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- Seapiracy claimed that oceans will be empty of fish by 2048 even though this prediction has been strongly refuted for over 10 years. Other similarly contentious claims were made throughout the film in order to expose the darker side of the fishing industry and suggest that the only way to save the oceans is to stop fishing altogether.
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Feb 20, 2024 · A marine scientist criticizes Seaspiracy for exaggerating and misrepresenting the facts about overfishing, sustainable fisheries, and aquaculture. He recommends another documentary that provides a more balanced and scientific perspective on the ocean issues.
- Jake Kleinman
Apr 8, 2021 · Is Netflix's Seaspiracy film right about fishing damaging oceans? 8 April 2021. By Reality Check team,BBC News. Share. Lucy Tabrizi. Ali Tabrizi, director of Seaspiracy, observing a shark...
Apr 13, 2021 · A marine biologist exposes the factual errors and misleading messages of Netflix's Seaspiracy, a documentary that blames industrial fisheries for the biodiversity crisis and promotes veganism as the solution. Learn why sustainable fishing exists, why ocean plastic comes from land, and why anti-Asian tropes are harmful.
- Daniel Pauly
- Grace Henry
- 46 per cent of the waste in the ‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ comes from discarded fishing nets. Most scientists and environmentalists agree that plastic pollution is a huge problem for our oceans.
- The ocean will be empty of fish by 2048. This claim was originally made in a scientific paper in 2006 by Boris Worm, but in a follow-up paper in 2009 that he co-wrote, it was found that in certain areas with limited fishing, stock had recovered somewhat.
- There is slavery in the fishing trade. It has been acknowledged that slave labour has been uncovered in the past in Thailand, and on fishing ships in the waters of Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Africa, New Zealand and Indonesia.
- The ocean floor is being destroyed. The documentary claims that 3.9 billion acres of sea floor is destroyed by bottom trawling every year. This is the process where trawlers drag heavy weighted nets along the sea floor to catch fish and is used by commercial fishing companies because it can catch a large number of fish in one go.
- Sharks kill 12 people a year. But humans kill 11,000 to 30,000 sharks per hour. There’s a persisting myth that sharks are universally dangerous to human beings.
- Fishing nets make up 46% of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, three times the size of France, is the most polluted patch of water on the planet.
- Plastic straws account for just 0.03% of ocean plastic. We can’t really know this one for sure. According to the BBC, the two studies referenced in the movie both provide estimates, with a calculation made from these estimates.
- If we continue as we are, oceans will be empty by 2048. This was perhaps the most controversial fact. Boris Worm, the man who authored the 2006 study that this claim is based on, has since come out and said that the research is now dated — and shouldn’t be used to reach conclusions today.
Apr 30, 2021 · Seaspiracy, a Netflix documentary, claims that oceans will be empty of fish by 2048, but experts disagree. Find out why the 2048 prediction is inaccurate and how overfishing is a serious issue.
Apr 1, 2021 · Seaspiracy fact check: What Netflix documentary is about, and why its accuracy has faced questions. The film examines the impact of plastic marine debris and overfishing around the world. By...
