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How Finding Nemo hurt wild clownfish populations
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The entire point of the movie is that wild fish belong in the ocean and keeping them in tiny glass tanks is cruel. Naturally, audiences entirely missed this extremely obvious environmental message. Immediately following the release, demand for pet clownfish spiked so aggressively that some natural reef populations were completely decimated by overharvesting.
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