A show on Lates niloticus (Nile Perch)is on tonight and tomorrow called "Darwins Nightmare" on IFC/ Sundance channel. I havent seen it yet so I dont know if its any good, but my TIVO is recording it now. Check it out if you can.
Lates niloticus Show
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Just watched the show last night. This is NOT a fish show about the nile perch. It's more of a study of the socio-economics of the fishing villages around Lake Victoria, where the perch is their main business of export to Europe. Still very interesting nonetheless.
should have known, it was a sundance film, one of those extreme reality check shows, not much about fish, but did learn a lot. I had just watched the morning episode of the sweat shops in China now this, man was it a somber day! On the other hand, didn't know that there were so many nile perch produced from that lake, and it wasn't that they were thriving and producing food for the locals, it was the government and businessman exporting all the food leading to subsequent years of famine there, unbelievable conspiracy.
The key point in the film was to show constrast that while the "europeans" were feasting on the fillets, which fed like 2 million each day, to the point where they couldn't consume anymore, the locals that caught the fish, cleaned and prepared them, milllions of the locals were starved to death and dying of diseases, it was a gruesome reality show, if you're up to it!
The key point in the film was to show constrast that while the "europeans" were feasting on the fillets, which fed like 2 million each day, to the point where they couldn't consume anymore, the locals that caught the fish, cleaned and prepared them, milllions of the locals were starved to death and dying of diseases, it was a gruesome reality show, if you're up to it!