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i'm on my own would come to a must feed my children i'm obliged have no other way to make a living only fishing. i can't stay at home. at the moment i don't have the means i would have all the strength to work alone. that's why they come along and help me. take care of the net and work the engine. that's why i'm forced to bring them to the pirogue when we're going to. look at their age they should be studying and not working but we have no other income. he has three more brothers at home and i have to feed them.
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in the past grandfathers would catch fish near the shore and. yet now the fish are far from shore more than we can't catch them. one that is just. another. one of the. poor. we depend on our fishing nets to live. on they want. a man who could who they have rigged ships. we want to run while. we can't stand up to the king they destroy everything and there's nothing we can do
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q when they enter territorial waters they fish because they load this fish on to the ships and leave for china eight shows spain in europe. here's a bottom troll which destroys the ecosystem. they only choose the noble fish for which they have orders and they throw the rest back into the sea dead on that man. they throw away tons of dead fish all the time.
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don't so they kill the resources in that city even though there are not accessible to small fisherman to get a loot the sea bottom and destroy the oceans don't. see exhibit good reason is that the. where you once saw a life now complete where you once saw the gorgons this beautiful marine plant. no you see only garbage. the statistics the facts and figures they all. speak for themselves if we do not act today to combat are you fishing and we will have no fish some of the estimates
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are that you know within fifty to one hundred years our season will be devoid of commercial fish stocks so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. of all before we would see very big fish thirty kilo groupers. him on huge guard fish versus sharks we would see many big fish. on today if we see a group of this size we're surprised people for the fish are getting smaller and smaller and we have reached the point where they don't even have the time to reproduce. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth to meet their own demand for fish so they have destroyed their own fish stocks and now they are increasingly fishing in west africa and taking the fish out of the mouths of
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people that depend on the most here in west africa. very very we cannot say that the year was a saint would leave their other way and we didn't important for addicts of illegal says she i mean we estimate that until two thousand and ten it will not be drugs in at least sixteen percent of please you imports came from illegal fishing. so in one way or the other i wouldn't say with favorite illegal fishing but let's say we elaborated to some of the better according to our own data and to u.n. data it was illegal fishing was officially the second producer of fish stocks globally that was the second producer do you understand purpose to grow and we're told. in an industry of approximately ten billion there year betty ford pick the
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sick up to maybe give up the. good it's a day that illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths. maybe dead with a billion dollars is a lot of meat is five hundred billion francs if we could channel five hundred billion each year to one of our small states iraq. mauritania senegal guinea bissau gambia that would allow those states to develop very quickly.
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the kind of fishes and only sardines. befall we wouldn't eat these danes need on. we used them as bait for fishing. looking out what i can about what we would it group has a red mullet tigress and so on they're going yeah well the saudi and has become. maybe god will provide another way of living. but fishing is no longer profitable. for when i would go fishing. i'd catch a fish to ten group us. i made
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a profit and had no troubles. but now he was i get a headache. and i need some aspirin which costs a hundred francs. it's not going to. ask for help will borrow the money. for me when the ships are here we're going to everyone in the business has problems but as you say molest us when we share the same area in the sea and they destroy our nets.
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