The Cove

Directed by
Louie Psihoyos

Produced by

Fisher Stevens Paula DuPre Pesmen

Written by

Mark Monroe

Starring

Ric O'Barry

Summary
the Cove is a 2009 documentary film that analyzes and questions Japan's dolphin hunting culture. It was awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2010. The film is a call to action to halt mass dolphin kills, change Japanese fishing practices, and to inform and educate the public about the risks, and increasing hazard, of [2][3] mercury poisoning from dolphin meat. The film is told from an ocean conservationist's point of view. The film highlights the fact that the number of dolphins killed in the Taiji dolphin drive hunting is several times greater than the number of whales killed in the Antarctic, and claims that 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan every year by the country's whaling industry. The migrating dolphins are herded into a cove where they are netted and killed by means of spears and knives over the side of small fishing boats. The film argues that dolphin hunting as practiced in Japan is unnecessary and cruel.

Social Issue the social issue about the cove is the illegal kills of dolphin in Japan migrating the dolphin in the cove and eventually kill them selling it in the market.