Awesome yet shocking video. Wow! The bit of the single fish biting the net looks like it is done in CGI ... also cool sound of dolphins in the background.

Pretty horrific though ;-(

Looking over the site for the first time. Interesting. The ultimate cost for doing things right needs to be paid for by the consumer. Government mandated monitoring needs to be done on all vessels... volunteering can't be trusted because the competition for survival in the fishing industry is often no different than the competition of some fish in this video trying to escape the net. As long as consumers demand lower prices and as long as fisheries rely on profit margins (as high as possible to offset bad years), there will be no progress without regulation. This is where capitalism fails in its purest form... it must be tempered with the right proportion of govermnental controls. All must be under the same rules. Rule breakers must be cited and fined in to compliance or extinction.

Nothing beautiful about net fishing... much better to catch fish on a rod and lure and battle it out. In my next life, maybe I'll be a sea mammal... but then someone will probably shoot me in the head when I steal their crab bait. Oh well.