Ocean at Risk Story aired: Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Fisherman will gather in Oregon later this week to protest an unprecedented move by the Bush administration to curtail ocean fishing in southern Oregon and the northern California coast. This move is an effort by the government to restore depleted salmon stocks.
The fishermen say they are being unfairly blamed for a failure to address real causes of salmon decline: dams, water warming, and water and habitat degradation.
Filmmaker Julia Whitty would agree to a point.
She says the world's oceans and its inhabitants are at a tipping point that could have drastic consequences for the rest of the world.
She details a laundry list of threats in a recent article in Mother Jones Magazine -- They include global warming and pollution -- but she doesn't let the fishing industry or fishermen off the hook.
