I Watched Seaspiracy And This Is What I Thought…

As a child, I loved the seaside. I have always been a beach bum and my ultimate holiday destination is the beach. Swimming in the sea, seeing dolphins, fish and turtles in their natural habitat has always taken my breath away. This week, I sat down and watched Seaspiracy on Netflix. I was shook.

What Is Seaspiracy?

The latest documentary to drop on Netflix, Seaspiracy is a video created by Ali Tabrizi where he explores the reality of why so many whales and dolphins are being killed in our seas.

What starts as a think piece about whale stranding’s in Kent quickly becomes a multinational adventure around the world. It becomes an investigation on dolphins being killed for “pest control” in Japan, sustainable fishing, microplastics and fish farms.

It is a whirlwind at 90 minutes. I watched the entire thing with my mouth open and I found myself repeatedly saying “why?”.

While I don’t usually share this kind of content on my blog, I thought it was important to give you insight into why I’ve now decided to no longer eat seafood.

The Facts

You know that blue tick on the side of a can of tuna that says dolphin safe? The “sustainably fished” logo that sits on our favourite scampi? It turns out, there is no way of enforcing this.

The documentary creator went directly to the [sea]horse’s mouth and asked if in 2021, we can really be sure that all of this seafood is caught sustainably. The shocking answer: nope. No way to tell.

The even more shocking information was that there is no way to stop this.

Plastic In Our Oceans

We’ve been told for a long time that every single tooth brush still floats around somewhere and every plastic straw is potentially causing harm to our beloved sea animals. Ear buds are the devils work.

So, in recent years, we’ve done our bit to stop them. When I was managing a bar a few years back I was called the pioneer of banning the plastic straw. The customers hated it, I didn’t stop until the chain changed and I felt like I was really doing my bit.

What we were told in Seaspiracy is that the biggest contributor of plastics in our oceans was from fishing. Fishing nets, plastics discarded over board, snags from old ropes, you name it.

Fishing & It’s Effect On The Earth

Now, I love seafood. When I’m by the sea, it’s all I want. My ultimate pub lunch usually has whitebait or scampi involved somewhere.

But, when I was presented with the facts about over fishing, fish populations, secret auctions and trawling, I was genuinely shocked.

Call me naïve, but I had no clue that the fish that ends up in my supermarket could be having such a detrimental effect on our oceans.

But, now I know the facts, it makes perfect sense.

The more we over-fish, the less fish there are for everyone. The more we deplete species, the more we deplete their homes. Beautiful landscapes of coral are perishing because the fish that fertilise it, prune it and live there are gone.

Sharks, dolphins and whales are dying as bycatch – caught in large trawling fishing nets and dying as a result.

And, it has to stop.

I’ve decided that I will no longer buy into the big corporations and support the mass overfishing of our seas.

I have chosen to stop eating seafood.

The only way we’ll be able to reclaim our seas is to stop fishing.

Fish farming isn’t the answer, sustainability doesn’t exist and if change doesn’t happen soon, our children will have no fish in the sea. Seriously.

I will not support the mass over fishing of our oceans.

You NEED to watch this documentary, it will open your eyes!

What do you think about over fishing? Would you ever give up fish to help our seas come back to life?

LoveRosiee
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