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🐟🐠🦐The new Netflix documentary Seaspiracy has sparked a fierce debate about the fish on our plates

Can you tell your Seaspiracy facts from fiction? 👇🧵
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📉The scandalous documentary has been the target of criticism by marine conservationists for failing to provide the full context for its facts

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'The Ocean will be empty of fish by 2048'

Is this statement fact or fiction? 🧐

📺This is perhaps the most controversial of the claims in the documentary

It is fiction!

📈It stems from a 2006 paper that ‘was based on a massive extrapolation into the future’.

📑The lead author of the study, Boris Worm, later distanced himself from the findings.

🥤🧃🐟 'Discarded fishing nets are a much greater threat to marine life than plastic straws'

Is this statement fact or fiction? 🧐

It's a fact!

🌊It is true that 46% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was found to be fishing nets

🗑️However, some experts have taken issue with the suggestion that fishing waste, rather than rubbish from the land, is by far the biggest plastics problem in our waters

🍽️'No sustainability certification can give consumers peace of mind'

Is this statement fact or fiction? 🧐

It's a fact!

♻️Marine experts are critical of the MSC, the most common certification body, and say no eco-label can provide 100% assurance.

🎣However, George Clark from MSC UK, said that “MSC requirements are science-based and are helping protect oceans from overfishing."

'Slavery is rife in the fishing industry'

Is this statement fact or fiction? 🧐

It is, sadly, a fact

🎣 Human rights abuses, including forced labour, are well-documented in the industry, and are linked to overfishing and illegal fishing

Databases like the Seafood Slavery Risk Tool allow you to find countries that are high risk for the use of forced labour

🐟🐡🐠🦐The big question is, should we stop eating fish for good?

Find out here 👇telegraph.co.uk/environment/20…