What a truly remarkable film and an amazing man. Please watch this documentary... it's one of the best I've ever seen.
My wife bought and we ate some marlin the other day. I'm deeply ashamed, and wish I'd known more. Not only will I never eat it again, I'll be telling my friends to boycott marlin, and give the supermarkets some grief.
Sport fishing comes out of this sad story very well, and we should now, as anglers, be doing what we did for salmon in Scotland; pointing out that these fish are worth far more to the locals for tourism income than as food.
I don't want to give too much of the film away, but just this, the final narrative from wildlife film maker Rick Rosenthal, talking about Hemingway's book, The Old Man and the Sea.
"What touches me most is that Santiago, the fisherman, knew he had exceeded his limits to bring that big fish in in one piece. At that point, he regretted even killing it.
"Now, nothing seems to humble us. We really have the power to strip away all the big fish from the ocean, but in doing this, we just diminish ourselves."