Maltese version of Seaspiracy - Alan Deidun
The Seaspiracy documentary has rightly taken the Netflix crowd by storm ever since it came on stream by virtue of its compelling footage and doomsday scenarios for fishing stocks worldwide. It has managed to connect to the public in a strident way, which is unprecedented for any previous digital production, bridging the emotional deficit marine conservationists lament so much about as the cause of the public feeling disconnected from marine conservation efforts. This despite the sensationalist timbre of the production which latches on to misconstrued statistics and which takes aim at the wrong targets and peddles the wrong kind of recommendations. Seaspiracy, for instance, has been taken to task for the 2048 apocalyptical scenario which they depict - that, by the year 2048, the seas would have been completely depleted of fish - by misquoting a scientific paper which had concluded that, by that year, commercially-exploited fish species would be so depleted that their fisheries would collapse. This is a far cry from what the documentary is actually claiming. There are other serious flaws in the scenario portrayed within the documentary, such as the actual contribution that...