The Best Response to Seaspiracy?

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By Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust

The new Netflix documentary, Seaspiracy, has been making waves. The film addresses important topics, such as human rights abuses at sea, plastic pollution, and the impacts of unregulated industrial fishing.

Unfortunately, it does so in a way that oversimplifies a highly complex topic, to the detriment of the many seafood harvesters, businesses, and food workers who participate in sustainable fisheries, and the communities that depend on these healthy proteins.

In Monterey Bay, our commercial fisheries are diverse, from the small boat operator that catches rockfish by hook and line to the purse seiner that targets schools of spawning squid to the groundfish trawler that brings in high volume Dover sole.

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