Author's origin: Germany.
Recording location: Spain.
Duration: 3 minutes.
Special mention from the jury for ecological awareness message.
During an investigation conducted alongside the NGO Elasmocean in Europe's largest fishing port, Vigo, it was documented how hundreds of thousands of blue sharks, many of them juveniles, are caught annually for their fins. Despite demands from more than one million EU citizens to ban this trade, the practice remains legal and continues to destroy entire species.
This short film is an urgent wake-up call about the need to end the shark fin trade in the European Union and a cry in defense of the oceans and their most vulnerable species.
