the choices or is that still hasn't made a big impact on me. so that was so, you know, one of the, i can say a life changing the instances in my life for shot the today, many of the world shark species are in danger of extinction due to over fishing every year. 100000000 of the animals are killed for using cosmetics, animal feed. and this is like shark fin soup in europe. it's big business types are expensive. the goal of the c a marine biologist uses a hidden camera to uncover the truth behind the trade and 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 is home to one of your, of the largest fish markets. the premises is off limits to the public, but a 100 meters away. our team is fitting marine biologist lucas miller with a hidden camera. ready ready? the market halls are guarded by an array of fences surveillance cameras, port police, and security officials. all designed to keep an 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. vanya and, and paul, 2000 and the queen and portugal have the world's biggest shocks, which includes funding operating in the atlantic and other oceans, particularly this is one of the world, the biggest chart trade. how do i know that goes on? sucks that sort of is that we make contact with the local industry insider who

wants to remain anonymous. he scoping out the area to let lou customer not know what to watch out for. meanwhile, beulah and reporter, po, niga track which boats have entered the port that's entice you found these are 3 fishing boats that arrived yesterday and on by dean. but those 2 are what we call long liners when deed size. they catch tuna sort of finish on sharpener of ships. there's phones of hi site. so that means they could well adjust, unloaded sharks, high off 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 in a to, if we take these fish out of the ocean well enough to strong and tighten marie and have it times come to needing some point about this old sea on such stuff has been

to years researching sharks and their role in marine ecosystems. he dives with blue sharks, mico sharks, and tiger sharks, and various parts of the world without a cage to protect him. he studies their behavior and collect data on population and distribution higher, but sharks have been a lifelong passion for me under plus and obsession minded lives. at the same time, it's important to keep things in perspective and to be objective aspects. even the have to 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. and the lots of people here in be go, rely on for their livelihood, undergone signals to fund the mentions. young people live 30 minutes later, our informant is back with house one security. we only have a few hours before the goods are sold and taken away. the camera on?

yeah, i'm ready with sun. so you guys later the wants to find out how many sharks are. so here we were told that another td crew found no shock meat. when they filmed at the market, there was also no significant shock cash on sale during the 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. no has no trouble in passing through the entrance gate. then 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 to provide an awful 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 that people fits into into yeah, face and big ones too, or just juveniles just small ones. there are quotas in place for blue sharks caught in the atlantic limits of around $58000.00 tons per year. the european fisheries control a agency terrorism 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 traitor, then to avoid attracting attention. he leaves the market as a fair film, some juveniles, and saw that there were quite a lot of babies, sharks and strips on. so as i could tell, the numbers are quite high or to it's an unsettling site. and so i was about to then back at the hotel, the biologist and reporter watched the footage image shop. candice, it's shocking to see if it's little sharks that are basically just been born out. is less than a year old. yeah. and here they are, the fish market um, most of them would have been college in the nursery habitats, getting us to fund 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, whether the quote as will stabilize populations as debatable high in on the 1st, before people even started studying these animals, we'd already designated almost all the large truck populations in the atlantic studio, sharks play a vital role in our oceans. these apex predators suit at the top of the complex inter linked food chain. they keep the ecosystem balanced, also by eating c creatures that are sick or weak. overfishing sharks would 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 a short side of the course of the fins approaching it. and so the fins get cut off and shipped to asia and especially when they're used for shocks and soup high fish

flossing, super as 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 see to this on time, seemingly against mixed in to approaching off to best on there are a lot of companies in vigo that sell shark meat. and since we called and wrote 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 saxophone. the video shows how employees process the product in accordance with requirements, meticulously documenting each step,

the v. you know, funds on this 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, from your internet is getting us because that's, but the real conversation we need to have is about whether the laws are adequate to zip city or the concert. one person who doesn't think the law goes far enough is neil's cuba. he's an h r manager and passionate diver to his 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 supplies. so most top the asian market, we're always complaining, but in fact,

we're the ones supplying the shock fins. and i just didn't get that to disclose it under my coffee. my gosh, no clue guys. petition stop spinning calls on europe to ban sales of shark fins. he thinks that 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 effect of a band 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. the european commission promised to end the practice in e u, and even made legally binding promises. fathers disappeared from the commissions implementation agenda. comments on possible 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, and respectively they show us photos of their work that sort fish. and that one's blue shock. they'll just take out this little village where inside and found out the high speed that the difficult shot more than 200 or 500 feet and of a colleagues got hurt because i saw the seawall 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 look 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 house, right? the same money for a family. the company i mean is and most of the call is pretty much it's a very nice company. maybe sometimes you get some 3000 the most associated to give you 2500. so ship to give you 4000 and push them in very,

very 5 30 am the next day. marine biologist lucas miller pays another 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 traitors. 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 years, 88 per kilo. in recent years, the average export price for a kilo of shark fin has been 16 year rose. within 5 times as much

the ruler has seen enough to draw some conclusions. a list to miss a lights says it's really sad to see the intelligent predators sold for such a little money. escaped. finding a stop. some states in the us like florida to have completely outlaw the trade and sharks insightful, some complex stuff. tom does that. so this would be your opinion as one of the major spent exporters that still haven't taken that step also for an export to be done, you're gonna splitting on michigan. most of our next stop isn't over housing. in western germany, we've come to the large scale planet ocean exhibition to meet activists that easily get claim 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, since she's even provided the exhibition with some fins that turned up in germany. and so i talked 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 these sharks were sent 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 spell susan's desk saxons are the gold of the sea of fish and the fishing crews in the you get $10.00

to $12.00 zeros for a kilo of 10 in the wholesale exports to asia are already around 500 to 700 euro's a kilo and from quite the time the product reaches consumers in asia, the price is between one and one and a half 1000. a small boat, 100 grams of shocks, and my costs 150 euros on that's, that's a profit margin that's almost comparable to the drug trade. it's important. 100 hospitalized size, imports and exports account for 22 percent of the global shocked me. trade, the world's largest export or 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 soon as we could claim a oh park our footage from the go. several years ago, she also conducted an undercover investigation at the fish market. it does cloud the thoughts about 5 o'clock in the morning since would fine it's unbelievable. none of these animals are sexually mature yet say, this is absolutely not sustainable. the next generation of blue sharks is be destroyed again, not soon by the blow on. the activist 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 here's you can see

here that the shark is still alive. the fishermen are bringing the shock in 2015 in height on look. he's standing with his foot on the short cut, the force. 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 died. 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 with amazon and that's, that's the norm. we've made contact with an industry insider in spain,

a manager at a company that sells shark me. and since she's willing to talk to us but wants to remain anonymous, given the highly controversial subject, you kept the very open and just the like the soc is still like trying to like 3 bucks. that would be like one cards at the back of the head which, which would make him depths. but the fishes on the european visits didn't do that. their lives, sharks and the fishermen have arms. think about it. we try 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 contain 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 insider stress is the number of people in vigo who are dependent on fishing. you have to understand the fishermen do 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 meet. i know that dance spokesman for maritime affairs. so they are countries like canada, all the u. k. um, who have already like shots, sharks and traits bins. why does it take like a can pain like the stuff in it. you can pain to start talking about this topic if

we haven't started talking about this topic and you know, but when it comes to trade measures, it's always something that's complicated for you to, to work on. every environmental measure that affects trades creates issues in terms of how, how this effect of the trade 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 this like, and i'm astounded fear of what do you think about that? our policy making is generally quite robust and based in the data and the evidence . but also it's a 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 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 be on a 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 sharp populations comes then i didn't know that you can start loading the diving gear. both part the data collected by the team will be made available to international organizations. it can also be used to set catch corners until now, quality data has been locking me from guy to beat. we're trying to shine a light on the distribution of the blue shark and the make co shark doesn't go results will be important. as we tried to fill in gaps and the data to, to hopefully ensure more sustainable population managements as people for that. so now i think argumentative village suspects that the coast along the bay of this k is 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, because i'm a 5. so this is a mobile camera traveling many above it, it together himself on the device. it's says i'm bar. assembling it now. cool with us to make sure we can document the sharks. so just give 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 the the, the bottom loaded up, the team heads half an hour out to see they look for a good spot and then lower the camera trapped into the water guys. now this is a good place. lots is the gps track are on let me just for a couple of things to the gps transmitter. they can locate the camera later and

come back to collect it of the 5 by the show for the hopefully see you soon. the come out of the 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 that 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, lucas miller wants to lower a shark in person in any of these causal committee. and i tried to catch the animals and photographs that are subject to document their size and their sex does . and if we're lucky, we can also put a satellite transmitter on the subject. is that not puts you in 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 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 off in a place where it won't cause the animal pain. then they allow the chart to swim 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 8th other we think it's 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 not, if we have from them before a month, it's been time to take the camera tron out of the water.

when we get home, we'll see if we filmed any sharks on the way back to port an encounter with a part of dolphin's underlines the wonders of the ocean that mina and his team are trying to concern the lyla is disappointed. the camera didn't capture any sharks, but 2 days later, there's this precious shot of a blue shark pop. it's more evidence that the coast is a nursery habitat that needs to be protected. the scientists and we only provide neutral data. we just try to provide the facts which then become a basis for political decisions and of a point of defense item, the political decisions that exactly batch defense item. 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 because 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, absolutely gliding alongside them. awesome. so the, there are moments when we're just co existing to begin when this intelligent animal is looking at me from 20 centimeters away from swimming with me and paying me respect. the kind of respect that we humans don't really reciprocate. suffice and someone's back can be heartbreaking. but what can we do and said it was all we can

do with keep fighting and do our jobs ones until allied. some of them from deadlines also. so yeah. then we can hope that at some point we as people will have that love and that respect inside us is it will begin to recognize the value of co existing with these animals sports in the sense of all i'm sorry, the, the least specials, the mafia in germany,

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