w. w. f says tomatti over fishing, an illegal fission of valuable fish stalks is to blame for the destruction of many marin echo systems. with the help of digital technology, a project on south africa's cape wants to end the suffering of local fishermen there. 5 30 in the morning at the port of cape town, while most of the city still sleeves skipper jeffrey fraser and his crew prepared to put out to see the 10 member crew are going, handling fishing for kate green. they're hoping for a good catch today. they did this with also the patience of whiskey. if you ever have a good skip but you can get loving there might be some truth in that, but it's a little fishy to lay all the blame on the skipper. conditions for art isn't all commercial fishing on the cape, have grown tougher over the years. possibly climate change over fishing of the basic change of current plenty reasons i can give you they also struggle with fishing quotas and market access. jeffrey fraser wants to improve conditions for his crew and has found the solution in the upper lobby app up a lobby, which means someone who fishes in a local language connect small sell fishes directly with consumers. daniel smith helped found the act and the n g o of the same name, which began as a university of cape town research project in 2017 karen from africa under on the world's small scale fishes have been excluded and struggle for access to market a below be came about recognizing that there was the need and there's an opportunity to then connect these small scale fishes digitally to markets and for them to be able to access and, and own their own data. in practice, this means jeffrey fraser and his crew consolidate. daily cats to restaurants, private directly through the upper lower be cutting out the middleman level of is quite good, but that we know what we going for and what we catch in, in the price is much greater than we get from the local buyers. so for us, it's a big deal room in the reggie shang says, middleman only pay fish is roughly a euro kilo fouquet. bring worth on of a low be the crew can next over 3 times faster. that means they can generate the same revenue with a smaller catch up a little b as finance, through donations and outside funding. the n t o. behind the app helps the fishes with infrastructure and logistics catches go by refrigerated truck to decentralized refridgerated storage facilities. short holes help reduce the carbon footprint of a little bit employee. hon goliath confirms the ways of the catch. he comes from a fishing family and wants to help his community. i'm sure, and i want to remain the future. so he respect or what part of fishing i do, i think for is the only time accepting the fishing in the city. what i will do is to just assist us with the process between after we get to the fish in the end consumer, which is a challenge for generations. and that's exactly what happens the catches from geoffrey phrases, boat and other absolutely, fishes go online and become available to customers on the apps market place. page chef neal swat is co owner of the restaurant in cape town. he is one of over 400 ships and 8000 private customers registered as buyers on upper luby. last night, the ship placed an order on the this morning hung alive, delivers it 5 killers of cape breed. the proof is in the pudding or the fish fish for that matter, like the, the quality of the fish we got is just something we haven't worked with before with the apps, q r code, the restaurant. and his guests can trace exactly where a fish comes from. the fishes name, the species, and where it was coped with jeffrey, i love knowing where the money is going. so i love knowing that the money is going to the fisherman and not some massive companies just amusing the sea. and the customers also enjoy hearing that the money they've been there by us goes directly to the fisherman. and we can see exactly how much like it since it's debut . applebee has put more than 500000 euros directly into the pockets of struggling fishes. similar projects are already up and running in other countries, all aimed at preserving fish stocks and ensuring local fish as get a living wage. arming ourselves against climate change and its consequences as well as gain in new knowledge to educate local populations and apply new ideas and methods. i hope visitation of the show convinced you how important karen for environment is for now. good. by for me personally, amps in lagos, nigeria, we hope you enjoyed a great mix of topics coming through from africa and europe. and of course we look forward to causing your company once again. next week. i am sandra, twin over your site, go from compiler. here in uganda ah, a, a, [000:00:00;00] a, a, a with who are driven by the merciless screen, others facing the destruction of engagement with it is going to be going on with the budget blend grabbers are exploiting the amazon rain forest. indigenous peoples are now bravely opposing them. the 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