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Extinction: The Facts

In the last 40 years, the scale of global fishinghas dramatically increased

In the last 40 years, the scale of global fishing
has dramatically increased

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In the last 40 years,
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the scale of global fishing has dramatically increased.
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7 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
00:19:02
Uploaded
Jun 03, 2025
Genres
documentary
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BBC Studios

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With a million species at risk of extinction, Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, undermining our ability to control our climate and even putting us at greater risk of pandemic diseases.
At any one time, there could be as many as 100,000 trawlers - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
At any one time, there could be as many as 100,000 trawlers
Modern fishing is an industrial operation run by huge corporations, - Extinction: The Facts 00:11
Modern fishing is an industrial operation run by huge corpor...
Some sweep up the ground with a net that might be as big as this house. - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
Some sweep up the ground with a net that might be as big as ...
And you can put four jumbo jets in the mouth of a big trawl. - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
And you can put four jumbo jets in the mouth of a big trawl.
And everything that is in the path goes in. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
And everything that is in the path goes in.
The problem is, as you remove more and more of the adult fish, - Extinction: The Facts 00:14
The problem is, as you remove more and more of the adult fis...
There are ways of sustainably managing fish stocks. - Extinction: The Facts 00:04
There are ways of sustainably managing fish stocks.
Reducing fishing in an area can get a population back - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
Reducing fishing in an area can get a population back
But you have to choose whether you want to extract - Extinction: The Facts 00:10
But you have to choose whether you want to extract
And we have always opted for the big catch for a short term. - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
And we have always opted for the big catch for a short term.
Even where fish quotas are put in place, - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
Even where fish quotas are put in place,
And in some parts of the world, - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
And in some parts of the world,
The waters around the edge of fishing countries - Extinction: The Facts 00:05
The waters around the edge of fishing countries
We found that in China, - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
We found that in China,
And studies suggest that some British waters, - Extinction: The Facts 00:07
And studies suggest that some British waters,
There is now about 5% of trawler cod fish left - Extinction: The Facts 00:08
There is now about 5% of trawler cod fish left
This is a really big problem for the species of fish that prey - Extinction: The Facts 00:10
This is a really big problem for the species of fish that pr...
Across the globe, the pressures faced by the natural world - Extinction: The Facts 00:11
Across the globe, the pressures faced by the natural world
When I was a kid in the 1960s, - Extinction: The Facts 00:06
When I was a kid in the 1960s,
So I watched it go to six billion around 2000 or so, - Extinction: The Facts 00:12
So I watched it go to six billion around 2000 or so,