NETFLIX’S Seaspiracy creator was left shaking her head in fury after an Alison Hammond interview took a fiery turn.
Alison and her This Morning co-host Dermot O’Leary spoke to Seaspiracy filmmaker Ali Tabrizi and British fisherwoman Ashley Mullenger about the documentary.
Seapiracy seeks to expose the fishing industries impact on the world’s oceans, however, Alison and Dermot questioned whether they should be cutting fish out of their diet.
Ashley said she believed there was a way for fishing to carry on in a sustainable way, but her comments left Ali frustrated.
Ashley, who was on a fishing boat in Norfolk said: “I think there’s a lot this industry can do and I think there’s a lot people already are doing.
“There’s some great initiatives surrounding recycling, the nets and things like that which do wash up.
“I actually thought the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the 46 percent of fishing gear was actually, the project that caught it was actually trawl net, it was trawled up.
“Anything small in that trawl would have gone through it. I don’t know how accurate that study is.”
She continued: “Also, micro plastics, they’re not going to have been hauled up in that study, and they’re thinner so things like the straws, it’s going to break down a lot quicker.
“How accurate that study is, I’m not sure so.”
Alison replied: “Well, you know it’s absolutely fascinating this conversation, thank you for joining us.”
But as the debate wrapped up, Ali could be seen shaking his head furiously.
Earlier in the interview he had clashed with Dermot, who said he knew first hand that fishing could be sustainable, having owned his own fish restaurant.
Dermot explained how they never served cod as part of their fish and chips because of sustainability and depleting numbers but Ali argued: “Sometimes you could get by-catch and say well let’s just keep it and that will be sustainable but all that means is that population of say dogfish starts getting depleted.
“Time and time again we have this ‘adapt to diminishment’, the cod goes down so we move on to the next fish. That population goes down, then we move on to the next fish.
“So those measures might be better but ultimately I think we need to be leaving your oceans alone at this point.”
Seapsiracy is available on Netflix.
