And while that summit is being held to coincide with World Oceans Day - so is a documentary being presented by OCEANA. It's called "The End Of The Line," and it challenges viewers to imagine an ocean without fish. According to Oceana, if humans keep depleting the ocean's resources, by 2048 we won't have to imagine. To educate Belizeans on the dangers of overfishing and lax conservation methods, the documentary outlines the devastating effects humans have had on marine life, and possible steps that can be taken to mitigate these effects.
It will premiere in Belize tomorrow evening - free of cost. Hipolito Bautista, Communications and Marketing Officer for Oceana, told us more about the documentary.
Hipolito Bautista, Communications Marketing Officer - OCEANA
"It's a powerful documentary that features over fishing commercially and globally. As you know the oceans and our seas are our food source and food security and it pretty much is showing that it is not an inexhaustible resource that we have."
"Scientist did a research and its finding that there is depletion in large fish stocks that we are consuming at this point in time and by 2048 if humanity doesn't change the way we utilize this resource it can place a lot of the major fish species in an irreversible state of collapse."
"I think Belizeans would be able relate because we need to see how it connects with Belize and we need to also safeguard our resources here. We need to manage properly how we tap into our seas. If we have an over capacity of fishermen, if we do not have sufficient conservation zones to ensure that there is a replenishment of fishes then equally can translate into problems for Belize; for the tourism industry and the economy etc. "
Screening begins at 7 o'clock at the Bliss.
