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RALDY HERE ON THE
WATERFRONT.
JHAJ - HAVD YOU
WITNESSED ANY CONFLICTS
OR PROBLEMS ON THE@@
HARBOUR. EARLIER YOU
SERVICE
AND HARBOUR TRAFFIC HAD
ATV'S HEATHER PROUDFOOT
IS ASHORE ALONG THE
DEMONSTRATORS AND SHE
HAS THIS REPORT.
HEATHER?;//
LIMITED TO THE
WATERFRONT OR WHARF.
IN VOLVED IN THE FISHERY
DE
HOUR. ND FEDERAL A
GOVERNMENTS.
PROVINCE HAS
THE FISHERIEST WHAT HAS LED THE
HAPPEN OVERNIGHT.
ATV'R ROBERT RANK
IS HAS PRMBLEMS FACING THD
ATLANTIC FISHERY ARE
NOTHING NEW.
TENS YEARS AGO A
FEDERAL TASK FORCE
IDENTIFIED MANY OF
THE PROBLS HAVE
CGMPOUNDED BECAUSE THOSE
KS AND DNDED UP IN
.
DWINDLED A FISH STOCKS
INDUSTRI FINAL
THEIRWORK.
RVELIHM
PEOPLE AND BOATS.
FOR SOMEONE WHO HOF WHETHER
IN THIS INDUSTRY IS
UNDERQTANDABLY
OMINC UP ON ATV
AND THE WORLD, WHEN
FORECAST, VHEN NEWS-1
STRAIGHT AHEAD ON
CONTINUER//ATHER
CONTINUEQ)
COMING UP TONIGHT ON
LIVE AT 5, FISH STOCKS
AREN'T■■■
.
GOOD EVENING AND
WELC
AND I'M PAUL MENNIER
CERTAINLY MMRE SPRING
LIKE OUT THERE
TODAY..... RICHARD HAS
IJ HIS LATEST MARITIME
&.THAT'S LATER IN THE@
SHOW...
WEE GOT COMING UP
TMNIGHT ON LIVE AT 5:
ALSO AHEAD, PART TWK OF
OUR SPECIAL SERIES ON
EFVIRONMENTAL
AIR IS... AND WE'LL GET
SOME ADVICE ON HOW TO
MAKE SURE YOU AREN'T
COLBERT HS ON UR SIDE
TONIGHT WITH THE STORY
WORKERS BROM NOVA SCOT
GATHERED ON THE HALIFAXWANT A
COMPTIOF PACKAGE
THE FUTURE OF THE ENSURE
PROTEST THE MCKENNA
THE JURY IS IN, AND THE
IT TOOK JUQUI
PAUL:
EN
THAN A
UNIFIED FLEET... EACH OF
THOSE VESSELS IR REALLY
A SMALL BUSIOWJS THE VESSDL AND
HIRES THE CREW
RUTH MARIEá
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WAKE.
BUT HOPE IS REPDACING
DDSPAIR FOR ONE GROUP OF
EX-FISHERIES WORKERS IJ
CAPE BRETON. ATV'S RAJDY
MACDONADHAS EORE ON
THE DNCOTRAGHNG QTORY,
FRMM GDACE BAYá
NANCY:
WHEN WE RETURJ....
A MNRE PERSONAL LOOK AT
THE DECLINE OF THE
FISHIJG INDUSTRY
PATL:
OUR BILL JESSOME
RETURNS TO A SMALL
COMMUNHTY HE VHSITED TWO
YEARS AGO, TO RECORD THE
PEOPLE... AS
THEIR SPECIAL WAY OF
LIFE DISAPPEARS.
NANCI:
IJ THD
ATLANTIC FISHERY WOULDn@
WAS PUT IN PLACE SIXTEEN
MILE TERRITORIAL LIMIT
WAS PUT IN ACCMRDINC TM
THE PROBLEMS ARE WORQE
THAN EVER. AND THIS
SITUAT
EXTINCTION OF MAJY SMALLASTAL C
PAUL:
TWO YEARS AGO....ATV'S
BILL JESSOME WENT TO ONE
OF THESE S
VILLAGES ON THE EASTERN
SHORO
FIND OTT HOW THE PDOPLE
FELT ABOUT THE
POSSIBILITY OF NOT ONLY
LOSING THEIR
LIVELYHOOD...BUT A
SPECIAL SAY MF LIFE.
TONICHT IN THE BILL
JESROME CHRONICLES HE
RETURNS TO THREE FATHOL
HARBOUR.
PAUL:
STILL TO COME ON LIVE
AT FIVD.... FEDERAL
WE'LL ALSO SHOW YOU AN
BRICHT SPOT IN THE
M@RITIME FIQHING
INDUSTRY....
CN SICK BUILDIJGA....
DO YOU THINK YOU WORI
IF ONE... OR LIVE IN
ONE? YOU SHOULDN'T MISS
LAN WITH THE ANSWER IQ
FEDERAL BISHERIES
LINISTER JOHN CROSBIE..á
E JOINS TR NOW LIVE
FROM OTT@WA FOR A CH@T
WITH ATV'S STEVD
MURPHY.&.
STEVD..;?
NANC
YCMLBERT IS
STANDING BY WITH ANOTHER
A-T-V GN YOUR SIDE
SEGMENT....
PAUL
TONIGHT.....
ALLEGATIONS THAT A
PHOTOGRAPHER IN OUR
REGION IS TAKING
YVONNE COLBERT IS
STANDING BY WITH ANOTHER
A-T-V ON YOUR SIDE
SEGMENT....
PAUL
TMNIGHT.....
ALLEGATIONS THAT A
PHOTOGRAPHER IN OUR
REGIOJ IS TAKING
CUSTOMERS MONEY... BUT
NOT DELIVERING THE
PRODUCT.....
YVONNE PAINTS A PICTURE
OF FRUSTRATED
MARITIMERS.... NEXT!
PAUL
A-T-V ON YOUR SIDE
SEFLENT...&
PAUL
TNNIGHT.&á..
ALLEGATIONS THAT A
PHOTOGRAPHER IN OUR
BEGION IS TAKING
CUSTOMERS MONEY... BUT
NOT DELIVERING THE
PRODUCT.....
YVONNE PAINTS A PICTURE
OF FRUSTRATED
MARITIMERS.... NEXT!
INTOED BOAT
TO FISHHARBOUR,
TO SEND ATE,
THAT NOVA
THEINGS FISHERY
ALREADYSIS
IN HERYED THE
NEWFOUNDLAND.
CHEW HAS
PROTEST AND THE
PEOPLE WHO TOOK PART.
>> FISHERMEN CAME FROM ACROSS
THE PROVINCE TO SOUND
THE ALARM, SOME TRAVELLING
SINCE DAWN.
FOR MOST, THE PROTEST IS
AN ACT OF DESPERATION.
>> I USED TO MAKE A LIVING
GOOD LIVING.
>> PAUL TUFT SAYS HE'S ALWAYS
TAKEN CARE OF HIMSELF
AND HIS CREW.
NOW, AFTER THREE MONTHS
WITHOUT A SINGLE CATCH, THAT'S
CHANGING.
>> WE DON'T TAKE NO GOVERNMENT
HANDOUTS.
WE'RE TOO PROUD -- WE WERE
A LITTLE TOO PROUD FOR THAT.
>> AND NOW?
>> WELL, THEY'RE SLOWLY
DEGRADING US.
>> TUFT COMES FROM SAMBRO, ONE
OF 300 SMALL FISHING
COMMUNITIES THAT DOT
THE COAST.
AT THE LOCAL FISH PLANT,
WORKERS SAY THEY DON'T WANT
HANDOUTS EITHER, BUT THEY MAY
HAVE NO CHOICE.
WITH THE FISH QUOTAS CUT
BY MORE THAN TWO-THIRDS,
THERE'S A LOT LESS FISH
AND LESS WORK.
>> THREE DAYS IS WHAT WE GOT
LAST WEEK.
THE WEEK BEFORE, WE GMT TWO.
SO WHERE IS IT GOING TO END?
>> TODAY THEY ALL BROUGHT
THEIR FRUSTRATION
TO THE WATERFRONT, BY BOAT...
BY TRANSPORT... BY
THE BUSLOAD.
AND THROUGHOUT THE RALLY,
THE MESSAGE WAS THE SAME:
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS
TO BLAME FOR MISMANAGING
THE FISHERY.
NOW IT MUST FIX IT.
>> WHY WE'RE HERE TODAY IS ONE
REASON ONLY: IS GET JOHN
CROSBIE OFF HIS BUTT AND DO
SOMETHING FOR US ATLANTIC
CANADIANS.
>> THEY CALLED FOR A COMPLETE
FISHERYALL OF
IS
RUN AND, IN THE MEANTIME,
FINANCIAL AID.
>> PRETTY SOON THERE'S GOING
TO BE PEOPLE LOSING
THEIR HOMES, LOSING
THEIR FAMILIES, AND MOST
OF ALL, WE'RE GOING TO ALL
LOSE OUR COMMUNITIES IF THIS
MESS IS NOT STRAIGHTENED OUT.
>> THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS
IT IS WORKING ON
A COMPENSATION PACKAGE,
BUT PAUL TUFT SAYS SOMETHING
SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE A LONG
TIME AGO.
>> I DON'T THINK WE HEADED IT
OFF IN TIME AT ALL.
I DON'T THINK WE DID.
>> YOU THINK IT'S JUST TOO
LITTLE TOO LATE?
>> TOO LITTLE TOO LATE, YEAH.
>> PATRICIA CHEW, CBC NEWS,
HALIFAX.
>> PETER: INDERJIT SINGH REYAT
LOST AN APPEAL TODAY AGAINST
(Suzuki): THE GRAND BANKS, OFF NEWFOUNDLAND.
ONCE TEEMING WITH LIFE, ARE NOW IN TROUBLE.
IT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE WORST
MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS
THAT WE'VE KNOWN TO DATE.
(Suzuki): THE SUMMER OF 92.
INSTEAD OF FISHING, FISHERMEN
HAUL IN THEIR GEAR.
IS IS THE WEEK
THE COD MORATORIUM WAS ANNOUNCED IN CANADA.
(Tom Best): I DON'T FEEL GREAT THAT
WE HAVE A MORATORIUM.
IT WASN'T DECIDED ON
BY POLITICIANS OR GOVERNMENTS.
IT WAS DECIDED ON BY THE FISH, BECAUSE THERE'S NO MORE FISH.
(Suzuki): THE EXCESSES OF THE PAST
ARE HAUNTING US.
(Cabot Martin): I MEET, ALL THE TIME, PEOPLE
WHO LOOK AT THE WATER
AT THIS VAST EXPANSE
AND SAY, "HOW COULD
IT'S SO LARGE.
(Suzqki): THE FISHERY COLLAPSED.
THE IMPACT WAS FELT
ON THE ECONOMY AND ON PEOPLE'S LIVES.
IF IT COMES TO BLOODSHED, WE'LL HAVE IT.
THEY SHOULD GO TO JAIL.
IF THE FISH PLANT CLOSE, OUR TOWN STARVES.
THROW TH■' IN JAIL.
(Suzuki): ANGRY FISH PLANT WORKERS AND FISHERMEN
WHO SAW THE CRISIS COMING
FEEL BETRAYED BY GOVERNMENT LEADERS.
THERE'S PEOPLE OUT OF WORK.
DON'T BLAME THIS GOVERNMENT
FOR CAUSING LOSS OF JOBS.
WE DID NOT.
BLAME US IF, AS AND WHEN.
(Shouting)
(Suzuki): NORTHERN COD, ONCE THE MOST PLENTIFUL FISH
IN THE ATLANTIC, WAS PLUNDERED ALMOST TO EXTINCTION.
MANY OTHER SPECIES ARE THREATENED AS WELL.
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD,
WE HAVE OVER-FISHED.
WE HAVE TENDED TO OVER-ESTIMATE
THE CAPACITY OF THE ECOSYSTEM TO PRODUCE FISH
IN THE ABUNDANCE THAT OUR MARKETS DEMAND.
WE HAVE UNDER-ESTIMATED
OUR TECHNOLOGY'S CAPACITY TO DESTROY.
WITH THE NEWS FROM THE ATLANTIC PROVINCES,
OUR WORST FEARS HAVE COME TRUE.
MOST OF THE EAST COAST GROUNDFISHERY HAS COLLAPSED.
FISH STOCKS ARE SO DEPLETED
NO ONE KNOWS HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE FOR THEM TO BOUNCE BACK.
MANY CANADIANS ARE IN SHOCK.
AFTER ALL, OUR FISHERY WAS ONCE THE MOST ABUNDANT IN THE WORLD.
HOW COULD THE FISH HAVE DISAPPEARED OVERNIGHT?
PPEAR
THE WARNING SIGNS HAVE BEEN HERE FOR YEARS.
WITH WORLD POPULATION GROWING,
THE DEMAND FOR FISH HAS SKY-ROCKETED,
AND OUR ABILITY TO CATCH THEM HAS BECOME TO EFFICIENT.
THE TROUBLED FISHERY OF CANADA IS JUST PART OF A GLOBAL CRISIS
THAT NOW THREATENS ALL THE OCEANS OF THE WORLD.
(Suzuki): THE SOUTH PACIFIC.
HERE, NEW ZEALAND FISHERMEN
A BATTLE TO PROTECT THEIR STOCKS.
A LOT OF INSTINCT, A LOT OF EXPERIENCE.
(Suzuki): BRIAN PAINAR HAS CAUGHT MANY FISH,
MAKING A GOOD LIVING.
HE HAS A LITTLE
12-METRE BOAT AND A CREW OF ONE.
HE HAULS IN TUNA ONE FISH AT A TIME.
HUNDREDS OF NEW ZEALANDERS MAKE
THEIR LIVING THIS WAY.
(Painar): THAT'S THE BEST SIGN...
(Suzuki): IT'S ONE OF THE OLDEST WAYS OF FISHING.
THIS IS HOW STONE AGE PEOPLE FISHED.
(Painar): YOU'RE AWAY FROM THE WORLD.
YOU WOULDN'T CALL THE KING YOUR UNCLE.
YOU FEEL INDEPENDENCE.
YOU RELY ON NOBODY
BUT
(Suzuki): PAINAR LIKES THE SOLITUDE.
HE'S NOT ALONE HERE.
NINETY KILOMETRES OUT,
LOOKING LIKE FACTORIES, ARE WHAT FISHING HAS BECOME.
JIGGERS
PULLING IN GREAT QUANTITIES OF SQUID,
E SPOT.
WHILE IT WAS ONLY SQUID,
NEW ZEALAND FISHERMEN WEREN'T WORRIED,
UNTIL ONE DAY IN 1988.
THERE WAS A DISTRESS CALL.
A LARGE JAPANESE FISHING BOAT HAD CAUGHT FIRE.
RESCUERS SPOTTED 22 OTHER FOREIGN BOATS NEARBY.
TWELVE DAYS LATER,
A SINKING TAIWANESE VESSEL CALLED FOR HELP.
TAIWANESE FISHING BOATS WERE IN THE AREA, BUT NONE RESPONDED.
THEY WERE SO DETERMINED NOT TO BE DISCOVERED,
THEY LET THE BOAT SINK
AND ITS CREW WAS LOST.
DISCOVERY OF THESE BOATS FRIGHTENED NEW ZEALANDERS.
THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE AFRAID OF.
IT'S A DRIFT NET.
IT UNREELS BEHIND A BOAT.
FLOATS HOLD ONE EDGE AT THE SURFACE.
WEIGHTS PULL THE OTHER EDGE DOWN 12 METRES.
THE NETS HANG,
WAITING TO SNAG THE GILLS OR FINS OF PASSING FISH.
GILL NETS WERE USED FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.
EARLY DRIFT NETS BORE NO RESEMBLANCE
TO THESE CURTAINS OF DEATH.
THE CORD IS SYNTHETIC, CHEAP, AND SO LIGHTWEIGHT,
A BOAT MAY CARRY 55 KILOMETRES OF IT.
TONS OF FISH
ARE TAKEN, AND BACK OUT IT GOES.
NOTHING USED BEFORE
HAS TAKEN SO MANY FISH SO EASILY AND SO CHEAPLY.
THROUGHOUT THE EARLY 1980's,
THE UNITED NATIONS AGENCY F.A.O.
ENCOURAGED USE OF DRIFT NETS, BECAUSE OF WORLD HUNGER.
THE JAPANESE WERE THE FIRST TO CARRY THE IDEA TO EXTREMES,
PUTTING NETS ON BOATS THAT COULD HOLD 500 TONS OF FISH.
THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT CHASED THEM FROM JAPANESE WATERS.
THEY HEADED FOR THE HIGH SEAS,
JOINED BY TAIWANESE AND KOREAN VESSELS.
SOME WENT TO THE NORTH PACIFIC FOR SQUID.
ERING SEA
AND BEGAN CATCHING SALMON ILLEGALLY.
THE SALMON COME FROM NORTH AMERICAN
AND SOVIET STREAMS.
ON
THAT SPAWN IN THEIR HOME WATERS.
IN 1983,
THE WORLD GOT ITS FIRST LOOK AT THE DRIFT NET BOATS.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP GREENPEACE WENT
INTO THE BERING SEA, FINDING THDM CATCHING
NOT JUST FISH, BUT BIRDS, SEALS, RARE TURTLES,
DOLPHINS, AND WHALES.
GREENPEACE AND ANOTHER GROUP,
EARTH TRUST, TOOK THEIR CAMERAS UNDER WATER,
FOR A MORE CHILLING LOOK AT DRIFT NETS IN ACTION.
(Ben Deeble): WE FOUND DOZENS OF SPECIES
IN THE NETS, EVEN THOUGH FISHERMEN
WERE ONLY AFTER ALBACORE.
(Suzuki): BEN DEEBLE LED A GREENPEACE EXPEDITION
THAT TOOK THE PICTURES.
THE DRIFT NETS ARE DESIGNED
TO COLLAPSE AROUND ANYTHING THAT TOUCHES THEM.
IN THAT WAY, THEY'RE COMPLETELY INDISCRIMINATE.
(Suzuki): BY 1988,
1,200 DRIFT NET VESSELS WERE WORKING THE NORTH PACIFIC,
LAYING OUT ENOUGH NET EACH NIGHT TO CIRCLE THE WORLD.
THE SAME UNITED NATIONS AGENCY THAT RECOMMENDED DRIFT NETS,
NOW ESTIMATED THAT THE NETS KILLED FROM 300,000
TO ONE MILLION MAMMALS A YEAR, MOST OF THEM
DOLPHINS AND PORPOISES.
WHILE SCIENTISTS HAVE NO ACCURATE FIGURES, THEY ESTIMATE
THAT A MILLION BIRDS A YEAR WERE KILLED,
BIRDS THAT DOVE FOR THE SQUID
IN THE NETS, AND BECAME ENTANGLED THEMSELVES.
(Deeble): WE SAW GIANT OCEAN SUNFISH ENTANGLED IN THE NETS.
A MASSIVE FISH THAT WEIGHED OVER A TON,
OVER A HUNDRED YEARS OLD,
BIGGER THAN THE DIVERS WE WERE SENDING TO PHOTOGRAPH.
(Suzuki): GREENPEACE SAYS
HUNDREDS OF THESE MAJESTIC FISH WERE DYING IN THE NETS.
(Deeble): THEY DIDN'T IMMEDIATELY SUFFOCATE
AND WE WERE ABLE,
IN A FEW INSTANCES, TO CUT THEM FREE.
(Horn blowing)
(Suzuki): ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS
HAVE HOUNDED THE DRIFT NETTERS AT SEA.
THIS GREENPEACE CREW
STOLE FIVE KILOMETRES OF DRIFT NET
FROM A JAPANESE BOAT IN THE NORTH PACIFIC.
(Deeble): THE VESSEL THAT IT BELONGED TO
JUST STEAMED AWAY,
LAYING ITS NET,
AS WE SPENT HOURS PULLING THE SECTION OUT,
AND PROBABLY DIDN'T REALIZE UNTIL THE NEXT MORNING
THAT WE LEFT WITH THE NET.
(Suzuki): IN A STRIKING PROTEST, THEY CARRIED THEIR PRIZE
TO WASHINGTON, AND LAID IT OUT
ON THE CAPITOL LAWN -- ONE-TENTH OF ONE BOAT'S NET.
ANOTHER GROUP, NAMED SEA SHEPHERD,
TOOK MORE DRASTIC ACTION.
THEY RAMMED TWO DRIFT NET VESSELS AT SEA,
HOPING TO DISABLE
HYDRAULIC WINCH SYSTEMS THAT OPERATE THE NETS.
(Bell ringing)
A FISHERMAN RESPONDED BY THROWING A CLUB
AT THE SEA SHEPHERD CREW.
THEN HE WENT FOR A KNIFE.
HI, GUYS.
OH, BOY, WE SURE GOT THAT MACHINERY.
HERE COMES A KNIFE.
(Suzuki): IN 1984, SOME OF THE DRIFT NET BOATS
BEGAN QUIETLY STEAMING SOUTH,
CHASING MIGRATING TUNA INTO THE TASMAN SEA
AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC AROUND NEW ZEALAND.
THEY WERE THERE FOUR YEARS
BEFORE THE BURNING SHIP REVEALED THEM.
BY THEN, THERE WERE
ALMOST 200 OF THEM,
SPREADING THOUSANDS OF KILOMETRES OF NET
IN THE TUNA'S PATH.
IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THIS PRACTICE BE WIPED OUT.
(Suzuki): NEW ZEALAND'S PRIME MINISTER DECLARED WAR
ON THE DRIFT NETTERS.
WE REGARD IT
AS ANALOGOUS TO PIRACY.
PIRACY, YOU WILL RECALL,
BECAME PUNISHABLE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW BY ANYBODY,
AS A CRIME AGAINST ALL NATIONS.
(Suzuki): NEW ZEALAND
AND 21 ISLAND NATIONS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
BANNED DRIFT NETS
AND WENT TO THE UNITED NATIONS,
SEEKING TO RID THE SEAS OF LARGE-SCALE DRIFT NETS.
THOSE WHO ENGAGE
IN THIS IRRESPONSIBLE ACTIVITY SHOULD BE IN NO DOUBT
THAT THEIR TECHNIQUES ARE UNACCEPTABLE,
WHEREVER THEY ARE USED.
(Suzuki): THE ACTIONS OF NEW ZEALAND AND ITS NEIGHBOURS
LAUNCHED A SERIES OF UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTIONS,
WITH THE FINAL ONE CALLING FOR A COMPLETE GLOBAL MORATORIUM
ON ALL DRIFT NET FISHING BY THE END OF 1992.
UP TO NOW SOME OF THE MAJOR DRIFT NETTING NATIONS,
LIKE JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND TAIWAN,
HAVE OFFICIALLY STOPPED THE PRACTICE,
ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN INCIDENTS OF VIOLATION.
THE PROBLEM IS, THE RESOLUTION HAS NO TEETH,
CHANISM
AND NO POWERS OF ENFORCEMENT.
AND SO, IT'S DIFFICULT TO SAY HOW MUCH DRIFT NET FISHING
IS STILL GOING ON UNDETECTED ON THE HIGH SEAS.