The new Ocean documentary provides a remarkable portrait of life beneath the waves. This World Ocean Day, it’s appropriate to follow the film’s gaze on climate change and destructive fishing – two major threats to the marine environment globally. Unfortunately, our most powerful and achievable tool to ensure fisheries are healthy for future generations—responsible fishery management—is entirely absent from the film’s narrative. Acknowledging and scaling up the implementation of responsible fishery management globally is an urgent priority we should unite to advance.

There is an old parable about a person looking for his car keys under a streetlight. He is asked by a passerby where exactly he lost them, and he replies that it was in a nearby parking lot. When the surprised passerby asks why he isn’t looking there, the man replies, “because the light is better here.”