Fishing on the Brink

In a fishing village on the Gulf Coast of Florida, two cultures collide. Those that wish to protect an ocean in peril by restricting the harvest of fish and those who simply want to fish like their daddy did, and their daddy before him. Drew Phillips left the army and returned home where he became a Florida Wildlife Officer. His college buddy, Dr. McKenzie Haymer, heads the National Marine Fisheries office. They are both called to investigate a murder. Someone is killing dolphin. It’s a small southern coastal town. It’s a New England village. It’s a hamlet in Nova Scotia and a protected cove in Oregon. Fishermen throughout North America make a living from the sea, like their father did, and their grandfather, and his father before him. Who knows the bounty of the sea better than those that live, work, and depend upon it day after day? Yet we are told that we are overfishing specific species to the point of collapse. We know we did it to the whale, we did it to the sturgeon, the shark and cod populations are teetering on the brink, are we capable of not doing it again? Who can tell a generation of people that were raised to fish, that the sea has no future for them? We are Fishing on The Brink.