tv Documentary RT January 11, 2014 7:29pm-8:01pm EST
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went. down with got to where i come from i'm the only man of fifty seven still working he cries gunmen because i have no link to stay home and i have small kids all my. knees are gone i'm on my own would be in the i must feed my children i'm away have no other way to make a living only fishing you know i can't stay at home. the money when i don't have the means i want more the strength to work. alone. that's
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why they come along and help me. take care of the nets and the engine. that's why i'm forced to bring them to the pirogue then we're going to. look at their age they should be studying and not working but we have no other income. because he has three more brothers at home and i have to feed them. in the past grandfathers would catch fish near the shore. to get it now the fish are far from shore and we can't catch them he would. want to.
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pole or. we depend on our fishing nets to live. underwater. cranio a man who could move a have rigged ships. we want to move. or we can't stand up to the king they destroy everything and there's nothing we can do moms that it doesn't work. many people read fish. and don't know where it comes from industry or what it is if
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and leave for china ages spain in europe. and here is a bottom trawl which destroys the ecosystem. going to but 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. don't so they kill the resources. that are not accessible to small fishermen. get a loot the sea bottom and destroy the oceans no good could but see did we lose those young.
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where you once saw life 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 are that you know within fifty to one hundred years our sees will be devoid of commercial fish stocks so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. before we would see very big fish thirty kilo groupers. him on huge guard fish versus sharks we would see many big fish. come towards a day if we see
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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 people that depend on the most here in west africa. a very very way cannot say that the year was a saint of the other way and we didn't important for addicts of illegal fishing we estimate that until two thousand and ten it would not be drugs in at least sixteen percent of these you imports came from illegal fishing. so in one way or the
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other i wouldn't say with favorite illegal fishing but let's say we elaborated 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 to producer do you understand of the grand we're told . in an industry of approximately ten billion if you were there here you pick the secret to maybe if. it's a day that illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths. maybe
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since what you're arguing for is that the kurds should put that ethnic identity and that national identity let me ask you a personal question i have a current first or an iraq a first i am a kurd first then i'm a rocky i am not iraqi that i am a kurds because let me ask you that question i am from holland i have been bombarded you know i still remember the smell of the chemical weapons so what iraqi identity brought to. he. brought to me the killings of people mass graves four thousand five hundred villages were destroyed. we speak your language. news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news a little tonnage of angles stories. for you here.
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to try the spanish find out more visit. what they're trying to do now is still another myth to us which is that one group of slightly less radical fundamentalists are now attacking the i.s.i. yes and taking care of them who is the major supporter of these groups i mean they have to get money and arms and training from somewhere and the country that's been named so far in this program is saudi arabia what is their role in all this i think it's a little bit. misinterpretation of reality i don't see flies the fact that saudi arabia for its own reasons with american backing but with always this is supposed being a certain. position because this. is
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preferring now to try to. rise ok of the future when those groups when. it's quite clear. fish to find compared to the pasta. many types of fish have disappeared. then when the new. groom bend for the past six to eight years we can't find them here anymore. and. the kind of fish is there now only saw dean's. befall we wouldn't eat these deans we don't want. them if we used them as bait
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for fishing. club nicko want to get out of one of 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 alone. i'd catch an a bass to ten group us. i made a profit and had no troubles. but now he was i get a headache. you know and i need some aspirin which costs
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a hundred francs. that's not going to i will ask for help will borrow the money. i mean when the ships are here you know everyone in the business us problems as well as news they molest us when we share the same area in the sea and they destroy our nets. you know how many boxes of fish if you call four boxes of fifty kilos each really nothing how much would you sell them for
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a couple of no one wants fourteen thousand francs about twenty one euro's for each box. and wolf it's barely enough for the fuel it's not a. good . day no no limits. they do whatever they want at sea we see the fish there. but we can't catch them because of the foreign ships. the people say the percent of our needs and animal protein is provided by fish with the ball the day the fish disappear. you could deliver food safety of the senegalese will be endangered if. the peanut boats and
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fishing up you know have always been at the heart of the life of the town's inhabitants. you see here we are born among fishermen they become fisherman who do we do this year our whole lives revolve around fishing but. even babies from the cradle their first choice is a boat you can go. a lot of the age of four to five they have a boat and go swimming or fill up with the deputy. nine or ten they go out to see. all our lives from the cradle to the grave we fish.
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on the graves you will see fishing nets pieces of wood from boats which shows that fishing is a cultural thing they could do it if you knew it when they take away the boats and the fishing from us they take away our lives only about. her. is why he did not put money in the bank for the future. to be competitive. as we live day by day we spend whatever money we have been for one hundred to solve our problems.
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one to me good when you when i come back from fishing you might give away the first piece. there's employment in my list second one is for my family and the rest is for selling. only. one. at. but you may not have a single koinonia if you come to the sure with nothing but your basket you would know men to be when the boats arrive they'll give you fish all to go to waffle but if you look within it's a social tax if you're an old fisherman and can't go out fishing anymore it must be since there is no organized social security well you can but they will always give you fish for you to sell this is for that is your pension. and if.
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you knew you were told a new ticket landis's should arrive the merchant by eat and the women like the rest of the fish which would otherwise be thrown back into the seat they preserve it so that the people would be able to eat decision of some day the fisherman can go out to the sea also give to other areas and that is very important to end there is no safe. place over the.
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think monitoring fishing by sight the last couple of days in a way to sound bites fishing a legally all that and thing of recent it was fishing illegally in the past now we have fisheries inspectors own board from guinea and will continue to patrol the area and race to any fights but of course the fishing illegally.
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if you. want to give yourself a little. bit about what you know. you would try to make. some of them what you could you know no. not. just saying no he's not on the list. tell him. it's very good for him now to know what to do whatever we want us not if not. buck who come to this he will go. you know a sheep we've got we've got to i'm just you can throw out. the race to see it out the lies. they never expected until it's
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abandons been told that's for sure because they know that you know so they don't have the means to come to. one state which is found and arrested dozens of them doing exactly the same never get. and get used to that you know how to get sometimes i can see foreign ships here it doesn't add up but there's nothing i can do apart from reporting them to dhaka.
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play. that if we call decca about what the ship would have left before they have time to arrive numbered. the some even when we had a small ship here that they had time to escape so you really couldn't plan and that means they have watchman here in a command and decca. who is on what we do now is not important important small. in peace we are unable to fight those ships and three people to see to glow but
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they are a big ships armed ships faster than our patrol says when put to you because of fear i've been on was that we had made an appeal to our friends our friends will move but they won't move down couldn't rule as long as we don't have to ask the trolls are as well armed as those ships there's nothing we can do against illegal fishing . we have even caught european and american friends. but until now there is absolutely nothing they only say they are informed and that they are sorry but until now none of these states have provided ships in order to pursue those pirate ships.
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to notice. the faces change. the picture of today's you know. from around the globe. fifty. by changing their mandate from prosecuting a law. saying no forcing a lot to enforcing national security quote unquote it just means that they give them the right to break the law for corporations security agendas written by corporations in the energy policy written by energy companies the agricultural policy written by monsanto have this surveillance policy and present policy written by corrections core of america so the f.b.i. serves those corporate masters now they can break any law they want so they can
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only. they wanted to move a detention camp marks its twelfth anniversary with more than one hundred fifty inmates still behind bars despite never being charged they want to display a place that we can treat people how every we want to whenever we want to take a look at the history of the facility as people across the u.s. and other parts of the world join protests demanding the closure of the camp. despite recent diplomatic success in iran nuclear talks a growing number of u.s. senators are pushing for more sanctions against iran move the white house warns could drag the u.s. into another war. and a former israeli prime minister ariel sharon dies in eighty five after spending eight years in a coma we look back at the legacy of the controversial political and military leader.
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