tv highlights every week in your inbox. subscribe now. oh, i have been threatened. i have been beaten. i have been sick, a straight did, because we tried to to so 3 of face mark all over the world. environmentalists are in danger. the enemy, roofless corporations corrupted. government agencies and criminal cartels. targeted environmentalists in danger starts october 29th on d. w. 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 the rules, hello,

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

todd now hi, co, real the nets and they've been trolling the watches for an hour and a half here along what's called the vet in 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. they go, we've got a decent catch here. oh, boy. 40. 0 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 of heard up our conveyor belt is down today. it's an electrical problem all by slowly. that's not something i want to mess with. i won't try to fix

it myself. on the voicemail i called the electrician earlier, but he'll probably come on wednesday. brussels woodcock will have to manage without for a couple of days. pica has to shovel in the shrimp by hand. sham prices had already fallen in 2019. then came the pandemic when locked downs and other restrictions effected the fishing season. retail demand dropped with ion live 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 cool. when mid october, our steering system broke up and the repairs cost me $10000.00 euros. i've been told all of the old game, 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 on the last last winter. really

soccer little icon 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 return 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 the, i'm the one who plans went 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 anyone. it 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 see will to directly on the boat. let'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 tens 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. they appealed by hand and end up back on the european monkeys. the smallest fish and pieces of shell a sifted 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 caught these. the other fishes,

how 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 $400.00 euros, a fuel at all. we'll. i'll apple, great for one and a half hours work before it. 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. all right, so it's why don't advise you 130 kilos to day. well go, 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, the hopper 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 a refrigerated truck waiting to take the swim to then next destination. ward off eugenio luck, hawksoft. they're headed to cooks hoffman to be sorted, preserved, and packed, and blue. and then they'll go to the netherlands orland gisela holland. from there

i imagine they'll go on to morocco game of football and they'll be back here in 4 weeks. oh, no. with right fresh caught he then the mall called ending appeal to morocco. and i think because wages are low as they're owned by doc can just i can saw process and we freeze the shouldn't. there does da see your dog that's not allowed here in germany long so that 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. almost all the wholesalers know what they need. no visible, that's why they always dictate the price of all the kindling moto rash lemma. worst thing is you start fishing on monday, which you don't find out the price until friday. they 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 sourcing plants, trim from denmark, germany, and the netherlands, assorted 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'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 will motivate the shrimp fisher store 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. 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 difference in price. 50 years ago, marty's funded plus sent his 1st shipment of shrimp by truck to a purpose built shedding plant in morocco. soon he drew more in vestos to day more than 5 and him phases work for the data industry. that gives data wholesalers, an edge and touch fishers also have a better deal. all on this earth, we have 0 in the netherlands. we have shrimp fishers who catch large volumes and they make good money. they all are the dutch fishers always follow the shrimp moment gun is at the moment the best catches are in denmark, only car now think they 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 on his as lives prevails. son,

nicholas used to be a shrimp wholesaler himself, but he sold his chaise 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 small vessels, they net only around a quarter as much shrimp as the dutch competitors all have schmidt hoped to retire last year, but couldn't find a buyer for his shoulder. 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

a 40 year career. prices are too low. the fishing season was restricted, and the catch was poor. dangers, 10 crates and 24 hours of fishing. i should have caught twice as much during that time or just to break even. remember, all is gone. 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 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. also. right? you want to kilo right? like hulu and a half. i love everybody. let's johnny kept him on that, but if we hadn't had this last year, we would have earned a lot less. 05, we didn't earn much anyway if you could with an offer, but we sold a bit more directly and at the price, they're actually worth that. they cost $10.00 euros and if someone says that's too expensive for me, fine. how about yourself? i'm good. i told a customer once i need to make a living from this, you can go and buy a brought worse 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. no, not really always good, precious. best into every day. i'm kind of untied,

honest guns like squeeze gently here at the tail and pull it off of it. then you have to meet with them 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 eluded them. the dutch still set the prices, transport the ship 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 that's an n. as in grandma, our goal ultimately is to market our shrimp ourselves or just then we could for instance, fried some shrimp when they're cheap and sell them when they're more expensive. on study on that home old. so we had 100000 euro starter 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 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, hopefully to live. it's often one thing about fisher says they are impatient, through gain foss. i'd fisher or fight it is fisher's an patient by nature and

expect results fast, or they would have opted shay or give or 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 insurance ish, 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 schilling could work on a large scale video yet, and this is a handful of the waste which comes out of the machine. sheena engineer the thought, it should only really be shell parts design. he has a rock, 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 type will act. okay, as of ours,

al machine is designed to work with the shrimps resistance harb either or impedance as a physicist would say, hi, this is father. either i rock 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 cell waves to crack, the shells would be more reliable. dillon has come as long as we have the shrimp, the mechanical shelling is better for a company and the demand for shrimp is there. we're going to like ok, they mostly for tourists and 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. mm hm. it's an issue for

a lot of people. the transport and its impact on defense will be the same, deferring as of a wine. we don't want to be cheaper. the morocco. shrimp is still a product that's worth its price. i buy, we know the fishes don't earn what they should on my feet from like, our goal is for the fishes to make a bit more money. hm. 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 not been sure if you think about it, the shrimp for 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 clave as 1st model is promising. now she wants to build an optimized prototype, but key parts are in short supply. and there is another unexpected obstacle. now the only 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 corn. then the next notice of opposition came in 35. the question that springs to mind is, who was working with these lawyers. wasn't given that we're pretty sure it's one of the major competitors on the huge in the fishing business didn't he's of his i and i have the resources to keep filing notices like emitted of the a life big amphibian. she's now getting support from the state of low is saxony and the tune. and institute of c fisheries in play . ma half est 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 and maritime sociologist believes the project could have enormous benefits for the region. to handle spear home can differ shots without trim fissures had next to no leeway at the moment to respond to crises that sneak dollar. that's because they have no choice who they sell their shrimp to the ne shrimp hobble will all to got new to call the most of it goes to this cause i 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 and i realize that shuffles couldn't counter i'm tire a maybe one day. we could have smaller showing facilities right near the harbor sensitive liners, and she lost our little little calling haven stuff from newton. would us as in full 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 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 returned to the harbour. home at last, mike and high call went 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 blew onions,

squawk jerkins and trem. that's all. just add salt and pepper hiker 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 array of hope wrong? well, they're still developing edison. it's later the 4th auto shoes. anytime you're almost, 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 one, 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, weak and powerless, thought are willing to mock our, the german government does nothing for fishing. on the contrary, i thought,

but none of them are optimistic about the future to the 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 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 hear the 1st one, so for 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 off every shrimpton 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. and by that, 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. 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 asked, holding tub. ah, maybe one day, one of his shrimp shilling scenes 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. haley, this is a great herbal, the current quality. cool. young. so my from funnel from good here in the principal, i think it's a good idea. and as with before, he 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 phone's not a dad wish? angry, not bisson. so roxanne does some point. it's something we've noticed too, that professors 2 feet of clanging has gone, were selling shrimp by the boat. people often ask if we have peeled ones that might us 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 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. clinical electrical, i just want to get by then. i don't want to get rich, but to make a decent living, a boy not 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, don't not for it. pretty full like ah, the coming year will be make or break for local fishes. they need fair prices and pick a catches to stay afloat. the new shelling machine could be a source of hon. oh

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