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At the age of 12,

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I became aware of the problem
of species going extinct.

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In Veneto, where I come from,
the rivers were populated

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by many species
like the white-legged crayfish.

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I witnessed their extinction.
They disappeared from our rivers.

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It is irreversible.
There is no going back.

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At 13, I started diving,
I fell in love with the sea.

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I discovered
a whole world under water,

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for this wonderful blue sea
is teeming with life,

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it is home to 80% of the
biodiversity of this planet.

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- Good evening!
- Good evening.

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What do you want?

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What are you fishing?
Using what technique?

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With a fishing light attractor.

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OK! That explains
the red lights...

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I’ve never seen
this kind of fishing here.

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Thanks... Good luck!

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So we are going
to the South, then West.

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It’s lots of waiting
for little action,

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but that’s also
what we’re here for!

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We’re here to patrol.

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We know there isn’t going
to be action every day.

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The main thing is to be there
at the right time,

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to be ready when it happens.

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I started with Sea Shepherd
7 years ago.

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I did 2 campaigns on land.

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Then in 2016,
I joined the boat crew.

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And since then,
I\'ve been on the boat, full time.

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In Belgium, I live
250 km from the coast.

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So I wasn’t really destined
to fall in love with the sea.

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It was Jacques Cousteau’s
documentaries

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that made me want
to discover the ocean.

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When I started growing up,
I discovered the reality of the sea,

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what’s really going on.

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It’s not all just beautiful sharks
and marine animals.

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There is a real problem
in the oceans,

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and we need to act now
to try to protect them

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before it’s too late.

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Good evening, what’s the name
of your boat?

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We can’t hear you.

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Okay, we’ll come closer.

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What kind of fishing are you doing?

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We have a small drift net
with a 10 cm mesh size.

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Okay. Is it in the water?

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Yes, on this side.

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What time are you pulling it up?

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We’re waiting because
of the full moon,

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because we have nothing,

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We’re not catching anything
right now!

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it\'s not a good night...

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They are fishing with a
line, a longline.

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You can go right to the side.

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I know him, he’s from Lipari.

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- Hello.
- Hello.

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How are you?
How’s it going?

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We’re not catching anything,
just this piece of wood!

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What are you fishing with? A line?

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Yes, we’re using a line,

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and if it gets something,
we’ll throw out the net.

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But unfortunately
there\'s nothing.

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We’re going to keep trying,
Maybe we’ll have better luck...

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Thank you, have a good day.

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No type of activity
is allowed in Zone A.

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So even the smallest
boat must be reported.

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Area B is more complex

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because it is much larger

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and there are more exemptions.

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Come on! Come on!

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They’re there. Park here.

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Wait here.

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Good evening Commander,
this is Cesare, with Sea Shepherd.

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We are at Mooring 27

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I saw a guy on the rocks
but he quickly dove into the water

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I can’t get close
to see what he’s doing.

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What should I do?

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Okay, I’ll move somewhere else
to try to see better.

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As soon as I know for sure,
I’ll call you back, Okay?

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Nothing!

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Rosa, Rosa, Andrea. Over.

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Andrea, Rosa Rosa. Over.

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There’s a boat passing, but
on the outside of the buoys.

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Hello, this is Cesare from
Sea Shepherd Italy.

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We have a boat
in the middle of zone A

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it is a white boat, about
4 meters long

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and a small fishing boat

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at the boundary of zones A and B.

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The little boat is just
under the lighthouse

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but at about 30
or 40 meters from the rock.

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- So there are two boats?
- Yes, there are two.

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We have a boat
in the middle of zone A.

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We have one on the left
and one on the right.

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We\'ll need a drone
to understand.

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Exactly!

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So you stay here
if it’s okay with you,

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and I’ll go to the bunker to try
to intercept the second ship

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if he tries to get back to port.

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We’regoing to the other side
because the vessel fishing

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in the protected area
is attempting to return to port.

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We have two teams
positioned along its route

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and we’ll try to pick it up at the port
with the Coastguard.

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It’s an authorised trawler.

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The Coastguard confirmed it.

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It has an exemption
allowing fishing in Zone B.

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But the problem is right now
he’s entering Zone A.

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He’s trying to be sneaky!

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And if he’s being sneaky,
we\'ll catch him.

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I’m disappointed and angry.

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But while this one escaped us,

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many poachers have stopped coming

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as a result of our efforts
over the past few years.

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So we should keep going,
and not be discouraged,

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even if on days like this,

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it is difficult to keep smiling

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and stay positive!

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We hope this time
it works.

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Oh no!
They’re coming out with bags!

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I’m the one who called you.

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Where are they?

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That way, between the rocks
and the mooring...

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Here you can see
that they have nets

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and then they enter the water
with masks and snorkels.

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- Please step out of the water!
- What?

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- What are you doing?
- Just swimming....

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- You need all this equipment?
- I just have a little swim shirt.

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- I assume you don’t have your papers with you?
- No, no.

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So come out and we’ll get them
in the car.

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You asked me who I was,
I said Municipal Police.

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So don’t make a fuss,
no need to cry foul.

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Ooh! Ah!

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Tone it down.

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A basketball!
Incredible!

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I’m the commander of the Conrad.

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I realized something

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through collecting
rubbish at sea.

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Everything we use
every day ends up in the sea.

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Whether it’s essential goods,
or for having fun,

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it all ends up in the sea
in the form of polluting waste.

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Nevertheless, I remain optimistic.

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I believe
that we can put an end to

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continued abuse
of the environment.

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As with everything else,

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there was a beginning
and there will be an end.

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The degradation of nature
and the overexploitation

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of raw materials
overexploitation can end.

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And if we all got involved,
it would come a lot sooner.

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The problem with tuna cages,

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is the economic system
that supports this kind of fishing.

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You have the Italian fisherman
who sells the product of his work

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at a ridiculously low price

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to a wholesaler,
usually Maltese,

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who, in turn, resells it
at a price ten times higher

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to a Japanese buyer.

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Indeed, there are twice as many tuna
compared to four years ago,

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and three times more than in 2010,

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but that corresponds to only 30%
of the initial population.

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There’s still 70% missing.

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So it’s dangerous, because
if the tuna disappears,

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species such as sardines
will no longer have predators

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will increase in number and
destroy other species.

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It will put the ecosystem
out of balance

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and this will lead
to our own extinction.

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It is therefore essential
to preserve the ocean

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in order to protect our species.

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Please, didn’t you hear what I said?

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- Have we got room on the right?
- Yes!

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So let\'s go!

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Head straight for the buoy.

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Stop!

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I wonder why it’s so heavy!

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That’s because it goes to a depth,
of 2,000 meters

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This stuff is really heavy.

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Ooh, I was scared,
but it was my reflection!

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So let\'s catch this net.

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Ok, it\'s an illegal large-mesh net.

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The meshes are 18 cm.

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The are exactly 18 cm.

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Alright, guys.

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Roberta, the boat at the end of the line...

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I can’t see it anymore.

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I can’t see the red light anymore.

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I can see two lights,
one next to the other.

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It\'s too far away to see them.

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With the light, it\'s okay.

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Hello!

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Good evening!

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What kind of fishing do you do?

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- You got it? Are you filming?
- Yes!

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They’re quiet, aren’t they?

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It\'s a swordfish,
it looks like a swordfish.

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The swordfish is in the water?

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No, they caught it,
it’s on the deck.

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We have caught this fishing boat
in the act of poaching

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with an illegal large-mesh
driftnet, a ferrettara.

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We will follow it
to its destination.

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If they go to the port
we will follow them to the port,

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if the coastguard manages
to intervene,

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we can leave them directly
in the hands of the law.

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I have a business, I have a family

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I work on the sea.

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Put yourself in my shoes:

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A kilometer of lines with drift-nets?
Prohibited.

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Fishing for tuna? Prohibited.

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Albacore? Prohibited.

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What would you do in my place?

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Yes, but we can\'t use driftnets,
it\'s impossible.

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Driftnets kill all marine animals.

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They kill!

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As long as there are sperm whales
in the Mediterranean

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we will remove all driftnets
from the sea.

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Excuse me, but sperm whales,

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do we catch them with 18 cm mesh?

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With 18 cm, yes, unfortunately.

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Do you know where
we found the driftnet?

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Offshore from Salina

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and there were sharks caught in it

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swordfish... lot of sharks...

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but no sperm whales

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There is a rule, it is true.

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But illegal fishing will never stop

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because people, unfortunately,
have no other place to go...

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The Mediterranean is the most
endangered sea on the planet

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here we are, it concerns us all.

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Do you know if the sea is dying?

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The basis of dialogue must always
start from legality.

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If something is forbidden,
you shouldn\'t do it

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otherwise it can\'t work

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Without legal foundations,
nothing can be built.

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The purpose of this scientific
operation

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is to find sperm whales.

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We hope to be able to locate some
and see how many there are,

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so we can map the population
around the Aeolian Islands.

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If, as we think,
they are there and there are many,

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then it becomes essential
to protect this area,

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to prevent it from being exposed
to illegal fishing.

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and in so doing, protect,
the sperm whale,

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which is an endangered species.

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It’s audible because we’re at 28 kHz.
It’s like tata tatata...

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- What should we hear?
- A sort of \"tatata tata\".

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Those are dolphins

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They’ve come to visit us!

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Under the boat.

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It’s a loggerhead sea turtle.

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Did you hear it?

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Yes, I heard it...

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That\'s it!

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That’s a sperm whale.

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What are you saying?

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It’s the dance of the sperm whale!

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We’ve found one, for sure.

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Let me hear it.

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It’s a success!
A wonderful success!

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We did it! Finally!

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I want to hear it.

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We found a sperm whale

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Finally, we found a sperm whale

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at the last moment

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It’s here, under the boat.

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We can hear it with the hydrophone,

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and now we are going to try

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to spot him with the binoculars.

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to find out if it’s a male
or a female.

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I can’t hear it anymore.

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Easy, easy, Serena.

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Let’s go, let’s go!

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It’s alive! It’s alive!

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It’s stuck in the bag.

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Can I move back?

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We saved its life!

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Is everyone at their post?

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- Hello.
- Hello.

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Sorry, we were wondering
why did you turn off all your lights?

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The red lights are on.

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Yes, but a moment ago,
you had flashlights.

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Because we stopped.

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Have you stopped?

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- Can we come on board?
- No, no.

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Why not?

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Can we see what type
of fishing you are doing?

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No, you can’t.

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- But what is that?
- What?