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year. 100000000 of the animals are killed for use in cosmetics, animal feed, and this is like shark fin soup in europe. it's big business types are expensive. the goal of a c, a marine biologist uses a hidden camera to uncover the truth behind the trade. unsettling site. it's an over expectation of nature and then at the it's 4 30 am in vigo, a major phishing port on the spanish atlantic coast. it's home to one of your largest fish markets. the premises is off limits to the public with a 100 meters away. our team is fitting marine biologist lucas miller. with a hidden camera, the are ready ready. the

market halls are guarded by an array of fences surveillance cameras, port police, and security officials. all designed to keep on authorized people out ruler is going to try to sneak in. it's the only way he can document the quantities of shark that are being sold here on in, in part 2000 and the green and portugal had the world's biggest shock fishing fleet song operating in the atlantic and other oceans the state. because this is one of the world's biggest chart trade homes, i know that goes on sex pittsville. we make contact with the local industry and snyder who wants to remain anonymous. he's scoping out the area to let lu customer not know what to watch out for. meanwhile, beulah and reporter, po, niga track which boats have entered the port destin price of these are 3 fishing boats that arrived yesterday and when by dean. by those 2 are what we call long liners on each side. they catch tuna sort fish on sharp know of

spanish boons of hi site. so that means they could well adjust, unloaded sharks, high up on selling certain types of chart is still legal throughout the you. but increasingly politicians and experts are questioning the trade. that's one reason why many and vigo are wary of the media that's i'll see if it's over exploitation of nature and then up to, if we take these fish out of the ocean, well enough to strong and tighten marine habit times comes of names while i run this old sea on sister has been to years researching sharks and their role in marine ecosystems. he dives with blue sharks, mekaux sharks, and tiger sharks and various parts of the world without a cage to protect him. he studies their behavior and collects data on population and distribution higher. but sharks have been a lifelong passion for me kind of plus an obsession on the lives. at the same time . it's important to keep it as in prospective and to be objective,

see prospect even after succession for what a data decide. so because i can't let my personal feelings get in the way when it comes to evaluating an entire industry. the lots of people here in be go, rely on for their livelihood, and again, seem to see from the medicines, young people, the 30 minutes later, our informant is back. with house security. we only have a few hours before the goods are sold and taken away. the camera on. yeah, i'm ready. ready? with done. so you guys later really wants to find out how many sharks are sold here. we were told that another tv crew found no shock meat. when they filmed at the market, there was also no significant shock cash on sale during a visit last year. by then e u commission, or for environment,

oceans and fisheries. virginia is sick of issues, but was not just a coincidence. the has no trouble in passing through the entrance gate down there is a car belonging to the port police, but he keeps going walking purposefully past the 1st large building, the just passing the hall with a small fish species or so from buying off. thanks to our informant, he knows that the larger fish are sold in the hall. at the end of this walkway. he gets a few suspicious looks from port employees. finally, he reaches the sales floor with an area about the size of 2 football pitches. inside traders are inspecting goods. getting caught filming here would be awkward to say the least. at the back of the home. the not finds the sharks.

several tons of them stacked on at least 15 pallets. just google, excuse me, as the are those blue sharks festival fits into data? yeah. phase and big ones too, or just juveniles just small ones. there are quotas in place for blue sharks caught in the atlantic limit of around $58000.00 tons per year. the european fisheries control agency carries out random inspections to monitor compliance. nobody actually knows exactly how many blue sharks there are. but marine biologist lucas miller, is alarmed by the number of dead fish here around 4 tons worth. he takes notes pretending to be a busy trader, then to avoid attracting attention. he leaves the market as a fair film, some juveniles and so there are quite

a lot of baby sharks in districts on such i can tell the numbers are quite high to it's an unsettling site. and so i was about to land back at the hotel, the biologist and reporter watched the footage and finish shop. candice. it's shocking to see these little sharks that are basically just been born out is less than a year old us and yeah. and here they are, the fish market. most of them would have been college in the nursery habitats getting us to refund. the international union for conservation of nature classifies blue sharks as near threatened. for that reason, the numbers that can be caught and sold are subject to ever greater restrictions about the point in the whether the quote as will stabilize populations is to be to buy in on this 1st, before people even started studying these animals, we'd already designated almost all the large truck populations in the atlantic district. yeah. sure ics play

a vital role in our oceans. these apex predators suit at the top of the complex inter linked food chain. they keep the eco system balanced. also by eating c creatures that are sick or weak overfishing sharks, we'd take them out of what's called the food lab, upsetting the balance between predator and prey. in the long term, it would also endanger the very stocks on which the fishing industry depends. that's required to use the credit parts of the sharks and of course of the fins approaching it. and so the fins get cut off and shipped to asia and especially where they're used for shocks and soup high fish flossing, super. it's a traditional dish and that comes with a lot of promises about long life and not getting sick. s goals, the 1st place you must, yvonne along the beach card does management congress yet. mine is these days. so now lou stock shows up a lot in animal feed to this. i'm time seemingly. it gets mixed in tat,

approaching off to best on there are a lot of companies in vigo that sell shark meat and fins. we called and rode to several traders to ask for an interview. my name is ken ega. i am a journalist from germany, but nobody was available at short notice. in an online video, the company being camera shows how things are frozen and exported to asia by the sackful. the video shows how employees process the product in accordance with requirements. meticulously documenting each step, the v, you know, opens on it, and that's as much as we hear in europe should see it as a good thing. that all the people working in the supply chain, their funding seem to be complying with the laws based on what we've seen from the facilities was that's a, that's a really positive. and that's, this was, it shows that these women and men who are working to feed their families aren't doing anything illegal, you know, some units. and that's ms getting us cuz that's,

but the real conversation we need to have is about whether the laws are adequate. because that's the div um or the concert one person who doesn't think the law goes far enough. is neil's kruger, he's an h r manager and passionate driver who has lobby to get the issue onto the european commissions agenda. he 1st started looking into the european shark trade several years ago and was concerned by what he found the most the have to do you rich supply. and so most top the asian market that you were always complaining about. in fact, we have the one that supplying the shock fins and i just didn't get that to disclose it unto my company. my god, it's not a clue. guys. petition, stop spinning calls on your a to band sales of sharks fins. he thinks that at the sale of things was banned. trading and shocked meat would also lose its appeal. he presented the european commission with over a 1000000 signatures, as well as the fins of some dead sharks. he says brussels is now looking into the

potential affects other than on the finish. i have my doubts because we've seen what's happened with all the years. citizens initiatives, there was one cold ends at the cage gauge is against the factory. farming faced the europe and commission promised to end the practice in e u, and even made legally binding promises. but it's disappeared from the commission's implementation agenda. comments on the partial for the residents, a v go fishing is a key source of income. we come to a cafe by the harbor to talk to some of the people who work on the fishing boats. journalists are viewed with suspicion around here. so we start by introducing ourselves with out our cameras, running to fishermen agreed to an interview. sharif and cna are from sierra leone and set a goal, respectively. they show us photos of their work. that sort

fish and that one's blue shock. yeah. so just to go just double click the wedding side and found out the highest speed, but the difficult shot more than $200.00 or 500 feet and does a colleagues got hurt because of soc is very high, very, very, very high. 24 hours working low stuff. sometimes some people die on accident. maybe the cable cuts hits you anybody if you want to, but to see a lot to respect this event,

despite the dangers, shareef is happy to have found work in spain. it allows him to help support his family of see want because the only thing we got the money to be honest, right? that's the money. but finally, the company i've been is and both as they call it pretty much it's a very nice company. maybe sometimes you get some 3000 the most as well. ship to give you 2500. so ship to give you 4000 and the fisherman very, very well. 5 30 am the next day. marine biologist lucas miller. hayes and other under cover visit to the fish market to gather more information. today he finds 5 tons of shark meat on display. willow wants to see with his own eyes, exactly how the meat is sold and at what price the

key begins to mingle with the traders. the auctioneer goes from pallet to pallet with a megaphone surrounded by prospective buyers. he counts down from higher to lower prices until one of the dealers snaps up the goods. the complete shark is sold for 2 year owes $88.00 per kilo. in recent years, the average export price for a kilowatt shark fin has been 16 year rose within 5 times as much the ruler has seen enough to draw some conclusions. this to me is a lights says it's really sad to see the intelligent predators sold for such a little money escaped finding a stock. some states in the us like florida has completely outlaw the trade in

sharks, insightful, some complex stuff. tom does that. so this would be your opinion as one of the major sent exporters that still haven't taken that step. also for an export to be done, you're gonna splitting on this. you can most of our next stop is an open house. and in western germany, we've come to the large scale planet ocean exhibition to meet activist claimant o'clock. she spent years diving with the world's largest sharks, as well as working to protect the animals. she founded the environmental organization a last motion. among her concerns is the global trade in shark fins. she's even provided the exhibition with some fins that turned up in germany kicking cycle in 2018. we were told that 3000 kilos of fins had arrived at frankfurt airport on their way from mexico to hong kong, next of that 400 kilos warrant identifiable,

and seem to come from protected species. the activist suspects that the sharks or send a process with a fence or cut off live sharks, etc. the mutilated animals are then thrown back into the water and left to die in the you, this cruel practice is banned. crews have to bring the whole animal ashore even so the shark fin trade remains lucrative in europe. the hyper specimens, invest clarkson's, or the gold of the sea of fish and the fishing crews in the you get $10.00 to $12.00 zeros for kilo wilson, in the wholesale exports to asia are already around 500 to 700 euros of kilo in quite the time. the product reaches consumers in asia, the price is between $1.00 and $1.00 and a half 1000. a small bowl of 100 grams of shirts and my cost $150.00 euros on that's, that's a profit margin that's almost comparable to the drug trade. it's important 100 plus

foot lice, size, imports, and exports account for 22 percent of the global shark me trade. the world's largest ex border is spain which supplies countries including portugal, brazil, italy, and germany, where the smoked meat of this spiny dogfish speak east is a delicacy. shark fins are mostly exported to asia, especially to china. other big players include japan, britain, and panama. in total, the global trade and meet and fins is worth around $500000000.00 euros per year. we show sort of like a claim of old hawk our footage from the go. several years ago, she also conducted an undercover investigation at the fish market. that has called the thoughts about 5 o'clock in the morning since we had fun. it's unbelievable.

none of these animals are sexually mature yet. this is absolutely not sustainable. the next generation of the blue sharks is be destroyed again, not soon by the blow on. the activists is also alarmed by the methods used on european long line fishing boats. she shows us a video sent to her anonymously. the fisherman who filmed it was probably as shocked as she was by the brutality, the successful use. you can see here that the shark is still alive. the fishermen are bringing the shock in 20 for she has an eye on loki standing with his foot on the short cut, the 4th. he takes the knife and the symbol of that and while it still alive his t. that's a living animal that the fits not dead. this is how all these animals die. me.

the video from 2016 shows what the fishermen in the harbor cafe were handing out. the shorts were cut open lengthwise and gutted many of them fight for their lives. and it's all done in compliance with e. you regulations these appeals and these animals are absolutely defense. let see how about they can scream, but they have the nervous system just like humans a lot. so the shark is in terrible pain. right now. the service isn't an exception . what's the best? it's the norm. we've made contact with an industry insider in spain, a manager at a company that sells sharpening. and since she's willing to talk to us but wants to remain anonymous, given the highly controversial subject, you cut the very open and just the like, the sort is still like trying to like 3 bucks. that would be like one cards at the back of the head, which would make him dead. but the fishes on the european visits didn't do that.

their lives, sharks and the fishermen have arms. think about it. we tried to do it in the best possible way. but we have to think about the safety of the workers. we're not brutal. when we fish, we have to take care of ourselves above the tip and if the stuff in it contained would be successful and that would be a trade been defense or part of the business. if we touch sharks, are we supposed to just throw them away? that wouldn't be economical. it's not as if we can stop sharks from biting when we cast long lines. they're still going to come and get caught. we're the 1st people to be thinking about sustainability. several times the industry insiders stress is the number of people in the go who are dependent on fishing. you have to understand the fisherman to a really honorable job. their main goal isn't to kill animals, it's to create a livelihood for themselves. there's

a difference. we've come to brussels, where the european commission is looking into a potential trade band. it's a process that will take months if not years. we're here to need a bad yonce spokesman for maritime affairs. so there are countries like canada or the u. k. um, who have already like shots shocks and traits bins. why does it take like a companion like the stuff and then you can pay and to start talking about this topic, if we haven't started talking about this topic and you know, but when it comes to trades measures, it's always something that's complicated for you to, to work on every environmental measures that affects trades creates issues in terms of how, how this affects all of the trades relations. some people we talked to

a know expecting like starting tactics or something like that topic would be like the open, but it won't come to an end. if the 2nd i'm sound of fear of what you're thinking about said, our policy making is generally quite robust and based in the data and the evidence for the also it is slow because we need a lot of people to agree on every piece of legislation that we make the new european commission that will be form if after the elections and the new european parliament will have their own uh, their own minds depending on what citizens thoughtful that makes it all. the more important to create a scientific basis for the decision making process. we returned to spain to ben meal in the northern basque region. the coastal town is lou customer with us research base. from here, he and his team go out to see to study short populations comes to the 9. anyway, you can start loading the diving gear board part. the data collected by the team

will be made available to international organizations. it can also be used to set cash corners until now, quality data has been locking me for by doing this could be different trying to sign a light on the distribution of the blue shark and the may co shark doesn't get results . will be important. as we tried to fill in gaps and the data to, to hopefully ensure more sustainable population managements of people for that. so now i think every minute village suspects that the coast along the bay of bist k as a nursery habitat for blue sharks. the more conclusively, he can prove this, the more likely it is that authorities will establish protected areas for them. the team have underwater camera rigs, thanks to donations and a bit of the i, why is that number 5? so this is a mobile camera tramping money rather than to gather himself on the divides something bar assembling. it now made us to make sure we can document the sharks that's giving them. i don't know if i'm allowed to say this,

but this is an old traffic sign which i found on the side of the road. for not loading up the team, heads half an hour out to see they look for a good spot and then lower the camera trump into the water guys. now this is a good place. lots is the gps track are on many district thanks to the gps transmitter . they can locate the cam later and come back to collect it by itself and hopefully see you soon. the come up, a trap will not float in the water for 5 or 6 hours. it's at a depth of about 10 meters. so as the camera records, the sharks are attracted by fish scraps and a bait back. even the shyest of them will be caught on video. this gives the team

a more accurate idea of how many animals are in the area. later, new customer that wants to lower a short in person. yeah, any of these codes will come then in. i tried to catch the animals and photograph of that box to go to document their size and their sex does. and if we're lucky, we can also put a satellite transmitter on them. it's up to you is that enough to see him? the team repeatedly poor fish stock into the sea. they also lower the predators with bait. when a shock appears, they have to act quickly the, the researchers bring the chart close to the boat and hold it while they take its measurements. make sure that they attach a gps transmitter to the doors locked in a place where it won't cost the animal pain. then they allow the chart to swing

back down into the sea where it will give them valuable data about things like migration routes and life span. every time that we go out, we need to take all the data that we think is going to be useful for our study. we take the place 10 but to if we find sha, so we try to estimate the size. if we are able to see the 6 on, if they have a stock or if we have from them before months, it's then time to take the camera trump out of the water. i don't remember when we get home, we'll see if we filmed any sharks on the way back to port an encounter with a pint of dolphins underlines the wonders of the ocean that mina and his team are trying to concern. the

villa is disappointed. the camera didn't capture any sharks, but 2 days later, there's this precious shot of a blue shark pump. it's more evidence that the coast is a nursery habitat that needs to be protected. the scientists and we only provide neutral data because we just tried to provide the facts which then become a basis for political decisions and about pollution. chatham, the political decisions and exactly batch defense items. and they take into account economic interests, cultural interests, and also the livelihoods of the people who work in the fishing industry and depend on it. that's why i hope that we, as a society will find a solution that offers the future for both animals and people. perspective with us . the marine biologist will continue to fight against the negative image that sharks have. he wants to protect the animals before it's too late.

the high for looking at the shocks and trade, it makes you a motional and the 12th because the next day i can go out and swim with these animals. i can take a breath and then dive and be completely weightless, substituted gliding alongside them. awesome. so the, there are moments when we're just co existing and again, when this intelligent animal is looking at me from 20 centimeters away from swimming with me and paying me respect, the kind of respect the wish humans don't really reciprocate. sized on someone's back can be heartbreaking. but what can we do as a civic was all we can do is keep fighting and do our jobs ones and so allied some, some deadlines also. so yeah. then we can hope that at some point we as people will have that love and that respect inside us inclusive. so, so it will begin to recognize the value of co existing with these animals sorts of sense of all the,

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