tv Reporter Deutsche Welle August 5, 2019 2:15am-2:30am CEST
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thinks deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotype. of the country. from picturesque drama. to me it's all that. i'm rachel join me for me to. post. his goal is to make the fish trade better fresher more sustainable fair that's the concept behind mohammad business. tomorrow or the fish will be in frankfurt and the day after that restaurant guest will be able to enjoy fish from. the international competition is fierce will the senegalese fisherman be able to maintain his high standards.
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in about. hands are empty as he visits one of his customers today. business has been slow lately. hope rob watch. a good. i've been expecting you why haven't you been coming over here i'm on this one all right as you can hear in my in bed i'm always in berlin. but why didn't you bring any fish with this right i'm very sorry about that business has been difficult lately. everyone knows him as moma today he brings bad news since he hasn't been receiving enough oh it is he will have to hold to live for us with the time being. it's just not worth it and we'd
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need a lot of around 400 kilograms to make a profit past this big list but member won't give up hope. he's sure he can get enough. is one of my looking for more customers with high orders but will manage. to shop and. shop to go. i wish you all the best thank you thank god it is dark isn't always here if you have more fish. but. the above is a. mother's partner to support him wholeheartedly she assists him whenever she can and firmly believes in his business idea. together the couple came up with a plan to win a major customer. with a little luck they might soon reel in
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a really big fish. metra one of germany's largest grocery chains has expressed interest. it's great to be in touch with a huge store like metro i'm going to. throw a bonus now we have to make sure where well prepared for. but 1st momo needs to prove that his product is up to par with the high standards metro sets for hygiene. visit. they want evidence that the company in senegal at him is to hygiene regulations and that all staff is trained regularly you know standards. and they want to see what the hygiene standards are like. everything being disinfected regularly. how often is everything cleaned i need if they want to see
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a schedule. can we manage that. well let's draw the plans 1st and then we'll know. the bureaucracy alone is a huge challenge without it to support the flood of papers would be sheer unmanageable. and day to day life beyond obscure bureaucratic formulations and germany's obsession with certificates most content living in germany but even after 10 years he doesn't quite feel at home. there's a very. long senegal is still my home i lived with my mother and father my brothers and sisters everybody lived there and i will always miss senegal. and i wish i could visit every 2 or 3 months. yeah i thought it would that's what we want. and they wish doesn't it come true much sooner than expected just a few weeks later moments on his way to decode metro has placed
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a trial order they want to see the quality of his fish. to make sure everything runs perfectly burma wants to go there to support his brother adama who manages the business in senegal. the next morning he's at the port of a small seaside town south of the car this is where the pirogue small traditional boats set out to catch fish for members company. today the boss himself is also on board. small shrimp is hooked to spate members fishes don't use nets they stick to fishing lines it's more work to catch fish this way but it's also more sustainable and that's really important to moma. in on line a better. way i don't know because they want to squash the net. then the idea is there's 2 years old he's been looking for to be a pest for 3 years it's finally given him
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a prospect in life. thank you and him being like i've already tried to go to europe twice and each time i failed it was you know she was limited in my. father and my father left me as perhaps someone i could you know. now that i worked for to the passion i've been able to afford an outboard engine with and even buy a 2nd perot. in the. business is going well. at least. in the late afternoon the fishes return to port with a catch as soon as they reach dry and then they have to hurry average temperatures here are around 40 degrees celsius making it quite a challenge to maintain the cooling chain the fish isn't deep frozen but it needs to stay under 2 degrees to meet metro's quality standards. the 1st stop the fish make on their long trip to germany. this company was also impacted by the slow
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business went to the parish the manager hopes things pick up for members soon. and. passion is important to our business. right now they make up a quarter of our fresh fish export big just imagine losing 25 percent of your turnover. the feed. see that has major consequences. well up it starts with having to let go of workers here in senegal losing your job causes huge problems don't having to lay off multiple people has a deep impact on the community of the reserve. in senegal almost half the population is unemployed young people in particular often set out for europe in hope of a better future. i want my business to give young people in
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senegal a chance to work. more slowly don't have to migrate to europe and can stay and support their families it is similar. if western african countries could manage to set up their own sustainable fishery they would be able to create up to $300000.00 jobs. but so far they mostly sell their fishing licenses to the e.u. to china or to other countries. with a huge troll is and fishing nets these then quickly stifle smaller local competition. unlike other colleagues in their field fishers working for to be a pest don't need to worry about their future on average than about 20 percent move if they learned the metro deal that security will stay at least for another few months and if. i. right now the company supports about 20 families that's 20 families that don't need to
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worry about leaving cynical. a little something about on the that. the steady income that fishes like bumba can bring home to their families provide stability and opportunities. to mentor now on our own little and i explain to them become with one a new client and resist. the business grows. be able to grow with us a bit but it. sounds. too good to know. this wonderful news. for me for my parents and for my entire family when. i'm going to do everything we can to make sure the business
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keeps running. that evening momo brings home the remaining fish that couldn't be loaded onto the plane to germany in time for. our i mean you know. the most sisters approach if they brother the successful businessmen. i do there's no i'm of ever since he founded to about pass the family has been much better off than we used to like so many things now we have everything enough food and electricity and if things go on like this we hope we can renovate our house next year we're so proud of momo as mike and i'm not but i was. just like every visit saying that bali is the hardest part. but business comes 1st. the 1st delivery went well but no no no wants to oversee the 2nd delivery being
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dispatched in fact thinks it's 4 in the morning at mattress fresh fish near frankfurt airport from here the goods are distributed throughout the country. mohamed i don't. feel yucky menko is the quality manager here only the best products pass his watchful eye. it looks good and it smells just as good that's the most important this is the 2nd box it's the same here it's no problem that some pressure bigger and some are smaller the quality is what matters in this case it's good. if margaret and i like it when the fish look so fresh and lovely and doesn't cause any trouble and the customer always likes being served nice fresh fish right. just because the other. in the street the 1st delivery from senegal was a success. last night is warsaw with the.
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i'm so glad i did speak to the quality is of it. the very 1st delivery made a good impression it will me and i am going to make an effort to keep things that way you saw was. for me being fair. they've passed the 1st hurdle metro's happy with the quality of the fish from now on most us to deliver fresh fish to frankfurt twice a week in total up to one tonne his expectations were to have pets have become reality fishing can be sustainable and fair.
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