format:High Definition
writer/director:Simon Schneider
producers:Trish Dolman, Lauren Grant
development financing:BC Film, CIFVF

What will the world do without fish as food?

Imagine an ocean with no fish and no seafood. Imagine this empty ocean in your lifetime. This is what Canadian scientists predict - the collapse of all wild fish and seafood by 2048.

Nature filmmaker, underwater cameraman and marine biologist Simon Schneider is going on a journey around the world and under water to find out if this is possibly true. And, if it is, what we can do to stop it.

Simon travels to his early fishing grounds on the West Coast of Canada in River's Inlet. Once teeming with wild salmon, now only a net full of sockeye salmon return to spawn. In the Gulf of Mexico, he searches for life in underwater "dead zones," areas with so little oxygen that nothing can survive, except for hordes of slimy jellyfish. In the Sea of Japan, he dives with jellyfish that have reached 1950's horror movie proportions. Most are bigger than Simon, some are bigger than a car.

Just when the future of seafood looks doomed, Simon's scientist friends take him to five ocean "hot spots" that maintain ideal conditions for thriving populations of fish. These hot spots may hold the answers to saving the world's oceans from impending collapse.

The question is, will the global community protect them in time and help secure humanity's primary single source of high quality protein - fish food?