before sunrise on the western cape tino brant jeffs and his crew take to the water and with the help of this bait they're hoping to attract a regional delicacy and it doesn't take long until they get their 1st catch. normally this lobster would almost certainly have been destined for a plate in china but the chinese stopped all imports in late january because of coronavirus taking a huge chunk out of tinos earnings you're. going to premier in. a minute power. that is not included they were going to children through all this because of the of the virus in china virus and joe you know. the problem goes well beyond tino and his crew china represented 90 percent of south africa's loves to market the loss of those lucrative exports mean the fish is making much less money mainly because of stuff people there then got jobs back to work is that working said it's become very shoes. to use this little. bit if you will be able to survive if this continues much not. the south african government has extended the season to catching the lobster the aims to give fish is more time to make up their lo