Frontline; To the Last Fish

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This is a story about. A revolution that. Is. Going to be what. It's about to see. Is Running Out. Here is as good a place as it's not just the coast of New Zealand. This is where the fishing war was more. Like miniature spring like this. I have never gone to Beijing. And I get seasick. I was starting from scratch. How do you find the fish. A lot of instinct a lot of.
Experience. Mining and fine art has been like a tidy living. With a 40 foot boat. Any holes in. To know. When. They should be time. Kind of like. Hundreds of New Zealanders make their living this way. It's probably one of the beast. Bob Graham. Yes it is old fashioned stone age man. You. Like. You want to call the King you're actually. Just that feeling of pain that you might not even hear I'm writing. I. I like sitting on the railings and solid fishing but he is not exactly alone. He. Was. Out. Looking like factories. Or was fishing. They. Are Japanese and. These are. The. Only. Form. Of.
Squid. Processing them on the spot. Or Dagworthy along the way that they the grand are easy. It's only split. They don't bother precious. To. Nobody in New Zealand knew about a much greater threat farther out at sea. Until one day in 1988 there was a distress call a large Japanese fishing boat had caught fire. Rescuers spotted 22 other boats nearby. Days later another call for help. A Taiwanese vessel was sinking again. Other fishing boats were all around but none came to the stricken boats aid. Evidently they were so determined to keep their fishing fleet from being discovered. They were willing to let one boat sink its crew was lost. The discovery of these fishing boats was frightening news to New Zealand.
Scientists say the pond could easily wipe out our share of tuna in two years and it's making New Zealand fishermen angry. Tell me am I going to live there in those directions for the government. But I think the government should allow the bomb. Detonated then. Meanwhile tuna fishermen are left wondering if she is catching. Maybe the last. Bit is Bishop. The good news. This is what New Zealanders were afraid of. It's a and on the reels from the back of a boat sold one edge of the surface while lead weights below the other edge to the 30 or 40 feet. The Nets hang in the water waiting to snag the gills or fins of Vince Gill nets have been used for a thousand years or more. But really it means we're no more like these than a picket fence just like the time war
record is synthetic cheap and so wait a single mode may carry 30 miles of. A hydraulic twinge you realize that that is. To. Make. Sure. Nothing. Before. Has taken so many things. So easily. And so cheaply. We. Should. Take. A vision and deconstruct this. As a natural. The Japanese were first to carry the idea to extremes putting huge nets on boats that could hold 500 tons of fish. They were too successful. And their own government chased them from Japanese waters. They hit the high seas. And we're joined there by other big rigs.
In the North Pacific. They began to harvest an immense concentration of flying. We're. We could. See in some of these. Squid the size of a man's. Son. When you. See. THE GAME. Salmon. Believe. The salmon come. From. Soviet spring. For. American. Forces. In 1983 most of the world got its first look at the man. When the environmental group. Seems. To be shifting. See. Catching. Fish. Seals. Rare turtles. Deal. With. Fish.
Squid. And other environmental birthcontrol just took their cameras for more chilling look at the Nats in action. We found dozens of species of animals in the nets and other fishermen were only after Alipore and then a Greenpeace expedition that took some of the pictures. The drift nets are designed to collapse around anything that touches them. And in that way they are and completely indiscriminate. Earth's. Crust produced a videotape. Using the Gryphon athletes of strip mining the seams. What you are seeing now is a baby down from that died of suffocation after being entangled in an invisible drip meant each year. This scene is repeated tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of times.
In addition many thousands of seabirds are caught in drown in these Nirupam responded with a videotape of its own defending the drift nets and accusing her of lying. Drift nets do not catch every form of sea life in their paths. They are much more selective than that. Unfortunately some otherwise well-meaning environmental organizations mistook propaganda for fact and misguidedly embraced the cause. By. A. Hundred different vessels was working. Late. Each night. To circle the world. The. Same United Nations agency that had recommended. That's now estimated that the high seas nets were killing from 300000 to 1 million animals a year. Most of them dolphins and porpoises. Were also killing something like a million died from the
deaths and became entangled themselves. Scientists admit they had no accurate figures. Only the fisherman can see what we saw. Giant ocean sunfish entangled in the nets massive fish weighed perhaps over a ton over 100 years old. More than likely bigger than the divers we were sending down to to photograph. Greenpeace says hundreds of these majestic fish were dying. They didn't immediately suffocate when they hit the nets and we were able in a couple of houses to cut them free and send them on their way. So. Environmental groups have hounded the drift Natters at sea.
This green keystream was stolen three miles under Japanese. This. Is. The vessel that I belong to just over the horizon lay in the rest of its net. As we spent four hours pulling the female section out of the water and probably didn't realize until the next morning that that we had left the area with the net. They carry their prize to Washington. And laid it out on the Capitol lawn. One tenth. Of one boats meant. Another group. Named Sea Shepherd. Took more drastic action. They ran. To. Sea. Hoping to disable the hydraulic. The.
Question. Of. The day. In 1984 some of the boards began quietly steaming sound chasing them migrating to the. End of the Tasman Sea and the South Pacific around New Zealand. They. Had been there for years before the burning. Way. By that time there were almost 200 of them spreading thousands of miles of the. Path. To.
New Zealand so this research will find the definitively and having. To come in on one side of scientist on this and it was time to order agent of it by fishing around the drift. And John you could tell that they were not only catching huge amounts of food. But we still. Know. Were carried. On calling the. Injured. Or dead. Terribly. Badly. And. Often. Everything. Was damaged. And. Broken. Tail. And. Then. I had missed. Some. Seas diplomats were taking five times what the species could stand. It seemed to smell wrong. New Zealand's fishing industry. And I have to say that it is essential that this practice be wiped out.
When I got a strike on the drift matters. We got it from an international legal point of view as a Nela just piracy piracy you recall became punishable by international law by anybody because it was a crime against New Zealand and 21 island nations in the South Pacific bandwidth. That's from their waters and then went to the United Nations seeking to read all the seas of large scale. This. A. Guy. In this ecologically irresponsible activity should be in no doubt that the pick makes they use are unacceptable. Where ever they do large scale electric fishing on December 22nd commodity sources of the year after they get into the waters of New Zealand poor little island nations which is what resolution it is so decided. That boats must leave the South Pacific. And they must leave the high seas everywhere.
Why do I need. To. Refinance. Days were numbered. But the resolution has. No enforcement. But. I want. I want. To. If you're looking for the Big Bang but it is the Taiwanese fleet and the Chancellor. Senator Dodd is head of an American delegation that deals with fishing rights of North Pacific. What you've got is a bandit fleet that their own nation can't control that delivers. I have heard a lot of things about Taiwan specifically about their sneaking into the South Sea lying about what they were catching. Going after protected American salmon and selling them on the black market. Ramming ships that tried to stop. Her. For.
Only a fraction of. Any time. Rusty. Bolts. Representing. Desperation. Its. Economy and its culture fed by fear. Taiwan has all but fished out its own water. Fishermen have had to go farther and farther out. To catch. Fish. And find ways to catch. These boats were the. Hunter. Most. Previously. Continue. Search. Because they are. Mountains of fish and tons of fuel. Economical. Is paid. By. Most of them are recruited in. The nets themselves are everywhere. Dots. Streets
sidewalks. Like the boats in the harbor. These nets are only a sand. That. Are out at sea. And that's a terrible story. My son is missing. Commander fleet. Is. Here. Yes I was surprised when the boat owners agreed to talk about this. And I lost all of my past because I was eager to speak. This is a shock. It was the bottom bottom unit. So how do you decide the specious target species the size of the mesh the size and the size of the fish. The nets
catch that makes them feel unsafe. So somebody see that kill every species that's just wrong. Because we the side by side with a net smaller than this one will be going to last long. We're not going to go underwater for each. It doesn't work that way. Even nets with small Maschmeyer wrap around animals or large fish they can. This is a problem. This is fraud. Now we eat between the net approach what is one point to avoid here by birds. All I know is this. This goes on the surface of the dolphin and the bird here.
But I can't even tell. Every summer I went over it. The scientists are tested and they found that even when they submerged in at 15 meters. That they still caught on. And. At the same time they got. Significantly less of the species that they weren't interested in catching. Now we may can you know do our best to improve the net to avoid the kitchen and other members. So this is very important. And we're we were going to bring in time to improve. Yeah it takes time anyway. But we are doing the approach here. This is our captain in the boat on our shores to take me to board one of their. Boats. Fishing for squid or Pacific Coast to your. Energy would take about two hours. It shows mile after mile of being real down.
With no dolphins whales turtles or birds being. This way. Evidence that. The. Queen. Selected. An American observer named Michael Cook is shown on board. The U.S. and some other countries have arranged with Taiwan to put observers on a sampling of the boats. We found Michael Hoque in North Carolina. You could go for a real long time and not see much of anything but squid and miscellaneous fish that are not in danger. Then all of a sudden here is Moby Dick in the. You know the rules of the observer program will allow him to say how many birds or animals he saw but he thinks every now have something and sometimes very rare creatures large will small whales sea turtles seabirds Philipa sea lions and things of that nature. There were South African crew members on board one of these assholes and they expressed a great concern for birds
flopping around in the dark with broken wings. They just said look we're just trying to make a living. And don't hate us. Hope. Says he saw a few Salman Khan but he didn't seem to be intentional. Some drift net folks have been found in illegal areas ketchin. And Sam. Postcard. Came upon a Taiwanese vessel in the fog in the foreign North Pacific about what race is a special agent for the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle. We had one of our agents and helicopter who was taking video camera the fishermen throwing their catch salmon overboard as fast as they could carry the American aid. He admitted that he in fact had been out there fishing for salmon and he offered to boarding for the Goal
money and sex. They would forget what was going on some of the criticism against the Taiwan didn't at late in the north. I asked Jane to say about this when he's driven that straightening out the switch to catch salmon. Also there is precedent for fishing and executive director Association did she see could you take her side. So what is she going to be doing here. Well I don't know how to respond to. How anybody could say that the Taiwanese are involved in this and haven't been to KC's. Common sense and reason. About the moratorium. The U.N. resolution by getting that fishing should stop everyone next year. I asked the spokesman for time for. Sure.
Mike on that we will comply with those principles. That I don't have to promise to enforce the moratorium but it isn't quite it why Taiwan's government avoids making promises and rightly so. Council spokesman does say the drift nets will be phased out I just mentioned in my comments or this. Lessons. On. The. Internet. That's all it is. It's simply impossible for us to. Appreciate that. It's impossible. Ask Kye-Gwan about our city isn't just because it is it doesn't matter what the Agricultural High wants people and its legislature will not allow chitchatting by the legislature. The policy could not be fulfilled. I didn't think so. We will do everything we can to stop that kind of wrong policy. Professor fool may be right. The investment in Africa is so great that even if Taiwan's government tries to rein it in it may save
too much money. The boat owners want to convince the world that the diplomats are safe after all. Failing that to make it clear is that an end to rule 43 she must be on their own schedule. Nothing in five years. Yes that's got to be a big problem and she'll need in time once most outspoken critic of draft night vision to lead them to believe the owners will not be little that their investment almost tells them to continue. And this of course. Has called the vicious cycle. You know the greater investment greater the investment in new technology. The catch to make it. And the faster they deploy the O.J. faster they do the ocean. Yes and that is such a kind of reckless suicidal approach to catch fish. You know that I think the war often results in no time.
I think this line this long on a dismal consumers may be going. Governments have failed to do this. The biggest market for tuna caught right here in America is pictures of dead dolphins not in the mainstream on American Petrie's quit buying tuna caught in droves because people don't say it's unfair. In fact the United States of America. Yes. No it prohibited. So no more market Usenet we say. We say I want this to happen to you. Then comes stockists baby get to buy the piece from the unit. So Orpheus coming in. He turned to Thailand for a surprise. So now most Oswiecim in the clue. Not in the market. We got the job on marketing the word injected by. The TV tonight from getting it.
But you have an markets left this morning at the time when he was. Captured. My timeline is anything but very fast transport code. Is. 1100. I. Still. Have. My. From. This one. Taiwanese transport vessel. Is two thirds the amount of the city failed to fulfill your vision and. It. Across the Pacific from Kaushal harbour in Newport Oregon. Fishermen like Herb Goldberg were warning of the drift nets are having a disastrous effect on American tuna fish.
They've been hammering out of course it's about 1980 and we've watched our catch steadily decline from the same time. Now we used to average the American domestic albacore fleet in Oregon Washington California and used to every day 10000 tons a season. Last year we were down to seventeen hundred tons seventeen hundred fifty times as our caps last year from Washington to California. Fishermen talk them a lot of other problems besides. The rising cost of catching the numbers of fish and big government regulations they consider any solution. Some are getting out. We're getting from Latin America. It's OK to catch a few dolphins or sea lions by accident at San Diego harbor in Los Angeles. Tom Ridge says he's ready to give up. Let us let's get real for the way we used to be. Ten years ago five years ago you had 40 years ago was beautiful but it
would tell you the two of you could step for one third of the other with. That's how many boats were here today and 80 boats. So you see there were many boats here in San Pedro and everywhere else. The government lists over 100 species of fish. Over fish. Because the condition of American. Resources. Was. The worst that even years ago. That's when the U.S. made fishing boats are going. To. Show off shore Americans will soon fill the vacuum what the competition. Teener they did what Taiwan had done. This is what they look for new ways to catch the fish poisonous fish. It's a poisonous fish poison. This is a colorful meter that just marks feed because what we're targeting on is is a animal this a very opportunistic
predator. So we know where there is feed. Tony West has a season ticket was sold in that sort of she's with him versus the defense. And this is a long range radar up to 30 eight miles and this is a short range up to 24 miles. It sounds like you're saying a smaller ecologist in Taiwan just tossed sounds that you'd need a couple of different fathom meters. Also the fishing gear finder the fishermen has more money and technology to catch stylus ones in case the black box to store it. These are important they get scarcer. So you need backups and enter a major communications line is all of these radios all over here. We do use as much modern technology as we can. Part of it's an ego trip and part of it's keeping up with the Joneses. You know you and I are fishermen and we're in competition with each other at the marketplace. If you bring more than I do then it's not so much my ego but it's the standpoint that the price is going to go down. So I have to keep up with your production.
So if you get some new x y z machine that's going to do this for you. By gosh I better get the same thing. So you get caught up into that syndrome now if we if we throw away all that I got to see the technology at work one night one of them coming up you don't want to show up because we're is looking for mackerel or anything else you can catch squid Vanita anything except sardines. The government won't let him have sardines. Even though the San Pedro fishermen agree sardines are so plentiful they are hard to avoid if he catches any. You'll have to go the way you. Like all the others. Mr. Roxy's boat has to have everything on radar. Temperature gauges sonar finder's fee and daylight sometimes even higher a spotter plane and pays the pilot five percent of his catch on the rock bottom
line. Mr. Gerasim wasn't in Italy we don't know a lot. So. There was a time when his whole crew spoke Italian how they speak Spanish. Most are from Ellis. I want you. To weigh in on micro-labour. Just like. His farms and like Taiwan's fishing boats. The crew is paid a percentage of the catch. They say they've got very little lately. Tonight none of his gadgets can find Mr. Rasi anti-Mac. He has the crew deploy the net anyway. Cost. And $70000. Try. Cables and. When. You. Plan for fresh out. Of. The night.
There. Is. No Money. Mr.. Rossi. Did you have a good season. Not really. We all struggle. San Pedro is full of angry man like salicylates left and so frustrated by how hard it is to make a living fishing. When you get government regulations nobody will know. Nobody Not sees. That's a shame. I think good bird dog anything. Yes. You have a life that worked like a jackass I. That's shame. Six. Thousand Miles Away. Atlantic Ocean off the coast of France
lies a little island. You do that and I love the fish it always has. Now it's also a fresh battle in the fishing revolution. 136 boats Harbor beer the fishermen of those boats catch more fish. That whole other French fishermen find you so proud of its fishing tradition a chance on the island so people use these made up stories. These shows tuna being caught with hooks in the piece of fish. This way to keep up with France the rising cost of living. This is the island itself began to die. Like Taiwan was rescued by the discovery of defects. Now all the fishermen of the island put away their hooks and lines with their
boats with. The general who's 28 years old. He owns this boat as a crew of seven. The boat cost over a million dollars. The fisherman's property. Why did it use it drift that's four miles long. Catch tuna bass and swordfish. This is a very successful young man living off of it. We don't need you to claim that he is the one that has been holding his own but the one here I think it works he's really pleased with what he's doing. Whether or not he did. It. Also turns to get them out in the Mediterranean Sea. And so the European nets are much smaller than those of
Taiwan Japan. And so these nets we're killing so many weapons on its mission using mammals. I have say the waters surrounding almost every species of the ocean as much as so yes. Yes. This is called the European Commission. The president stocks have had of come in the North Sea 12 percent cut for what they were in 1970. OK. So in 20 years we squandered 90 percent of our resources. The. Commission. The. First. Minister's. Last Christmas. Those new regulations for all European. I only watch the drift of this current And for every country except.
Helene Gore of Greenpeace contends the French group that's supposed to save between the two is the per se asia That's the Atlantic. At the moment the only difference is you have longer necks you have long been that's in the South Pacific. But I don't think the difference is that rates and you have hundreds of Ford in the Mediterranean and a growing fruit in the Atlantic. And if it's not stopped it's going to be more than comparable. And if my books were laid. Back on the island the deal to. Greenpeace is a dirty word. To European Council. That. Is lumpish don't think it really that fishing in India is bad and the whole business will collapse tumble down. Its. Drift nets are bad. Christians. And. So. He and his family will be ruined. And. So with the rest of the. Band rips apart
is on this show they won't harm us that you don't think and break it. He says he doesn't want to think about what he has to be on the show will follow in his footsteps and be visual. So it's. To. Past. Others to prevent us from working. Think that fishermen are to be violent. And there was violence of sorts by French version. 15 tons of overripe sodium street outside the European Commission had to work to protest the evidence. Two days later the ministers adjourned announcing new regulations but no definitive ban because they said they would try again this summer.
For a moment. The fishermen of new. Area. Have. Said. Nothing to do. With the fish are disappearing just the same. Fishermen have found other ways to catch too much. New Bedford Massachusetts is probably America's most important fishing or. Certainly its most famous. Herman Melville had Captain Ahab say over here to find Moby Dick. Once they've killed too many of the whales. The New Bedford CNN began to concentrate. On. The. Polling station. In fact no. Boats were endangered.
Swamp. They. Still bring in fish. But. That. Is not to say. That we did badly. Alan Saunders even with a load of COD. About 10000. Fish. About 9000 dollars. A thousand dollars to fix. The. Fuel costs twenty five hundred dollars. The Isobel's. Then. There's. Somewhere. We don't bother. To do better. They fish harder. Compared with the good days twice the effort for half the fish. It's scary. It's really scary doomsday situation if we keep on the way we're going. Fish disappearing fish disappearing grounds getting work so hard that you'll never ever come back. So this is a crisis. It shows a crisis. That's
will be why shouldn't we be trying to rip it off. I the all these three mouths sound like environmentalists like humans than they've spent most of their lives. Fishermen say fishermen are conservationists. They left the sea in order to organize a fisherman and boat and try to get the government to say about the aging industry so they won't catch limits and limits on the number of votes. And they want those votes to stay in for at least 10 days a month. It is right now. Any vote can come along and obtain a license and go fishing. What it's done is created a monster is created overfishing with modern technology like the latest in electronics. The big hospital and boats began towing big idea again next biggest called dredges. It's taken its toll on the of history. If we don't get a management system a conservation method in better than what we have right now we don't feel it will be any any resource to manage in the very near future. Get some boats are
making back to back trips. They come in in the morning. They've been out for 10 to 12 days at 12 to 14 days. He came in the off load another crew goes jumps and goes right out. Doing. What. Is an example of the problem that we're talking about. It's just called generalizing. What do you use. What does your boat usually stay on board. This one here. Comes in this morning. You got it come with me. So you have two crews. We have two boats with. The. Water. Rising tensions with diligence. As. They were. Getting. Get to. See. The boat carries a crew of no. Television. Hours.
To pay for it so. As to bring in. A million dollars worth of sculpture. Do you think you could pay the mortgage on a boat like this if you were only allowed out for eight days and then had to. Stay on board for five. Couldn't make it at that rate. Like. It. Says he has to get 10000. Pounds. Fifteen. Dollars so he still. Even as the fish. You just got to take the effort up the resources. No way this can sustain the pounding of it's taking. There's no way living. The problem is that years laying around you say because it's over fishing. The public option is to blame. Old Al is allowed the overfishing. The government has allowed this overfishing to go on and on and on.
We've tried for the last three or four years almost four years now we've tried to get a different management system now which we talking to deaf ears. We feel we're talking to deaf ears because we go to meetings and. This is the office that's supposed to manage America's marine resources. The National Marine. Fisheries sir. It's a branch of the Commerce Department. No one seems to think the agency has done a good job. The agency has left the field in many areas because of its being economically devastated over the last 10 years by the Reagan and Bush administrations even this year we know my France's president of the Center for Marine Conservation the national iron metal organization which is so the true service is that it's job. The problems with the American fisheries management are not mysteries they're not new revelations there's been report after study after report done all pointing to the same problems.
About a year ago the Marine Fisheries Agency got this report card. A study commonly called the Chandler report it describes an ineffective agency with too much to do and not nearly enough money to do it. It's agents spread much too thin to enforce regulations those regulations. The report says are often based on pressure from fishermen rather than the needs of conservation. Fishermen are allowed to continue taking some of the most seriously depleted fish. We have fundamentally the capacity to wipe out stocks of fish and we're demonstrating that we can do that over and over again. We basically mine these living resources when we should be managing them for long term sustainable development. One of the surprising criticisms of the Marine Fisheries Agency contained in the Chandler report is that despite being under funded the agency keeps asking for less money than Congress wants to give it.
I fully endorse virtually everything that's in the chattily party think it's ex-SAS amounts to a confession problem because William was the director of the National Marine Fisheries services. He got a job last year to be one of the agency's severest critics and a new study says Foxey is improving the agency. I don't think there's any one bad guy you can point to the system this is very very complex and the system has failed one way of looking at access to conserving fish is safe because the federal government will not overregulate and we can catch them. We need to turn that around and say that this is the quantity of fish that that can be taken into. And to then to allocate those harvest right so that individuals can make a rational decision about how much capital investment they put in order to in order to take the neck and make it visual like I can take 10000 songs because many species are in very bad shape. Well you're talking five years 10 years even 20 years
in order to get recovery. We have really woefully lacking. Should this be some reliable numbers that this large Hundreds of fishermen met in Maine and asked Mr. Fox to come talk to them about his work and research again to get us out of the mode of simply being with her and ask him get us into the reaction of the fisherman was the predictable have a lot of what you call you may ask you a question and I don't really know and you basically say you know you really don't know. And a lot of us here you wake up to be told we've got to do all this stuff but nobody really knows anything. They must say I guess we just don't think we're going to have it was over. This is something Fox said this year environmentalist we agree.
Government doesn't know enough about oceans and fish to make wise rules. It's guessing at the told the fisherman's arms race to sell the fish what it needs to kill so many marine animals to catch so many tuna squid skulls. Here at a place called the woods on Cape Cod Massachusetts. America's premiere marine research vessel the albatross for one of the ships helped to find the answers lies idle. I took it off for the last year and a half wrong smaller which once commanded the ship basically is that cornerstone of the whole fishery system. So Slade up right now for a laugh a file. There's something telling about the five self. Well all that ship sets here there's things taking place out in the ocean. We have no knowledge. Smaller which estimates we've spent 3000 days at sea doing exploratory fishing and studying the effects of different kinds of fishing. He believes the
revolution in fish. Is. Desperate. To balance. What we've seen is a growth in the air the fishing vessels. And the electronic games that a fisherman has to help them. Catch the fish. The size of his engine is the. Size of his deck can all have increased the predators become more efficient. That fish is the same fish now OK and it's losing. This what's called an innovation treadmill. And that'll keep on going going on until the last fish is caught. No matter what or what country or what see the story I found was
always the same fishing technology run amok technology and pollution running amok hand-in-hand chasing fewer and fewer fish as the world bleeds more and more. Governments. I found that almost no one was optimistic about a solution. Is it possible. To manage sea. Is it possible to make fishermen stop funding vanishing. And begin to tend to serve. Time. In New Bedford they talk of three years to doomsday. A crisis. Seems over. 400 percent. I want to water so desolate. I want to go halfway
around the world. To. Of. The same warnings every. And the same resistance. What. Do you believe is going to happen to their fleet of Taiwan in July in Taiwan. Spokesman for the group at the western side he said he still hopes he is going to allow the high seas fishing to continue and that if he doesn't what if the government orders an end to it. Now the government the government's policy is according to all the reports out there that we all accept that you have not lied. And in France on the island it will do.
What will you do if they banned drift efficient use of all the people. They said that. Of course good fishing is their life. So they will fight. And if. Broussel that basement fishing they will use violent action. The. Biggest part of the fishermen who are asking the government to do anything better than what we're doing right now because there's no light at the end of the tunnel absolutely no light it's just a it's a doomsday situation if we keep on the way we're going. So that's an open question. That's a long time ago. So that was completed for. 50. Years ago. And. Still growing. So you think it will spring back.
Like. Fish. Fisherman like everybody else. We lift for foot today to hell with tomorrow. Except some of us and that's why the three of us are as sharp because we believe in these kind of things instead of being out there and taking a last call up at the last fish. That's why the rain falls. Over fish the oceans are like the destruction of the. The difference is you can see what's happening. Right. It's hard to. Tell. We've. Taken them take. She's. Expecting a never ending heart hoping everything will be all right. Now something is going on. It's getting. Very
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