

Two women, one ocean, and a fight that'll make you rethink your seafood order.
Explores the battle between New England's close-knit fishing communities and a coalition of environmental conservationists. Focusing on two women whose lives and livelihoods have revolved around the fishing business, the film illuminates the debate that pits the economic needs of a community against the health of our oceans.
Direction
Patient storytelling that trusts you to pick a side.
Production
Intimate access to a world most never see.
Director
Courtney Hayes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
New England fishing communities have lost over 80% of their workforce since 1950, making this a document of a vanishing way of life.
The directors spent three years embedded with families who initially suspected them of being undercover NOAA agents.
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