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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.
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Seaspiracy, the buzzy, frenetic, slick, sloppy, confused and gripping documentary that premiered on Netflix in March, is often wrong but mostly right. Led by Ali Tabrizi, and produced by the maker of Cowspiracy, Kip Andersen, the film takes you on a bumpy ride with pit stops at every imaginable ocean horror: from the slaughtered dolphins of Taiji in Japan to the sea slaves of the South China Sea, north to the fetid corpses of disease-stricken Scottish farmed salmon and out into the plastic-strewn blue of the great Pacific garbage patch. It then dumps you at the side of the road, kicks you in the ribs and shouts: “And, remember – stop eating fish!”
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Once upon a time, we chose seafood according to what we fancied or could afford, with little thought for sustainability. We now know better.
The Marine Conservation Society estimates 90 per cent of fish stocks globally are fully or overexploited, with sea life under added pressure from climate change and pollution. And now a new Netflix documentary, Seaspiracy, has brought the subject to the fore once more, not least for coming under fire from scientists and marine experts for cherry picking evidence and misrepresenting their views.