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If the controversial Netflix documentary Seaspiracy is to be believed, we should all give up eating fish now.
He's interviewed scientists, activists and conservationists to reach a conclusion that our oceans are in huge trouble, and the commercial fishing industry is largely to blame.
Today,
The Detail looks at the state of New Zealand fisheries with NIWA's chief scientist for fisheries Dr Richard O'Driscoll, and does some fact checking on the
Seaspiracy claims.
“They drew a conclusion which was simple and wrong,” says O'Driscoll.
Seaspiracy has raised global awareness of the state of the oceans, but it is unfortunate, he says, that it took a tabloid programme – he refuses to call it a documentary – that oversimplifies the issues, and where people make extreme claims, to get the conversation started.