Synopsis

Decades of overfishing practices by the tuna industry have pushed this fish to the brink of extinction. Fifty years ago, the world caught 400 000 tonnes of tuna per year. That figure is now close to four million. In Papua New Guinea, the human impact is severe: aboriginal tribes see their fishing zone become sterile and their ancestral land confiscated to make way for multinational corporations. Does the ambition of these companies to turn Papua New Guinea into the tuna capital of the world mean greater prosperity for the region or more poverty and the loss of several generations of tradition?