Dorothea Orme

Seaspiracy is the most watched film on Netflix and, as expected, it has ignited a tsunami of acerbic responses to the film from 'professionals' involved in ocean conservation, science, ecology and the corporations profiteering the rape of the ocean. Starting with the 'professionals' who are whingeing in the wings, professing to be already 'on the case' in response to some of the horrors exposed in the film. They know full well that they can't expose these horrors to their full extent because their work is funded by the industrial fishing industry. Like the scientists being funded by corporations behind the meat industry, and industrial farming. The corporations behind industrial fishing fund much of the research and their PR companies are behind much of the blue washing. We've seen this with Monsanto and all the huge corporations who are hoovering up huge swathes of agricultural land (like Bill Gates buying up hundreds of thousands of acres) whilst government's turn a convenient blind eye. Yes, there have been snippets of the horrors behind fishing; like the turtles being trapped in the huge nets from shrimping, the slave ships of Thailand and the sea bed damage from the huge nets scraping along the bottom of the oceans...other than George Monbiot's recent expose of the gruesome fish farming industry, no one from ocean conservation and ecology have had the balls to expose these horrors to the masses. Why? We know that everything in the insidious world of corporations has a price and with mortgages to pay and a family to raise, there are few who will forego security for the greater good. The film maker and protagonist Ali Tabriz makes no claims about his credentials in regards to his expose. This film is a huge awakening for a large proportion of the masses. It's making people respond, it's making people talk about the injustices and the cruelty involved in industrial fishing. They're not talking about the small to medium fishing boats landing fish for the local communities, they're talking about collosal factories out at sea with nets so large that they could scoop up cathedrals. They're talking about the corporations who have their greedy, fat hands immersed in our oceans (and I mean our as a collective for all life on earth, not just human). They don't own the oceans (yet) but give it time.