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‘Finding Nemo’ wasn’t so entertaining for real clownfish. Now conservationists worry about ‘Finding Dory’.

May 18, 2016 at 5:21 a.m. EDT

Finding the message of many films can be challenging, but the moral of “Finding Nemo” seems pretty straightforward: Leave fish in the ocean, where they belong. In the children’s movie, the father of a young clownfish treks across the Pacific looking for his son, who has been fished out of the deep blue and dumped into an aquarium in a dentist’s office. The movie ends — spoiler alert — with young Nemo finding his way out of the glass prison and back to his home.