Netflix’s Seaspiracy fact check: The truth behind the controversial new documentary
Clara Gaspar
Updated: Apr 1 2021, 12:27 ET
SEASPIRACY has shocked viewers with its series of terrifying claims about the state of our oceans.
But the documentary has been described as “the worst kind of journalism” by Dr Bryce Stewart, a marine ecologist and fisheries biologist. So what's the truth?
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What allegations are made in Seaspiracy?
There will be no fish in the ocean by 2048
The claim from Seaspiracy that has attracted most criticism has been the proposal that the ocean will be empty of fish by 2048.
This dramatic statistic seems to have been taken from a 2006 paper by Boris Worm, a paper which Worm overturned in 2009 for being misjudged.