A pile of cod lies on a dock in Vancouver. Determining the quantity of fish caught under illegal methods has taken Dr. Pauly and his team almost 15 years.

In Yoff Senegal, a group of men work together to push a fishing boat up the beach. The search for missing fishing data takes Dr. Pauly and his team through sport fishing in the Bahamas, local fishing for cod in Canada and the black hole of illegal fishing in West Africa.

World renowned fisheries expert Dr. Daniel Pauly and Carl Hedderson head back to the harbor in Carl's fishing boat, the Mary Beneta. Dr. Pauly and his team of international experts have been working on an ambitious fishing investigation to prove we are dangerously overfishing the supply.