Seaspiracy movie study is a set of questions highlighting the key discoveries in the original Netflix documentary about the environmental impact of the global fishing industry by British moviemaker Ali Tabrizi. Released date: March 24, 2021. The movie already has attracted celebrity endorsem*nts and plaudits from fans with its damning picture of the fishing industry and its harm to oceans and marine life. Keep students focus. Every fact matters.
IMPORTANT: There are some graphic scenes of the whale and fish slaughters. You might want to consider it before showing it to your students. Also, NGOs, sustainability labels, and experts quoted in Seaspiracy have accused the filmmakers of making “misleading claims”, using out-of-context interviews and erroneous statistics.
Seaspiracy is already causing controversy and dividing opinions on social media. It is a great conversation starter about sustainability, renewable resources, the impact of human activities, and more. The conversations with activists and experts question the idea of sustainable fishing, shine a spotlight on the aquaculture industry, and introduce the notion of “blood shrimp,” seafood tainted with slave labor and human rights abuses.
Do not have the time to watch the entire 90 min long documentary? No problem. Would like to show it to younger children? No problem. Choose and show a piece of the movie to spark interest and start a conversation by choosing one of the sections below.
38 questions are divided in sections:
- page 2 - questions #1 - 7 (watch the beginning - 00:10:30)
- page 3 - questions #8 - 15 (watch 00:10:31 - 00:27:44)
- page 4 - questions #9 - 21 (watch 00:27:45 - 00:39:27)
- page 5 - questions #22 - 27 (watch 00:39:27 - 00:55:50)
- page 6 - questions #28 - 33 (watch 00:55:51 - 01:08:18)
- page 7 - questions #34 - 41 (watch 01:08:19 - the end)
The file includes:
- PDF version for easy “print + make copies” use;
- EASEL Activity ready to use.
TIP: Once your students are done watching the movie and answering the questions, have your students check 5-10 factual claims made in the movie with their own original research from the most recent studies they can find. Your students might find the following claims interesting:
- the oceans are home for up to 80% of all life on earth @00:02:31
- the oceans absorb 4x the amount of co2 than the amazon rainforest @00:03:47
- up to 85% of the worlds oxygen comes from phytoplankton @00:03:54
- great pacific garbage patch is 1.6 million sq km @00:04:21
- plastic breaks down into smaller pieces known as microplastics, which outnumber the stars in the milky way by 500x @00:04:39
- between 2000-2015, for every 1 dolphin captured at least 12 more were killed @00:13:02
- blue fin tunas are warm-blooded and can accelerate faster than a ferrari @00:14:38
- sharks keep the oceans healthy @00:18:36
- for the first time sharks are going extinct because of us @00:19:21
- species like thresher, bull and hammerhead sharks have lost up to 80-99% of their populations in the last two decades @00:19:30
- studies estimate that up to 40% of all marine life caught is thrown overboard as bycatch @00:21:45
- 46% of the pacific garbage patch is fishing nets @00:28:06
- 1,000 sea turtles die every year from plastic globally. in the usa, 250,000 sea turtles are captured, injured or killed every year by fishing @00:29:41
- ocean plastic coming from straws is 0.03% of all plastic in the ocean @00:30:28
- the fishing industry kills more animals in a day than the deep water horizon oil spill did in months @00:34:25
- scientists predict that 90% of the worlds coral reefs will die by 2050 @00:35:51
- virtually empty oceans by 2048 @00:38:45
- per acre, marine plants can store up to 20x more carbon than forests on land @00:41:21
- losing just 1% of the oceans carbon stores is the equivalent to releasing the emissions of 97 million cars @00:41:37
- bottom trawlers wipe out 3.9 billion acres per year, equivalent to losing 4,316 soccer fields per minute @00:42:33
- 90% of the 5% of marine protected areas still allow fishing @00:43:42
- in the united states one in three wild caught fish imported is caught illegally @00:53:58
- the industry claim only 1.2kg of feed is needed to produce 1kg of farmed salmon. however the feed is made up of dried fish meal and processed oil which hide the true weight of fish being used. @01:02:10
- today 50% of the world's seafood is farm-raised @01:02:41
- up to 50% of farmed salmon die from egg to plate @01:04:40
- fish have the capacity to experience pain and fear @01:21:04
- herrings communicate by flatulence @01:22:02
- the contaminants in fish often outweigh the benefits of omega 3 fatty acids @01:23:41
- fish don't make omega 3 fatty acids, algae do @01:23:55
- and others...
The claims and the sources relied on by the filmmakers are on the Seaspiracy fact page.
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