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South Pacific

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The South Pacific ocean covers a third of the planet and still holds some of its healthiest fish populations, but this final episode of the series turns to what is wearing that health down. Tiger sharks travel hundreds of miles on a schedule timed to albatross fledging season, arriving to feed on chicks taking their first flights, and sperm whales cross the entire ocean basin in search of food and mates, two examples of the distances marine animals here must cover just to survive. Against that footage, the film sets the pressure from international fishing fleets, which are cutting into shark, albatross, and tuna numbers, along with other threats moving through these waters less visibly. Marine biologists and conservationists appear alongside the wildlife sequences to lay out what is being done to slow the damage, from fishing restrictions to species monitoring. The episode closes the series by treating the South Pacific not as untouched wilderness but as a system already under strain and still salvageable.