tv Documentary RT January 11, 2014 8:29pm-9:01pm EST
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when it has to do with illegal immigration. mediately send frontex to us. they control us in our waters as if a new colonization were taking place there experiencing a military occupation of the oceans when they want to combat drugs in america or asia they find the means to do it and. if they really want to combat illegal fishing they have the means to do read they have the airplanes to photograph but they have the patrols to stop them from fishing in our seas. because they are shrinking our country and what is more serious. they are destroying our fishing resources and marine wealth.
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regulation. which is slowly acquiring a global day bench and a worldwide effect has been implemented only for a year now regulation seeks the source of the profit if we manage to put a stop to profit making the legal fishing will stop and the only way to do that is to seize all. imports to europe. also has deposits in marine life deposits in january imported to europe must be this certificate credible to certify people that they are not the product of illegal fishing and that they have been caught according to the regulations. if the. voting illegal fishing certificate is good.
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official legally have networks that bypass all of this. allow them to sell in the european asian and north american market fish that has been caught illegally in the consumer from north america or asia or europe will not distinguish in the market stalls. knows the fish is good but if it is been fished illegally or not that does not concern the consumer but of course this is not easy and the european union is doing all it again but don't forget that this is just another player on the global chess board and let's not forget there is great resistance and huge interests right now in our effort to form a new policy which will respect all that you mention the sustainability of the sea is met by a lot of opposition. these are all words. at the same time the ships are in the ocean every day today we are trying to establish
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an economy of subsistence. states of west africa from guinea bissau descent. so if we are in such a state of poverty they have been flooded by drug dealers going to ship is arrested here not by chance but. it is carrying two tons of cocaine one or two killer. so that means the drug smugglers come to the states because they are in misery air we are governed by puppet presidents who do not care for the development of society or for education nor health of the armed forces they care about nothing when we build a statue worth thirty five billion we can't be saying we can't afford to buy two ships to patrol the seas when the organization of the islamic summit has cost high . hundreds of billions we cannot say we do not have the means we could say we
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long run come out of the arab. world i've got to go to all the. other. conditions typically on these vessels that engage in you fishing our. or her bendis there's there's there's no way to describe the how horrible and how completely unacceptable the conditions are on board of these vessels sometimes the crew have not been off the ship for for for months even years at a time the ships were only being supplied every couple of months in terms of being given food and water etc there's no medical care on board the ships the ships look like a ghost ships of rest but kids. that if any europe. were to see. how
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the fish is now ended on what type of conditions the fish landed with the same platform where fish will be landed will be the platform where the fishing will actually. defra where you're in a tour that. it's it's her endless. workers from senegal been in. togo all nationalities. the working conditions on the ships. that senegalese fishermen. twenty four hours nonstop. because the queue by the teams works for twelve hours or more then the other for twelve hours. there are days when their feet swell up inside their boots. and you need a knife to take them off people probably could cope with all of this but some fall
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asleep on the working table. and that causes labor accidents. you saw like a dog. and they are abnormal conditions. we stay for three months and then we go out to shore are you well paid no we are not. you know when africa we suffer. we do not get paid well and there are also some restrictions you're not well here but there's nothing we can do this is how we live you know there is poverty in africa to find a job. they offer you a two hundred dollars salary. to help your family.
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it's not good but we can live with that we'll be able to make. our beloved there is nothing but misery here and of misery. here there was. no. no no here. that ensued you can my husband is at sea. when we see biologists he used to be a fisherman to him but he could not make an in many more than a month so he left to become a sailor my dear because fishing is not stable in st louis so he went to the ship's . road but i'm out of this side of. the fighting brother when he returns. florida deaths first everything has born in
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order to feed the family here to play with and so the minute runs out to get they're going to have. a good war. and i have two boys and a girl but i have also lost two girls related to the little guy you know don't tell me what did your children die from last night you got. this is what they were ill. or did you have money to buy their medicine. why. it was expensive for us. one costs fifteen euros and other twenty two euros there were going to be you can do more than us we're both out with you know going to different.
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c.m. by changing their mandate from prosecuting the law oh offenders are the most important thing now 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 prison policy written by corrections corps of america so the f.b.i. serves those corporate masters now they can break any law they want so they can serve their masters under the rubric of national security which is a pretty good job. it was a. very hard to take a. chance again there was
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focused on means that the place here for the for the last. couple of position mr blair will try we are aware of the problem with truly are of course the other courts with the same repeat they shouldn't be said to favor the disembarkation and clearing through customs of illegal fishing projects in there has been complaints and we're trying to work together with the corresponding countries but with minister however as far as the european union countries are concerned we are responsible and all they can say is that we intend to use force controls and we really must look into these issues.
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her. at the center was from soon ago or soon as the fish is caught in a bit on the one hand it is caught immediately and on the other it gets here within twelve hours packed in styrofoam with a proper airy set nine to twelve degrees celsius and it gets here right away within twelve hours. who yes of course they buy it it's also cheaper there's not a lot of difference from domestic fish. it's not just the michael should sink if you do that when they eat fish that comes
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from each illegal fishing they eat the life of a fisherman. if they can see him as think of that and realize the cost of the money follows. they'll see that them money does not benefit the fisherman. now or the fishing communities. they are foreign companies and very often chinese or spanish if they are the two
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states that operate like that in west africa and they found a key to the company which is supposedly senegalese they arrive with fifteen big industrial scale fishing vessels that supposedly being low into the company and so they fish freely. how do they escape the controls. when the ship comes to dhaka. but he seeks a senegalese patna senegalese power becomes the fictitious president. did their big boom in order to deal with the public opinion and the regulation of. the best of stamps and everything but it won't fit. however if it's the europeans who
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exploit the business. when the product arrives the european is here he checks it loads in the containers and sends it off. he sells it in his cities because find this product here. and the fish is exported to europe. where you can see the container us what it might all fish go. to europe the white man is here and controls everything all the loads the monthly containers and sends them off to europe.
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so by having a flag sometimes as far removed as mongolia when you are on your ship you are basically exempt from a lot of fishing rules because mongolia hasn't ratified certain treaties or as and is not member of certain fisheries management organizations so this way you avoid many rules and regulations to it's a clear new poll that needs to be addressed by the international community. to see the fishermen live day by day and what they earn isn't enough for them to
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make a living anymore and. that is why there are waves of migration towards spain with me get us all the list but. oh well before when fishing when good and it said the people. had no need to leave for europe over they had opportunities possibilities and they were not interested in migrating. to. europe is the one that organizes the flight of africans through europe organizes illegal migration to the e.u. had helped us out in combating illegal fishing all the young fisherman who are abandoning africa instead of going to europe would fish here for there would be a fish and they would make a profit. they would be able to feed their families but when they have nothing to eat when they lack protein when they have no money they will go where they can find
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to go to europe america canada. so if the e.u. wants our fish it should except our children and it's country so it can't be that it takes our fish are causing misery and then tells our children to stay in their country the main public health issue in the e.u. is obesity. in our countries the main public health issue is famine so this injustice is not sustainable either we live together in a fair and it gala tarion world or we share a world of terror because you would if i click on tell you how many are in the oceans the sea bottom is full of to rogues with the dead bodies of our children young people who left in search of adventure. when i was a child i would come to see because i loved it
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a credit boom more for you because the son of a fisherman is proud to go out to see. his dream is to become a captain one day after that would have me. but i had no money to support my parents so i decided to take the perogue and emigrate. i didn't care about the danger or if i would live or die my dream was europe. so that i could help my parents out. with you given every i took eighty seven people with me. who was on what we called one or more captain to help with the embarkation don't want but he was unlucky on the you know a wave over turned his ship. and nine people died in the sea of bora. never
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to million so he tried to save them. with the sea was cold and they all died to give him got them but if we left without them. we said we're now all heading to spain you know what would be all one family with the same dream brothers and sisters mr perot gets there we will be saved if it sinks we will all die even those who know the sea well we must show solidarity of water starts getting into the pirogue we all take it out immediately we don't wait for the fisherman. legs to be a god given day after two days at sea and someone fell ill never know what i left in the water and then he wouldn't eat or drink he was vomiting we were different we forced him to eat and drink but he kept on vomiting we don't know what. throughout he died on the third day of the journey that he would get we through his body to
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see because he started to decompose. never operated when we when we threw his body into the sea. and we all prayed to god that he would go to heaven i mean you have got to know many were crying and saying we are all going to die. when there was an image on the fourth day big waves broke the barrel of the. big guy it was from mobile go get good. that moment everyone was out of control while good no matter how many because those people who had more experience know how dangerous it is. a middle going to get out will have the god it was about but on the lookout i'm think i'm evidence more of one of the eldest of a soul a very experienced fisherman he told us not to fear about the pira advised us to take a rope. and use it to tie the broken pieces. to the political committee were committed
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millions around the globe struggle with hunger each journey. what if someone offers a life time food supply no charge only and they carry said they can the very strong position against g.m.o. and we think that. the genetically modified products are free to prove that there is no. evidence to this any. what you make. is free cheese. is profit. for this golden rice.
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