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a living only fishing. i can't stay at home. the money when 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 nets and work 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. he has three more brothers at home and i have to feed them.
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going to mcdonald's in the past grandfathers would catch fish near the shore and. get it now the fish are far from shore more band we can't catch them he would. value a pole or. we depended on fishing nets to live. underwater . cranio a man who could move a have big ships. we want to move up or can't stand up to the king they destroy everything and there's nothing we can do moms that it
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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 asia spain in europe. here's a bottom trawl which destroys the ecosystem. the silex 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.
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don't so they kill the resources in that city even though there are not accessible to small fishermen they. get a loot the sea bottom and destroy the oceans. but seek cebu good to be. where you once saw life complete where you once so. the gorgons this beautiful marine plant. you know you see only garbage. this 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
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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. come 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 people that depend on the most here in west africa.
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cannot say that the year was a saint would leave you look there are other way and we didn't important product of illegal fishing we estimate that until two thousand and ten drugs in at least sixteen percent of we 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 deliberate. according to our own data and two un data illegal fishing was officially the second producer of fish stocks globally it was the second to producer do you understand and we're talking of an industry that is approximately ten billion. deck of the sokoto maybe if.
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it's a day that illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths. maybe douglas not billion dollars is a lot just five hundred billion francs if we could channel five hundred billion each year to one of our small states. mauritania synagog guinea bissau gambia that would allow those states to develop very quickly.
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and what you're arguing for is that courage should put that ethnic identity and that national identity let me ask you a personal question. a current forest or an iraq at first i am a kurd first then i'm iraqi i am not iraqi that i am a kurds because let me ask you that question i'm from holland i have been bombarded you know i still remember the smell of the chemical weapons so what iraqi identity people to eat iraq into brought to me the killing soft people mass graves four thousand five. hundred villages were destroyed. dramas that could be ignored. stories others who refuse to know. the faces changing the world writes no.
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picture of the taste. from around the globe. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think. it's because one fall attention and the mainstream media work side by side the joke is actually on here. coming up. at our teen years we have a different approach would look up because the news of the world just is not this
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funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. you guys talk to the jokes will handle them except that i've got to. even if you want to make you can fish are hard to find compared to the pasta. as many types of fish have disappeared on this. bench for the past six to eight years we can't find them here anymore. the kind of fish is there now only sardines. the
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i will befall we wouldn't eat these danes. if we used them as bait for fishing. close look at one of about one of them what we would it group has a red mullet tigress and so on. 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 a fish to ten group us. i made a profit and had no troubles. but
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now he was i get a headache. and i need some aspirin which costs a hundred francs. i will ask for help will borrow the money. but when the ships are here we're going to everyone in the business has problems as well as news they molest us when we share the same area in the sea and they destroy our notes.
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how many boxes of fish if you call four boxes of fifty kilos each of them and not thinking how much would you sell them for. fourteen thousand francs about twenty one euro's for each box. i would find it's barely enough for the fuel it's not a. good . day no no limits. they do whatever they want to see we see the fish there. but we can't catch them because of the foreign ships. with both eighty percent of our needs and animal protein is provided by fish. the day the fish disappear. could deliver food safety of the senegalese will be
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endangered if. the peanut boats and fishing up you'd have always been at the heart of the life of the town's inhabitants but could you see here we are born among fishermen and become fisherman who do we need 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 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 to live that. her. as one who 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. one of. we realize. that you. cannot but you may not have a single koinonia if you come to the sure with nothing but your basket you will know men the ability to win the votes arrive they'll give you fish all to go to waffle but that little shits 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
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you fish for you to sell and this is the one that is your pension. and if. you need to move toward a new ticket landis's should arrive the merchant and the women sleep 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't go out to the sea also give to other areas and that is very important to end there is no fish. in a little over the. with
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monitoring fishing boats over the last couple of days and the readings they found by fishing a legal aid all of it of being a wristed for fishing and they can see in the past now we have fisheries inspectors on board from guinea and will continue to patrol the area and race to any fights but of course fishing illegally.
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if you. want to know yourself a little bit. about. how. you want to. save some of them what you could you know not only do not. know he's not on the news. it's very good for him to want to do whatever we want us not if not. come to the people. who took him you know i got we've got to i'm just looking for all of. the rat race to see it out the lies
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she. would never expect to be told civilians been told that's for sure because they know that you know so if you don't have the means to them that's. one step which is found and arrested dozens. they're doing exactly the same never again. 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 if.
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they. are a lot of good at it if we call decca. but the ship would have left before they have time to arrive numbered. the same even when we had a small ship here that if they had time to escape so you really couldn't open it i means they have watchman here you know and in deca. too confusing what we do now is not important importance will be.
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in peace we are unable to fight the ships going through the book to see to glow but they are a big ships arms ships faster than our patrols would put to you and several feet up it and was then we have made an appeal to our friends our friends will move. they won't move as long as we don't have past patrols 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 for they only say they are informed and that they are sorry but until now none of these states have provided ships with you in order to
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pursue those pirate ships. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. against g.m.o. and we think that's. pretty cool tool there is no. evidence for this any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in a mouse trap i don't believe that. the free. enterprise is profit. these golden rice.
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