ah, listen carefully. don't know how do you miss to the girl? ah, feel the magic discover the world around you? ah, subscribe to the w documentary on youtube. ah ah, the german shrimp industry is floundering low prices during the covered 19 pandemic and increased fuel costs are threatening the fishes livelihoods. they're dependent on the dutch wholesalers, they supply law,

the wholesalers know exactly what they need so they can dictate the price the kill because they just do what they want with. as christine clayvon, engineer from friesland in northern germany is developing a modern, shrunk peeling machine, which stands to liberate german fishes from their dependence on dutch wholesalers the pound fab. yet the shell is burst open by sound waves. that's the trick here, pentagon ah, ah, almost every night mike mushed at, takes his boat out to the coastal waters north of claim a half and he's under enormous pressure. he's and very little in the last 3 years and narrowly escaped bankruptcy. he even considered setting his boat, but no one wants to get into the industry right now. his fishing tots now.

hi, co reels the nets and they've been trolling the watches for an hour and a half here along what's called the buttons. see, the water is just a few me to steep. they're hoping for a better catch than what they've had in recent months ago. go. we've got a decent catch here. oh, boy. boy. oh, wow. looks pretty good. we've got 3 or 4 crates here. i'd say like on really wow, they're big ones. well the thought at a 3rd of our conveyor belt is down today. it's an electrical problem or vice

florida. that's not something i want to mess with. i won't try to fix it myself. on her was what i called the electrician earlier, but he'll probably come on wednesday wasn't quite caught. we'll have to manage without for a couple of days. hika has to shovel in this shrimp by hand shrunk. prices had already fallen in 2019. then came the pandemic when locked downs and other restrictions affected, the fishing season. retail demand dropped on the bill for white glove over 3 years now we've been living off our savings. somebody. nissan obama. it's not exactly from hand to mouth, but it's been getting worse and worse little tool in mid october, our steering system broke and the repairs cost me $10000.00 euros. okay. and home, all of the old game, most of the level of war owned for them. and then in late november, the auxiliary engine broke, one mobilizing, told that was another 30000 euros. gone on the last last winter. really,

soccer rental i co separates the bi catch from the shrimp, smaller fish and starfish. go back into the sea. the fishes fish off when the tide is high and stay out at sea for 12 hours. mike went returned from his turn until sunrise when he calls haul, we come along. when i'm out on the water, there's no stress. it's just me on a stove. i'm, i'm the, i'm the one who plans when to go out. if you're on your own and you're free, well, pretty much all you need to keep calm. stress is no use to any one. was a lot of an old bravado. you can't catch shrimp by force, divide, come on, all kind of come trim trolling is

hard work. the shrimp up boiled live and see water directly on the boat. let's say they taste the best fancy of you to see these spots turning white here. that means they're done off. that's when the meat starts to separate from the shell . after boiling, the flesh turns pink or red. it's why the shrimp are sometimes called red gold. but the shrimp need to be peeled fast. most of the catch goes to the netherlands square, it's then send to shelling plants and morocco there peeled by hand and end up back on the european marcus. the smallest fish and pieces of shell assisted out by vibrating says it's a good start. several crates, full and one whole is unusual. mike and hi, co won't let in on with a quote these. the other fishes to nice will have to find their own fishing crowds

themselves. i've all, i go. how much do you have? 03 crates. great. like this 3 crates, that's nearly 400 euros of fuel and all the, all that's great for one and a half hours work before i'm happy it makes going out worth it holds it almost 10 hours later they've hold up the next 5 more times. they filled 11 crates . one of their best catches of the year. ah, ah, by now they 20 kilometers off the coast. time to head back to

mike tallies up the nights, catch. it's an excellent night's work. o 2. it's why hello guys, you 130 kilos today. oh, good. that was great. i'm happy. with all now i'm off to bed. followed i'll head out again tonight, is it ols ah birch? speak? a noise felt can only be navigated at high tide. that's when the fishing troll is head in a dutch wholesale. it already has the refrigerated truck waiting to take the swim to their next destination. waldorf eugenio snuck hawksoft. they're headed to cooks hoffman to be sorted, preserved, and packed, and live. and then they'll go to the netherlands orland gisela holland. from there

i imagine they'll go on to morocco game of an old. oh. and they'll be back here in 4 weeks. oh no, thank you. all right, fresh caught he then the mall called ending the appeal to morocco and i think because wages are low as their own by dab can just i can saw process and we freeze the shrimp there does docile. you don't. that's not allowed here in germany. long from the said he couldn't do that here. marlins did a puzzle volkswagen. they normally set the price at the auction. it's a question of supply and demand more also and the wholesalers know what they need no visible. that's why they always dictate the price or more the key handling moto rash lemma. worst thing is, you start fishing and monday, which you don't find out the price until friday. the can do whatever they want with us. then make a profit either way. give them a grade. ah, the ton of outcomes in the netherlands has been europe's from capital since the 19

ninety's. most ne shrimp ascend here and then shipped on to morocco. the gold trim company operates one of the country's largest sorting plants. shrimp from denmark, germany and the netherlands are sorted by size and pack for transport. the netherlands is keen to support its domestic fish and shrimp industry. more so than germany, hemoglobin all since opening his and shelling plant in morocco, my taste funded play as built up a monopoly and become a shrimp millionaire. together with his son, he is one of the largest buyers of german shrimp. and his familiar with the complaints of german fishes about low prices. tom, silver yoga. they pay a price, they hope will motivate the shrimp fisher store to stay in the harbor, but to go back out to sea. and the but i desire when the price is too high, people who eat shrimp that don't buy them anymore. and i think that's,

that's how it is. not all the mostly of all the has to pay more, but i'll be pushing down the price. looking at about 50 years ago, marty's funded plus sent his 1st shipment of shrimp by truck to a purpose built selling plant in america. soon he drew more investors to day more than 5000 employees work for the dutch industry. lat, gives dutch wholesalers an edge. and dutch fishes also have a better deal and all are good. the 1st the have 0 in another lens. we have some fishers who catch large volumes and they make good money. the whole on the dutch fissures, always follow the shrimp moment gunners at the moment. the best characters are in denmark, only canal. it can go out fishing at wind force of 7 or 8, only the germans have smaller boats and can't go out at wind for 7 or 8 unless they be risking their lives. and is as lives prevailed. funny,

cliff used to be a shrimp wholesaler himself, but he sold his shares long ago, making him a multi millionaire pipeline. the company he co founded is the biggest in the shrimp industry to day. they are shedding plants and morocco have helped them dominate the european market. but the company was not willing to grant us an interview. ah, transition in the north german harbor of flame and half smaller vessels. they nate only around a quarter as much shrimp as the dutch competitors. olaf schmidt hoped to retire last year, but couldn't find a buyer for his jona. he put in a devil shift to day to help compensate for the losses of the last 3 months. the past 3 years have been the worst crisis he's experienced over 40 years. career

prices are too low. the fishing season was restricted and the catch was poor. i think is 10 crates in 24 hours of fishing. i should have caught twice as much during that time as like just to break even if it were real read all i'm going home now off to bed. his rental 1st be taken to produce his association and cooks often and then on to the netherlands with his brother to ne and his friend hall. if he sells a small portion of his catch directly to tourists and locals. it's an important source of extra income. i one kilo

might have holiday, my wife called yesterday thought. all right, so you want to kilo right? like hulu and a half. i love my body. let's johnny kept him on that. if we hadn't had this last year, we would have earned a lot less. oh $5.00, we didn't earn much anyway if he quoted an offer, but we sold a bit more directly and at the price they're actually worth if they cost $10.00 euros. and if someone says that's too expensive for me, fine. how big or small. so i'm going, as i told a customer, once i need to make a living from this, you can go and buy a brought worst for 3 euros. if you like. you have a choice. i don't. most of them understand that. oh man, that's why we let steal another one. i'm not really always good, precious bast,

into every day. i'm kind of anti the guns guns like squeeze gently here at the tail and pull it off of it. then you have to meet with us. go with 4th ring up from the tail. ah well enough and about a 100 other fishes founded the produces association almost 10 years ago. ready together with manage a chi honest schmidt, they want to make german shrimp is more independent from the dutch and gain is say, and the price but the shrimp still have to be sent to morocco for painting. so gaining independence from the dutch wholesalers has eluted them the dutch still set the prices transport the trend to morocco. have them peeled

their ship them back to europe and sell them. the german produce is association hasn't been able to break this monopoly that you, that's an n. as in grandma, our goal ultimately is to market our shrimp ourselves. or just then we could for instance, freeze some shrimp when they're cheap and sell them when they're more expensive. on study on that column old. so we had 100000 euro started capital and wanted to turn that 100000 euros equity into an investment of 2.5 to 3000000. when it's a 1st, you need to find a bank that has faith and you get for the advantage as i see it, which of course to partner doesn't care about as much out of as that are association as now, debt free. and we're on the way to raising our next round of equity. so we can take the next step i want to learn and through hall from to live. it's often one thing about fisher says. they are impatient to gain fast, i'd fisher or fight it is fishers and a patient by nature and expect results fast,

or they would have opted shay or level targeted. an engineer from friesland is also involved in the attempt to gain more independence from the dutch and they partners in morocco. christine clever estron fish. his daughter is a mechanical engineer. she wrote her master's thesis on trim shelling to this day. it's a process that has defined automation in speaker neu felt she's inspecting one of the few shrimp peeling machines in operation. the machine has never been used on a larger scale. this chilling machine works mechanically. it opens the shells with round thin blades,

but can only peal around 60 killers of shrimp an hour. an employee has to remain at the machine to handle malfunctions and to check the product. otherwise, too many shrimp and up and peeled in the waste container. christine clever is now developing a new machine that's far more efficient. it does not have to be constantly monitored and will be able to process up to a ton of shrimp per hour. this would be the 1st time that machine shilling could work on a large scale video yet, and this is a handful of the waste which comes out of the machine engineer. the thought it should only really be shell parts design here the wrong. but here we have one that wasn't completely separated from it shell under shadow here. and here's another where the meat is still on it. on hank, as you see that the yield is extremely low, which makes it unappealing. mac had one act ocoee as

a balance. al machine is designed to work with the shrimps. resistance are by, or impedance, as a physicist would say, hi, this is father. either iraq, an adverb, either standard. this resistance can be overcome by sound waves. that's the trick behind this on this machine to him, so you still have to peel some of the shrimp by hand. christine clever invention would eliminate that. she's convinced that using special sound waves to crack, the shells would be more reliable. the line has come as long as we have the shrimp, the mechanical shelling is better for a company. and the demand for shrimp is their move onto life, mostly for tourists in hotels, right? oh. like mostly for private buyers. they come to us because they don't want shrimp that's been shipped half way around the world. it's an issue for a lot of people,

the transport and its impact on the fence will be there. so missing ring. as of a why need we don't want to be cheaper. the morocco in the shrimp is still a product that's worth it. surprised by we know the fishes don't earn what they should on my feet comes. i. our goal is for the fishes to make a bit more money on that, and the quality of the ship mate will be better than the product from morocco. because we don't have to do as much to preserve the meat. if we do the shelling right here, we have much more often than shem. if you think about it, the shrimp for morocco are preserved and liquid, so they keep for 6 months, that's the preservatives. they just don't taste like real shrimp anymore. we can bring the original flavor back. christine clave as 1st model is promising. now she wants to build an optimized prototype, but key parts are in short supply. and there's another unexpected obstacle down bomb. the reason i can't,

and i don't want to show our machine at the moment, is although the german patent is secure. we also applied for european one. a notice of opposition was filed last year, but we were able to ward that off in quantum then the next notice of opposition came in. though, though, deprived the question that springs to mind is, who was working with these lawyers? zahn wouldn't giving over at we're pretty sure it's one of the major competitors. me not home on the huge in the fishing business is f as i, and they have the resources to keep filing notices like emitted as a life big answer been. she's now getting support from the state of lowest saxony and the tune and institute of c fisheries in play. ma, half a state research project, provided her with 2300000 euros in funding. now

a team of 7 is working to optimize the machine to be as last not a maritime sociologist believes the project could have enormous benefits for the region. there hung spear home in the for shots with a shrimp fishers have next to no leeway at the moment to respond to crises to sneak doll on. that's because they have no choice who they sell their shrimp to the north seas. shrimp hobble will malta got neither co, most of it goes to this quality monopoly artist meister, if they have an alternative have supported by an effective new showing technology not and a regional value chain. then part of that catch could be sold that way. else technic on a radio line, virtual from schedule counter. i'm tire a maybe one day we could have smaller showing facilities right near the harbor sensitive liners and she looks on little little calling here in stockton gibson. what does this info or what might be more economically efficient? one large regional showing, planted with a larger production line route on our course when federal senior. within 3 years,

i hope these plans will become a reality. the sand banks of the varden seas stretched out for miles into the open voices. they offer unique habitat for scenes, birds, shrimp and other creatures. ah, the passions formed by the nazis ebb and flow are only visible at low tide. the fishes have adapted to the rhythm of the tides. ah, high tide is when they return to the harbour home at last. mike and high call one to get to bed soon so they can head out to sea again to night. but before that, they make a shrimp salad for a late breakfast with kevin official from a neighboring village. we bow onions squawk gurkin, and trim. that's all,

just add salt and pepper. high, cool, and kevin, both come from fishing families. only mike comes from a different background. he trained as a painter before he discovered his passion for the see on a north sea holiday. local ball, but his doubts about his future as a fisher are growing. the whole is the new shrimp peeling machine array of hope. oh, well, they're still developing it. it's light on the 4th. a photo shoot. anytime you have a home. the main thing is that our pattern doesn't go to the netherlands, no more, but otherwise we'll never be in charge of our own business. we need to get a bit of monopoly going to, if not, the dutch will control everything. same as always in the netherlands. dressers are valued, but not here in germany. they like to keep you small here, you might say, week and powerless, thought of region mark are the german government does nothing for fishing on the

country. but none of them are optimistic about the future will be on. many fishes have been bankrupted by the crisis of the recent years. those who are left like mike face a tough battle christine clever, is paying a visit to her parents here in the north of germany. her father, gunter clever, was himself a shrimp or before becoming an e. u fishing official. now he, it's a small producers association. he's the big supporter of his daughter's plans and helps with organizational matters. she shows him pictures of recent tests of the special soundwave technology. you'll hear the 1st one, so this booker fits of shell that have been blasted off and down here are more bits of shell. i can scroll it up and others, right. and he, you can see how much meat there is. that's interesting on the photo. we want to get this much meat of every shrimp as out by even when you sheldon bye hand. this bit

is usually broken off for her 1st attempt, christine adapted a machine that was originally built for another purpose of his asthma as, as, as the 1st step on. if you can see, we had to bring the shrimp to one point anchor because the machine we're testing is just too big, like a hub. i'm so we put the shrimp in a bag of water up. and by that, as you see here, was my head auctions. eat she wants to keep the details of her invention, a secret to protect her patent application from the competition, the boyfriend and of the machine of mark, they want to prevent the machine from coming to market in the store and in the medical, the investors in the morocco shelling plants have invested millions on vending and she'll get the shelling could be done here in the region. again, their investment would be obsolete full of went on fossils on album to fisher.

susie easter since i but in the past it's always been the fishers who had to pay the bill on both of if especially after just recently must be my hope is that this machine and bringing the shelling operation back to our coastal region could break up the monopoly of our dutch wholesalers, one up ne madonica blocking via miss. i think it will take a while. we estimate it will take 8 to 10 months until a small prototype is ready in one. and then we'll have our 1st and peeled shrimp. it's the asking, how can cotton? ah, maybe one day, one of his shrimps shilling sheen's will be right here, inflaming, ah, my hulu and his friends me up to smoke some fish. ha, a cancer like, oh, laugh most of his friends have spent their entire lives fishing level so heard

about the new invention. yeah. hi alice. this is a great herbal. the current quality crew is on that my phone funnel from good here in the principal, i think it's a good idea and as would be funky new den globe reached out. if it really works, then i think it has a chance us or our region has a chance to grow a bit. do you think your phone's not a downwash angry? not bisson. so roxanne does the sun point? it's something we've noticed too. all that professors 2 feet of flags go on. we're selling shrimp by the boat. people often ask if we have peeled ones, mind us unbidden could. if we could offer that at a reasonable price, a lot of people would buy them pies. thus road free to customers would buy peeled shrimp, named the brutal portico o mike and hi,

co head out again. in the early evening. the sun is setting once more on the budding sea. normally they don't head out in the winter when storms and waves make fishing dangerous. but this winter, they both went out just to make ends meet. looks like school. i just want to get by them. i don't want to get rich, but to make a decent living a blind off didn't love more than to be able to take a break from fishing from christmas till the spring. the only mother we don't want to get rich. we just want to live off fishing. i don't, not for it to be fertile. ah, the coming year will be make or break for local fishes. they need fair prices and bigger catches to stay afloat. the new shelling machine could be a source of hon. oh

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