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Life 8 - Looting the Seas
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With growing global appetite for sushi, bluefin tuna is big business--one fish can sell for up to a hundred thousand dollars. But scientists and environmentalists now argue that Atlantic bluefin-- the kind caught in the Mediterranean--is on the verge of collapse, and that the rules designed to protect them aren't working. At the heart of the dispute over bluefin tuna regulation is the European Union. Its member states include big fishing countries like France, Spain, and Italy. For the EU, the task is to prevent a final, and terminal, collapse of bluefin stocks. Looting the Seas investigates why, and reveals a world where even the experts seem unable to agree how to ensure the sustainability of Atlantic bluefin stocks.
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Main credits
Sorrentino, Bruno (Director)
Sorrentino, Bruno (Producer)
Bradshaw, Steve (Narrator)
Other credits
Music, Antonio Testa; editors, Barbara Zosel, Sotira Kyriacou.
Distributor subjects
Animal Rights; Anthropology; Business Practices; Capitalism; Economics; Endangered Species; Environment; Environmental Ethics; European Studies; Fisheries; Geography; Global Issues; Globalization; International Trade; Japan; Law; Marine Biology; Millennium Development Goals; Oceans and Coasts; Social Psychology; Sociology; SustainabilityKeywords
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[sil.]
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We look to people across the world on the edge
of globalization, but what changes our lives
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changes nature too. Globalizing
how we use nature’s resources
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is global co-operation, but as this story
shows that could be a long time coming,
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if it comes at all.
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Blue fin tuna,
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beautiful, sleek, and we
are loving it to death.
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As the world catches the taste
for Sushi, blue fin tuna
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is big business.
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One fish can sell for a $100,000
but some say Atlantic Blue Fin,
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the kind caught in the Mediterranean is on the
verge of collapse. The rules that protect them
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don’t work, and we found out why.
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Over investigation reveals a
$4 four billion black market
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and the world where sometimes
even the experts are all at sea.
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(inaudible) the BCDs of 2008 are completed
or not yet? We don’t Know. We don’t know.
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It is very simple if there are no
fish then there are no fisherman.
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Cheating was part of the game. This is not Japanese
responsibility, it is their responsibility.
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It’s just bloody mess
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[sil.]
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The black market in tuna
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has spanned the world, to find out
how it works we joined forces
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with the Washington based International Consortium
of Investigative Journalists, the ICIJ,
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our guide reporter Kate Willson.
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She’s traveled from office by the White House
to the tuna ranches of the Mediterranean.
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This is a tuna ranch ranches that
revolutionized the industry,
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they brought fabulous profits, you
know, they are controversial.
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I am part of a team of reporters in seven
different countries working for the ICIJ.
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I’ve spent most of the year
researching the blue fin tuna trade.
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Blue fin tuna sit near the top
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of the marine food chain, over
fishing has shrunk their numbers
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by around 75% if tuna stocks collapse
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it could affect the
entire marine eco-system.
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So this a new game eh… we are here to play
the game in, in a new way because otherwise…
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otherwise, we will have a
complete depletion of the stocks.
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At the heart of this dispute, the European Union
none the states include big fishing countries,
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like France, Italy, and Spain.
The EUs task is to prevent final
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and terminal collapse of blue fin stocks.
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The very first day when I took office,
I… I came upon \"Blue Fin Tuna\" issue.
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There was a danger of blue fin tuna in
the Mediterranean to get collapsed.
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In March this year, the EU called for a ban
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on international trade in blue fin tuna.
It was opposed
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by Japan and its allies.
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Since 1969, fishing and trade in blue
fin has been regulated by ICCAT,
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the International Commission for
Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.
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ICCAT observers, monitor every catch, the
data go to ICCAT’s headquarters in Madrid.
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Membership is made up of
countries trading blue fin tuna.
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They float(ph) on couches(ph).
We found that on ICCAT’s watch,
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tuna have been looted and the wide spread fraud in
developing Mediterranean fisheries, European governments,
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and dealers in Japan. I think
that you have to realize that
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within the \"blue fin tuna\"
all the country were lying.
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In 2008, ICCAT commission
did an independent review.
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ICCAT was failed by its member states,
whose management of the blue fin fisheries
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was widely seen as an
International disgrace.
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[sil.]
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ICCAT’s International panel of scientists
advices on sustainable fishing levels,
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for years there recommendations
have been ignored.
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It’s disappointing, if the country would have understood
that you would have implemented to run this level,
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and then, you have no reason for
collapsing within this population.
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But because it didn’t listen, and didn’t pay utter
attention, and didn’t implement or didn’t even control,
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and then, it… in… in 2006, we started
to speak about reason of collapse.
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That risk could’ve grown
along with the tuna ranches
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in the late ‘90s. Most tuna are
caught by purse seines vessels
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with their huge drawstring
nets, they can snare
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entire scores of blue fin.
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They are tugged sometimes over
hundreds of miles to be fattened up
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in huge cages out at sea.
These ranches can supply
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fresh blue fin all year round, instead of just
a few days a year, when fishing is allowed.
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There also made the trade
much harder to track.
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Did he… He didn’t mention
a monitory month ranch
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he was just talking about…
I’m with Marcos Garcia Rey
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our Spanish ICIJ investigator, we are on our
way to talk to an expert in tuna trade.
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I started as a tuna diver
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working at a ranch, I had my
captain ticket or so umm… I worked
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uh… as a tuna rancher
from a number of years.
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Roberto Meilgo consults for the fishing industry,
environmental groups, and for the ICIJ.
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He says stocks risk collapse not
just because quotas are too high but
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because of the legacy of years of cheating.
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As you see… Cheating was part of the game, and
a business, necessity in order to survive.
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For instance, you have you have 2,000 tons
and you have only declared 1,000 tons.
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So you are going to actually,
umm… fatten that fish,
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then you gonna kill it and cut
it then you going to gain
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between a 11 and 14%. You will say, well,
I found my first 50-60-70% whatever,
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so that’s a way of laundering,
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a part of those 1,000 you did not declare
and the rest goes to the black market.
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Other ways of cheating have involved
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hiding the true numbers of blue
fin transferred to ranch cages.
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Counting them involves the use of video cameras.
One form of blue fin fisherman told Kate
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what was common knowledge within the trade.
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It’s simple, the so wanted cheats always find a way,
they could film in and stop the camera to let’s say,
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20 tons of fish to pass through,
and then, restart the camera,
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so you see cheating is always easy.
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At the ICIJ, we’ve calculated
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that in a decade up to 2008,
one in three blue fin
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caught in the Mediterranean is caught
illegally that’s a haul worth of $4 billion.
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But in 2007, something happened in France
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that shocked everyone. I’m on my way to
the Port of Sète to talk to the fishermen
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who’s been supplying these ranches for years. France
is accounted for about a fifth of the world’s quota
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and is the only country that
has come clean about cheating.
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Ceased by what civil servants told
us was a crisis of conscience,
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France disclosed its true catch,
it’d fished twice its quota.
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Joseph Salou is a former fisheries ministry official who
for 15 years headed an influential Industry association.
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Today, he manages France’s
biggest tuna fishing company.
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Everybody knows that every country committed
fraud, unfortunately, France was the only country
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to say it openly and we are
also the only ones to pay.
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EU countries are jointly represented
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at ICCAT by the European commission,
the commission sanctioned France
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reducing its fishing quotas.
Do you think it’s fair
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that France has been made an example of?
What can I say,
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that’s the way things are.
Everyone agrees that
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blue fin tuna fishing must be
regulated and managed scientifically.
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[sil.]
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Amid political embarrassment, French
officials launched an investigation,
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six fishermen could face prosecution. To the
prosecutor, it has been an extraordinary insight
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into the tricks of the trade.
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There are different types of fraud if you like,
that one person was put under investigation
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who admitted that he didn’t write
the quantity actually fished.
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There are all the kinds of
frauds, some frauds declaration,
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for example, about catches about several hundred tons
of tuna because an individual has sold this quota
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to a Turkish group and collected
the money on a account in Spain,
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and to justify his false declaration
he wrote fake customs documents,
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so you see there are different types of
frauds of which the judges are seized
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and on which the tribunal
will eventually pronounce.
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Investigators a source told
us had requested permission
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to probe French ministry officials. They’d
allegedly adjusted the catch figures down
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before reporting to the European
Commission. But prosecutors limited the
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inquiry to the industry. The catch figures
were collated by the French government,
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how deeply was it involved.
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We spoke to a source within the
France’s ministry officials
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on condition of an enmity(ph). He’d worked on blue fin
management, he said that the ministry had a clear
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but tacit understanding to
downplay the catch figures.
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We can’t talk about complicity
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but rather mutual
understanding, there was a need
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to keep alive an important economic sector.
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Up until 2007, the test declarations were
made only at the end of the fishing season.
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This balance sheet was presented
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by the French authorities to the European Commission
in such a way that it would satisfy more or less
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the demands of the quota.
Did the ministry know that
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in 2003, 2004, 2005, that their…
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their vessels were over fishing this much?
Yes, their administration was aware.
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[music]
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4.4 million tons of fish and sea food
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are caught in European waters every year.
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In December 2007, the European Union’s
auditors published a damning report
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on its member states over fishing, including
blue fin. There was unreliable data,
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ineffective monitoring
and lacks enforcement.
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The Court of Auditors Report uh… was a
very good opportunity for us to change.
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I’m going to have the legislate…
the legislative proposal
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next spring and I’ll hope that we’ll
change the things from the next year.
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It wasn’t only France that was cheating. The
French ministry wouldn’t agree to an interview
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but said France now follows the rules.
The EU does send inspectors on boats.
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They run by the Community Fisheries
Control Agency, the CFCA.
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These companies that they make
international agreements,
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and of course, the fishing industry says, yeah,
but neighbors are fishing also a little more.
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And then, uh… everybody is
fishing a little bit more.
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Uh… well, if everybody is fishing a
little bit of more, it’s much more.
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In 2008, a year after France
admitted cheating on its quota,
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ICCAT introduced the BCD, the
\"Blue fin Catch Document.\"
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It was meant to be the ultimate
weapon against illegal fishing.
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Ivory, net load of tuna, now,
gets the unique BCD number.
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It’s an ID card, without it, Blue
fin cannot be legally traded.
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It’s a very precise document.
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I don’t know how anyone could
break the rules anymore.
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And now, we can follow the fish
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uh… from the moment that
it is caught in real time,
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to vessels, who are bringing it to the
farms. Uh… In the farms, we can control,
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and then, subsequently if it is exported
to Japan we can control it as well.
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But we found the very system
designed to save the Blue fin
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is flawed and incomplete.
The paper records,
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the BCDs have to be manually
typed into ICCAT’s database.
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For scientists and policy makers, the BCD is vital
for informed decisions on safe fishing levels.
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It’s kept secret, and its password
protected. But we’ve managed to gain access
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through an ICCAT member country.
When you look at the catch date,
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often times it’s in different formats.
So if you are trying to find
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what was caught on what day, there’s no way to do that
unless you go through manually clean office stuff.
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You can use this for really good things
but there’s so many holes in this data
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that it’s not much better than a pile of papers. You…
you’re looking at about 80% of all of that person catches
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or missing something it doesn’t have a
country, it doesn’t have any kind of
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import information, some
information that would let me know
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if this fish was legal.
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There are more than 60 ranches
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spread across the Mediterranean,
the ICIJ investigators
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have found instances where ranches apparently
harvested more fish than they required.
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You can see that there is a Spanish vessel
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that reported transferring 38 fish into a
ranch, and yet 1,736 were reported harvested.
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We see them as 20 different ranches,
fish uh… don’t reproduce in cages
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and so why you would normally
see fish get heavier,
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you wouldn’t see them increase in numbers.
I can’t say it’s cheating,
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all I can say that now we are talking about
twice as many uh… three times as many,
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ten times as many harvested as are being transferred
into cages. So you wouldn’t expect say these many
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and the fishermen are saying the same thing. There
is nothing given here that is complete so far,
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so it’s within the system
that has been brought
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is not really practical. The fish can
go from a small boat to a bigger boat,
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to a bigger boat to a farm, to a farm to another
farm and then exported tom total market
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but not exported as a given fish, it can be
exported processed, so you have to track
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and to know when you have a piece of store
arriving(ph) at the sushi total market
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that’s this part of the fish belong to the some
fish another part of this maybe on another market.
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Just for one fish, you see, just for one
fish it’s huge but when we have million fish
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or dozen or under the dozen fish
over the year. (inaudible).
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[music]
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Despite the challenges one
ranch has a solution.
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Group Balfego runs a
blue fin ranch in Spain.
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[music]
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From the moment it’s landed, every tuna is
tracked using a straight forward barcode system
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by (inaudible) any super market,
every fish and every part of it
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can now be followed through to market.
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Tracking systems need to
do what you see here,
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using barcodes and digital information. It
goes perfectly well in other industries
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and can work perfectly for fishing.
You cannot trace fish
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with hand written documents
and photocopies.
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Applied across the industry Balfego’s
approach could enable monitors
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to check the catch in real time.
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The data from the BCDs is vital
for making stock assessments.
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It’s collated by the ICCAT
secretariat which also coordinates
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the activators of the ICCAT
commission, later the member states
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For blue fin tuna, we
have some difficulties
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uh… for about more than 10 years now,
it is over fishing and we had some
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illegal fishing, and commission
has tried several times
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to deal with this and to tale
some uh… management measures.
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We analyzed the database, uh… for
2008 and 2009 and found that
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in nearly half of all of the cases they are
missing crucial information that would allow
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a person to verify to that,
that fish was legally caught.
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So was anybody analyzing the database?
Of course we have… we have… we… we… we
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database I think it’s been it, it has been a
light for the… for the… for the blue fin tuna
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for the stock assessment. Scientists
say that umm… they use this data
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to make recommendations on catch limits.
How can they do that
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if 2008 won’t be complete
for another two years?
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I have no… I have no… no… no
idea, it depends have they…
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they have not completed?
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(inaudible) the BCDs of 2008 are
completed or not yet? We don’t know
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We don’t know. So she… she knows… Absolutely, not complete… I have… I have
analyzed the data. But she know… You know, why are you asking if you know?
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I keep telling you that these BCDs we
just started because in the system
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is not as easy as you think because
it takes time to deal with all this.
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So we started this in
2008, and we are trying
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and we are explaining to contracting parties, the
difficulty we are facing using this document
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and we are having here people using these
for but… no, and we are having difficulties
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so it works for something we are improving
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but it’s… would still need… I told you it’s not
perfect yet but we still need to improve the system.
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And do you think you are uh…
You are making it electronic,
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I mean that know there was some discussion about it during
that. If the commission decides so, I have no problem.
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[sil.]
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Japan’s Tsukiji fish market, the biggest in the world,
where most of the Mediterranean tuna catch ends up,
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and where some
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see worrying signs. Ironically it’s
here that we might find a more
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accurate picture of what’s happening
under the waters of the Mediterranean.
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Mature blue fin are important for breeding,
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they can span up to 10 times more eggs
than the younger adults. Over the years,
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the size and weight of blue fin coming through
Tsukiji have been meticulously recorded.
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This is market data pertaining to,
uh… the, uh… fresh blue fin tuna
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auction market in Japan from 2002-2009,
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this clearly shows that something,
uh… very wrong is happening.
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The fresh is getting smaller and
smaller, and smaller meaning that the
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population, the core population
of spawners is reducing
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uh… rapidly that is a clear sign
that the stock is in bad shape.
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Trafficking in blue fin is a global market.
00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:59.999
In 2006, Japan and Australia
commissioned a confidential joint report
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to gauge the state of the
southern blue fin tuna,
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a sister species to the Atlantic blue fin.
We’ve obtained a copy.
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It describes the Japanese traders as playing
a central role the tuna black market,
00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:19.999
it lists wide spread over fishing
and laundering of tuna imports
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by labeling them as cheaper species.
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But today, the world’s biggest consumer
of blue fin may be part of the solution.
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Japan’s refused to accept thousands
of tons of Mediterranean blue fin
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from exporters who couldn’t satisfy
them that catch was legal.
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It is not Japanese responsibility it
is their responsibility to demonstrate
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legality of the product. So unless
they demonstrate we don’t import it,
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even two years ago, we made
it very clear to the people,
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and I… I… I… I’m pretty sure that
they know that what is requirement.
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But they failed then, they have
to accept the consequences.
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Migratory species are always hard to track.
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Blue fin fishermen insist current
fishing levels are sustainable.
00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:19.999
I’ve never seen so many tuna
as in uh… past two years.
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In 2009, we started fishing on June 2nd,
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by the 11th, we’d already fished our quota,
and we took only the fish we wanted.
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When we left, we had to close our
eyes, so as not to look at the fish
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we were leaving behind.
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What he told me has echoed with other fishermen and ranchers
I’d talked to but that’s only the part of the story.
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There are doubts over even the
most basic counting operations.
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In September this year, another internal
report, this time commissioned by ICCAT
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found its observers had \"… no reliable means
to accurately estimate the number and weight
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of tuna caught…\" Some didn’t
have snorkels or binoculars
00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:09.999
more need to stop the possible \"…
manipulation of the underwater footage…\"
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used for counting blue fin. On the
vital BCDs, the described cases
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where the ICCAT observers had been obliged
to sign catch documents they had no means
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of authenticating. Mr. Meski still
reckons there are grounds for optimism.
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The situation is not as bad as we thought
00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:34.999
and uh… there are some
possibilities if we adopt
00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:39.999
several management measure with precaution,
00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:44.999
we can have a better situation
and the stocks could be rebuilt.
00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.999
As Europe cleans up its
act ranching activities
00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:54.999
passing to less regulated waters
in North Africa and Turkey,
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the new challenge for the regulators.
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.999
[sil.]
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This month all ICCAT member states meet in Paris
to consider the state of Atlantic blue fin tuna.
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There are scientists calculated 60% chance
00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:19.999
the stock can be stabilized
if fishing can be limited
00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.999
to between 0 and 1300 and a 1/2 thousand
tones but still they can’t be sure,
00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:29.999
they still don’t have reliable figures.
00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:34.999
So the authorities willing
to know where we are today
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that we are testing it’s what all the
bloody(ph) catch, just wanna to know
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what are the real catch. We
could’ve avoided this situation.
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It was so obvious that if we continued
exactly it was not sustainable.
00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:54.999
With years of fraud and cheating, a
management system that still doesn’t work.
00:25:55.000 --> 00:26:00.000
The truth is that the blue fin
tuna are still living on the edge.
Distributor: Bullfrog Films
Length: 26 minutes
Date: 2011
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: 10-12, College, Adult
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