenplay published by Juggernaut Classics, is a complimentary book for the documentary film “The Pristine Coast” includes informatoin about why filmmaker, Scott Renyard, undertook this film as a project. It includes over 80 photographs and a 47 page bibliography that includes many obscure and rarely referenced documents.
10 in stock
Description
Open net pen fish farms provide ideal conditions for the amplification of parasites and diseases, which has led to widespread crashes of wild fish populations in the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans. These large-scale drops in wild fish have, in turn, adversely affected the food chain and, as a result, has impaired the carbon fixing function of the marine ecosystem. Open net pen fish farming therefore plays a critical role in ocean acidification and is causing our oceans to release more carbon into the atmosphere than ever before.
The Pristine Coast: An Illustrated Screenplay traces the evolution of this problem, and explores the public policy decisions taken – and not taken – that have contributed to the destruction of the marine biological pump and its crucial role in moderating atmospheric greenhouse gases.
The commonly held theory is that commercial fishing was the sole cause of the collapse of the northern Atlantic cod stocks and other key species. Scott Renyard challenges us to look again at this issue and asks, were diseases introduced and then amplified in open net pen fish farms the real cause of the decline? The evidence is clearly a yes.
“Persuasive and urgent!” – Vancouver International Film Festival
“Brilliantly told!” – Rafe Mair
