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has a single call to action for its viewers: stop eating fish. The film hops from one issue facing the ocean to another showcasing dolphin slaughter, shark finning, industrial bycatch, plastic waste, and ocean acidification but concludes that each is a symptom of overfishing (or less damaging than it). Claiming that industrial fishing is doing more harm to the ocean than anything else, the film’s director and star, Ali Tabrizi, makes the case that well-meaning citizens must cease consuming fish completely in order to stop the destruction. To many marine scientists, however, this is a gross oversimplification.
The film’s most controversial claim is that there’s no such thing as sustainable fishing. “This is like saying that sustainable agriculture doesn’t exist,” fisheries biologist Bryce D. Stewart told Inverse. The Marine Stewardship Council, which certifies some seafood with a label indicating it was sustainably harvested a label that