beyond theology, as we take on the world, 8 hours, i do all this is weird all about the stories that matter to you with whatever it takes by policemen follow with those who we are, your is actually on fire made for mines. 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 those hello,

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, engineered from friesland in northern germany is developing a modern, shrunk peeling machine, which stands to liberate german fishes. from their dependence on dutch wholesalers deposits 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 on 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. 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 by florida

. that's not something i want to mess with. i won't try to fix it myself on of was when i called the electrician earlier, but he'll probably come on wednesday wasn't quite talk. we'll have to manage without for a couple of days. hika has to shovel in the shrimp by hand shrunk. prices had already fallen in 2019. then came the pandemic when locked downs, and other restrictions effected. the fishing season. retail demand dropped on the end of a white glove over for 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. when mid october, our steering system broke and the repairs cost me $10000.00 euros. i've been told all of the old gear, most of the level of war owned for them. and then in late november, the auxiliary engine broke. one moment let me pull that was another 30000 euros gone bill, and we'll was last winter really soc livable. 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 divided. come on, all kind of trim trolling is hard work. the shrimp up boiled live and civil to directly on the boat. that's how

they taste the best ones, the death 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, where it's then send to shelling plants and morocco the appealed by hand and end up back on the european monkeys. 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 where they cool these. the other fishes out tonight will have to

find their own fishing grounds 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 on. 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 honda.

mike tallies up the nights, catch. it's an excellent night's work. 02, 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. the load i'll head out again. tonight is the totals ah, for it speak, a noise felt can only be navigated at high tide. that's when the fishing tool is head in a dutch wholesale, it already has the refrigerated truck waiting to break the swim to their next destination. waldorf eugenio snuck hawksoft. they're headed to cooks hoffman to be sorted, preserved and packed. and then they'll go to the netherlands. all gisela hollow from there, i imagine they'll go on to morocco game of little and they'll be back here in 4

weeks. oh no. i don't right. fresh caught within the mall of indic appeal to morocco. and i think because wages are low as their own by doc can just i can saw process and we freeze the shrimp their docile. you don't, that's not allowed here in germany. johnson 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 of all the queue and billing mono rash lemma. worst thing is, you start fishing and monday, but you don't find out the price until friday. they can do whatever they want with us. then make a profit either way. do you them upgrade? ah, the ton of not come in the netherlands has been europe's from capital since the 19

ninety's most north, the shrimp ascent here and then shipped on to morocco. the gold trim company operates one of the country's largest sourcing plants. shrimp from denmark, germany and the netherlands are sorted by size and packed for transport. the netherlands is keen to support its domestic fish and shrimp industry. more so than germany, mo, glove at all. since opening his and shelling plant and morocco, my taste funded plan has built up a monopoly and become a shrimp millionaire. together with his son, he's one of the largest buyers of german shrimp, and he's familiar with the complaints of german fishes about low prices. tom, sylvia, they pay a price, they hope motivate the shrimp fishers don't to stay in the harbor, but to go back out to see and the but i desire when the price is too high, people who eat shrimp don't buy them anymore. that's. that's how it is not all

the money of all the has to pay more, but i'll be pushes down the price. difference in price. 50 years ago, marty's funded please send his 1st shipment of shrimp by truck to a purpose built shelling plant in morocco. soon he drew more investors to day more than 5000 him for years work for the dutch industry. that gives dutch wholesalers an edge. and dutch fishes also have a better deal. all on behalf of the have 0 in the netherlands. we have shim fishers who catch large volumes and they make good money. they all are the dutch fishers always follow the shrimp moment, gunners at the moment, the best characters are in denmark, on the canal. it can go out fishing at wind force of 7 or 8, only the germans have smaller boats and can't go out of wind for 7 or 8 unless they be risking their lives. and is as slaves 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 there, shedding plants and morocco have helped them dominate the european market. but the company was not willing to grant us an interview. ah, trent fishes in the north german harbor of flame and half smaller vessels, they nate only around a quarter as much room as the dutch competitors. all of schmidt hoped to retire last year, but couldn't find a buyer for his chola. he put in a double 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

a 40 year career. prices are too low. the fission season was restricted and the catch was poor. i think it 10 crates in 24 hours of fishing. i should have caught twice as much during that time. it is like just to break even a bit of it varies with neural holes go from i'm going home now off to bed, that his rental 1st be taken to produce his association and cooks often and then on to the netherlands with his brother to me 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 listed one killer

by of holiday my wife called yesterday. thoughtful. right? so you want a kilo right? like hulu and a half. i remember the, let's johnny kept him on that. if we hadn't had this last year, we would have earned a lot less. oh, why we didn't earn much anyway if you cooked with an offer, but we sold a bit more directly and at the price, they're actually worth nothing. they cost $10.00 euros, and if someone says that's too expensive for me, fine. but i'll be your, from my to, 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 years. if you like. if you have a choice, i don't, most of them understand that hallmark. wible me, that's still another one. it won't be there always good, precious, best into every day i'm going to untie the gas guns like squeezed gently here at

the tail and pull it off. scene coming off of it, then you have to meet with her. i sent home with 4th ring up from the tail lights and about a 100 other fishes founded the produces association almost 10 years ago. ready together with manager chi honest schmidt, they want to make german shrimp is more independent from the dutch, and gain is say, and the price. but there shrimps still have to be sent to morocco for painting. so gaining independence from the dutch wholesalers has eluded them. the dutch still set the prices transport the trim to morocco, have them peeled their ship them back to europe and sell them the german produces

association hasn't been able to break this monopoly that you let's name is in grandma. our goal ultimately is to market our shrimp ourselves at or does then we could for instance, fried some shrimp when they're cheap and sell them when they're more expensive on stuff. well, not all old. so we had 100000 euro started capital and wanted to turn that 100000 euros equity into an investment of 2.5 to 3000001. so 1st you need to find a bank that has faith and you are there for the advantage as i see it. which of course to partner doesn't care about as much out of as that are. association is now debt free via and we're on the way to raising our next round of equity. so we can take the next step i want to lagging and through harmful to live. it's often one thing about fisher says, they are impatient to gain fuss at fisher or fight it, is fishers in a patient by nature and expect results fast,

or they would have opted schnell or general tardies. an engineer from friesland is also involved in the attempt to gain more independence from the dutch and they partners in morocco. christine clever is shrink 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 no felt she's inspecting one of the few shrimp peeling machines in operation. the machine has never been used on a larger scale. this selling machineworks mechanically. it opens the shelves with round thin blades,

but can only peal around 60 killers of shrimp and our 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 schilling could work on a large scale video yet, and this is a handful of the waste, which comes out of the machine engineer the far. it should only really be shell parts. fine. he has a rock, but here we have one that wasn't completely separated from it shell under shadow here, and he is another where the meat is still on it on hand. as you see that the yield is extremely low, which makes it unappealing. mac type will act ocoee as of ours,

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 and i to be the 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 klivis, invention would eliminate that. she's convinced that using special sound waves to crack, the shells would be more reliable. the longest come as long as we have the shrimps, the mechanical shelling is better for a company. and the demand for shrimp is there live on 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 defense will be there. so lifting as of, if i need, we don't want to be cheap of the morocco. shrimp is still a product that's worth it. surprised by we know the fishes don't earn what they should on. buffy becomes like, 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 means. if we do the shelling right here, we have much more often than shem. if you think about it, the shrimp from morocco, a 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 cave 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 to the home. 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. and then the next notice of opposition came in them. so deprived the question that springs to mind is, who was working with these lawyers. wouldn't get into that. we're pretty sure it's one of the major competitors home on the huge in the fishing business, his office and they have the resources to keep filing notices emitted as a life big answer when she's now getting support from the state of lois 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 night. a maritime sociologist believes the project could have enormous benefits for the region. the handle spear home can differ shots from thought. shrimp fishers had next to no leeway at the moment to respond to crisis to sneak dollar. that's because they have no choice who they sell their shrimp to the north sea. shrimp abo, will malta got neither co, most of it goes to this quality monopoly of most if they have an alternative have supported by an effective new showing technology not and a regional value chain, then part of the catch could be sold bad way else technic. another, you know, that shuffles couldn't come to, 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 from stockton woodson. 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 sandbags of the varden seas stretched out for miles into the open voices. they offer unique habitat for seals, 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, a. fisher from a neighboring village. we both onions quart,

gurkin and trim. well, 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 c on the north sea holiday livable but his doubts about his future. as a fisher are growing the whole is the new shrimp peeling machine a ray of hope? oh, well, they're still developing it. it's light on the 4th. oh, shoot. any time you're almost. the main thing is that our patton doesn't go to the netherlands, know why? 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. dishes are valued, but not here in germany. they like to keep you small. here you might say, weak and powerless, though to produce much are the german government does nothing for fission on the

country. finally, but none of them are optimistic about the future. 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 here it's a small producers association. he's a 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 booking fits of shell that have been blasted off and down here are more bits of shell. i can scroll it up, you can either the 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 all my

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 him. or 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 biting. as you see here was my hit options and 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 invest warren 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, east us her since i but in the past it's always been the fishers who had to pay the bell on both of the 1st parish murder, sir. just recently mushy. 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 hudson. 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 asked holding tub. ah, maybe one day, one of his shrimp shilling sheen's will be right here in flaming. ah, my hulu and his friends, nice 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. haley, this is a great herbal, the current quality, cool young. that my from funnel from good here in the principal, i think it's a good idea. and as would be funky, knew it didn't globally. so 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 folks not doug, wish every nor mrs. watson does the some point. it's something we've noticed too. oh, that professor stood feet of wagner's gone. we're selling shrimp by the boat. people often ask if we have peeled ones, but my das unbeaten could. if we could offer that at a reasonable price, a lot of people would buy them pies. thus wooden feet of customers would buy peeled, tramp, named the brutal portico o mike and high 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. clinical electrical, 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 last 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, looked up. 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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