More or Less: Behind the Stats

The Seaspiracy “virtually empty ocean” claim

<p>Popular Netflix documentary Seaspiracy has sparked a lot of debate recently, including some controversy over some of the claims the documentary makes and the numbers behind them. One of the most striking is that: “if current fishing trends continue we will see virtually empty oceans by the year 2048.” Although overfishing is a global problem, we take a look and find that this scenario is unlikely.</p>

<p>Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4</p>