The mid-summer 2007 episode of "SEA-Inside: Pacific Northwest" continues its tradition of showing our oceans in many lights. Episode 10 opens with a one minute video titled "Puget Sound Matters" contributed by Seattle PBS station KCTS. Then the next 13 minutes are also spent in Puget Sound exploring the tons and tons of fishing gear abandoned on the ocean floor that doesn't decompose, but keeps catching and killing marine life. That video by the Northwest Straits Commission shows us what's being done to get rid of those deadly nets.
Then viewers will be transported to the waters off the south western coast of Africa for a swim with playful fur seals pups who unfortunately face the 2007 hunting season with a Total Allowable Catch of 80,000 pups (clubbed) and 6,000 bulls (shot). This video by Dutch filmmaker Edward Snyders illustrates how a somber topic can be treated with beauty and grace. Lastly, exquisite blues harmonica music and catchy lyrics accompany Al Vogel as he freedives below the surface to film the dancing antics of Blue Crabs in the Chesapeake Bay.
"SEA-Inside: Pacific Northwest" is a half-hour, bi-monthly TV series produced by Suquamish, Washington resident and underwater videographer John F. Williams. "The point of this TV series is to introduce people in the Pacific Northwest to their underwater neighbors," said Williams, "it's the only thing like it in the region. There is a lot of talk, and some action, to preserve our oceans and waterways. But before concern for our oceans becomes a bigger part of our culture, people will need to get to know our marine ecosystems better ... how they work, how important they are, and how stressed they are. The focus is on the Pacific Northwest, but videos from all over the globe are included, since similar issues are present in every ocean."
"SEA-Inside: Pacific Northwest" is a non-profit project co-sponsored by Still Hope Productions, Inc. and Northwest Film Forum of Seattle.
This series is now airing in Canada as well as in the U.S. Episode 10 will appear on 16 community and government access stations from Oceanside, California to Sechelt, British Columbia, including the Portland and Seattle metropolitan areas, reaching over 1.5 million homes.
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