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Wietse van der Werf - The Black Fish

London Real

Brian Rose

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4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2013

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Wietse van der Werf is the Founder & International Director of The Black Fish, an international marine conservation movement on a mission to end the industrial overfishing of our oceans by exposing and challenging illegal and destructive fishing practices.

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0:00.0

This week on London Real I have a one-to-one chat with Vitza Vandeworth, the founder of Blackfish.

0:09.0

The scale of what we're destroying in the oceans, which essentially is the largest biodiversity we have on this planet,

0:15.0

which is really the life support system we have.

0:18.0

The level of destruction is just astronomical and we're not seeing it, it's not visible.

0:28.0

We're talking corporations that are breaking the law, destroying the environment, destroying what essentially allows us to live on this planet, the ocean.

0:35.0

A strong movement of citizens that say we've had enough of this stuff, like we just don't stand for it.

0:40.0

Do you ever think your life's in danger about what you're doing?

0:42.0

I mean we have to be careful, you know, we're dealing with big interest.

0:46.4

When a species is this endangered, do we need more lobbying?

0:51.9

Do we need more lobbying? Do we need more... A fully trained drone pilot sits on shore is literally steering it and you're getting a live stream.

0:59.0

And who makes that call to go in and cut the nets?

1:01.0

I mean, is that your call? That is our case the Blackfish's call.

1:06.7

London reel presents Vitza van der Werf. Blackfish. If we see something that is totally, it's clear that it's illegal,

1:16.0

then we're willing to take that extra step.

1:19.0

This week on the show we welcome Vitza Vanderworth and he is the founder of an

1:25.3

organization called Blackfish and besides being a very cool sounding name

1:30.8

these guys have a very serious mission,

1:33.6

and that is to prevent the overfishing of our oceans,

1:38.9

which they believe could leave to very serious issues for us in the future when it comes to

1:45.1

ecology in general and what I really like about these guys is that they take action

1:50.4

they actually go out there and when they see some things that are not being done correctly,

1:57.0

some laws that are being broken, they don't mind putting on the scuba gear and cutting nets if that's necessary whether it's to free

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