This film was published by Netflix. It had previously published documentaries exposing cosmetics with plasticizer carcinogens and other ingredients, and finally directed to a "health cosmetics" that did not contain plasticizers. However, the film was later tested for urine tests only. The circulation of the plasticizer in the human body was checked, nothing else was detected, and it turned into a hard hole in the end.
This "Conspiracy of the Seas" seems to be more logically logical, so let me sort it out.
Summary of the whole film: Commercial fishing not only makes seafood resources unsustainable, but also one of the killers of global warming.
The upper layer of the marine food chain is dolphins, sharks, and whales, the middle layer is a variety of fish and shrimp, and the lower layer is phytoplankton. The feces of dolphins, sharks, and whales can feed phytoplankton, which absorb four times as much carbon dioxide as the Amazon rainforest each year. The swimming of the fish in the middle layer allows the upper and lower layers of the sea to interact, and the flow of sea water is more conducive to the absorption of carbon dioxide (this is a hypothesis, which has not been confirmed, and it is directly used as an argument in the film).
1. Japan hunts and kills dolphins.
A large number of dolphins are hunted in Dolphin Bay in Japan. Dolphin meat is not valuable in the seafood market. Tuna and salmon are valuable. Most of these dolphins will be killed, and a few will be selected and sold to aquariums and zoos around the world. The reason for the massive hunting of dolphins is to maintain the number of fish in the next level of the food chain of dolphins. That is to say, humans grab seafood to eat with dolphins, control the number of dolphins and increase the catch of commercial fishing boats.
2. By-catch, accidental fishing by-catch
The fishing nets used in commercial fishing will not identify what fish can and cannot be caught. A large number of seals, seabirds, whales, sharks and other animals die from being entangled in fishing nets every day. These accidentally caught animals are on the market. I didn't want it, I had to throw it away. For example, in only one fishing terminal in Iceland, 269 dolphins, hundreds of seals of different species and 5,000 seabirds were accidentally caught in one month. There are more than 10,000 bycatch dolphins in France each year, which is 10 times the number of dolphins killed in Dolphin Bay in Japan. This situation has been going on for at least 30 years and has not been exposed by the media.
3. Does sustainable fishing really exist?
With commercial overfishing and supplementary fishing, there is the concept of sustainable fishing. Perpetual fishing means that you have deposited a sum of money in the bank, and if you only withdraw the interest, you will be able to earn the interest forever. When you start withdrawing the principal, your money will become less and less. So an organization called the Marine Management Committee began to issue sustainable fishing eco-labels to some fishery companies. Their website is www.msc.org . However, this blue label-issued organization is itself a bigwig in the fishery and shipping industry, and it is also associated with some gray and black products. The organization can earn tens of millions of dollars by issuing labels every year.
4. Fishing net pollution
What we have seen most in the media is the pollution of the sea from drinking straws. However, straws only account for 0.03% of marine debris, and 46% of marine debris are fishing nets (made of nylon). However, the media exaggerated the dangers of straws, and 99% of the content of environmental protection organizations are talking about straws, and fishing nets are hidden. This is also in line with our intuition. Take a look at the up masters who catch the sea at station b. They always find large discarded fishing nets and small dead fish entangled in the nets on the beach every time they go to the sea. The nets are very thin, even Small fry can be entangled.
5. Fishing boat trawling
This is a method of operation that destroys the marine environment. These fishing boats use fishing nets that can hold 13 large passenger planes to drag and destroy the seabed. No grass grows wherever he goes. An estimated 3.9 billion acres of seabed are removed each year by trawling operations. The film here records the capture of a Chinese fishing boat illegally fishing off the coast of Liberia. These large fishing boats also make local traditional fishing no fish to catch. It is mentioned here that Somali pirates used to be simple fishermen. Because the fishery resources were robbed by foreign fishing boats during the civil war, they could only invade Somalia and grab the fishery resources before they became Somali pirates.
6. Aquaculture
Aquaculture seems to be more environmentally friendly than marine fishing, but the film points out that aquaculture destroys mangroves and mangroves can resist the tsunami. In addition, raising salmon requires more feed made from fish, and commercial catching of these feed fishes (I also saw a report of using polluted water fish as pet feed in another documentary). Not only that, the intensively reared salmon also have the problem of deformity and infection. Because they have been living in their own poop pool. The salmon that we eat on the table is only 50% of the farmed salmon, and 50% has died of disease before it is shipped. Related documentaries can be seen "artifishal".
7. Forced labor
One out of every three fish sold in the United States is obtained illegally. Two people who escaped from a Thai fishing boat were found in the film. They told about their previous experiences of forced labor and were treated like slaves. Young people on the boat were killed and left behind. All this is to reduce fishery costs.
8. Asians eat shark fins
As mentioned earlier, the excrement of big fish like sharks is the source of nutrients for marine phytoplankton.
Fish also have culture, pain and sensation. The reference book "Fish Knows Everything". Later, the film asked scientists what nutrients would be lost if humans did not eat fish. The scientists said: "A lot of heavy metals." Fish with a longer growth period like tuna accumulates more heavy metals in their bodies than small fish. The omega-3 contained in fish oil can actually be obtained from algae and flaxseed. We don't need to eat so many fish, the ocean can no longer support so many people.
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