AVAILABLE ON DVD OR VHS
The billfish documentary is about the billfish species — marlin, sailfish and spearfish — which draw millions of sports anglers to their waters around the world to engage in an always thrilling battle in which both can usually depart as victors.  But despite their legendary strength and their eons of history in the planet’s oceans, these magnificent animals are vanishing.  What’s happening to them and how they can be conserved is the subject of this enlightening and exciting made for television billfish documentary.

A Challenge For Survival will look for answers from the people who daily face the challenge on the water, under it and in the laboratory — the captain of a long-line fishing boat; a Pacific islander fishing to feed his family, scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service; marine biologists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science; scientists and conservationists at The Billfish Foundation, the National Coalition for Marine Conservation, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas and at the International Game Fish Association, among others.

The documentary is a voyage into a teeming, but vulnerable world of startling beauty and ferocity, that pits man against nature. But as the viewer will discover, it’s a world in which man will lose if nature is vanquished.

Running time is almost 58 minutes.  
Each DVD is US$24.95, VHS is $19.95; shipping and handling is $5.00 per unit shipped.

For more information on the documentary, visit www.billfishdocumentary.com. To inquire about purchasing, please fill out the web site's Contact Us form, or email Diana Udel at diana.udel@vta.com.