by Martin Dunphy on June 7, 2012at 3:21 PM
Vancouver Festival of Ocean Films: Fish Meat takes a quick—and surprising—look at what we can learn from Turkish aquaculture
Workers in one of Turkey's unsustainable saltwater "farms" for Atlantic bluefin tuna get ready to haul out a just-killed fish for speedy processing and shipment to Japan.
The Vancouver Festival of Ocean Films has had screenings in a real movie house only once before this year’s two-day installment at the Vancity Theatre, so it isn’t as well known as some of the other film fests that seem to roll around every other week or so in this town.
That’s no reason to give it the cold shoulder, though. There are three group screenings this Friday and Saturday of at least three films each, and their (typically) hour-or-less run times make it an easy way to sit, be entertained, and to learn about vastly different aspects of our ocean environment, both local and far-off.
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