The Dark Hobby

Name: The Dark Hobby
Rating: 8.3

All the pretty fishes and the price paid to tank them.

Not Rated Documentary

Starring: Kimokeo Kapahulehua, Robert Wintner, Wilfred Kaupiko, Kaimi Kaupiko, Gail Grabowsky

Writer: Paula Fouce, William Haugse

Release Date:
May 21, 2021

Ratings:
8.3 / 10

Director:
Paula Fouce

Companies:
N/A

Overview

The Hawai'ian Islands are ground zero for the aquarium trade who capture and traffic reef fish for hobbyists’ tanks, decimating the reef, ocean and earth’s oxygen. Native Hawai'ians, conservationists, scientists, aquarium fish collectors and breeders are locked in a controversy over the stunning “treasure of Hawai'i” – the ornamental fish.

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