Black

Sea sounds

Sea horizon

Dolphins

Underwater shot of fish.

Trawler

Boxes in cold store

Fish stacked

By catch shoveled

Boxes on pallets

By catch into sea

TITLE 

The Deadline

Covering over 70% of the world's surface the ocean contains an unfathomable beauty and abundance that has entranced humankind ever since we first looked into its waters.

Yet, now what we have long taken for granted is under threat.  Our oceans are have been overrun and fish stocks around the world are facing extinction. 

For hunting the seas and its last remaining resources is a new breed of pirate.

Finding fortune in far flung corners of the globe these pirates are ravaging fishing grounds and leaving a trail of devastation and destruction in their wake.

Hidden in official boxes their stolen catch is smuggled back to port to arrive in supermarkets and then onto our very own dinner plates.

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Map of Europe to Africa and zoom into Guinea

With its fish stocks depleted in Europe, suppliers  now have to find new fishing grounds .

But it comes at a price.

To feed its population the European Union spends 265 million Euros each year buying fishing licenses from countries like Guinea in West Africa.

Shots of boats

Wide of Esperanza and dolphins under ship’s bow.

And hidden amongst licensed trawlers is a network of pirate boats whose annual illegal catch from Guinean waters alone is worth 100 million dollars.

Hoping to expose the way in which these pirates get their stolen cargo back to Europe is the environmental group Greenpeace on board their ship, The Esperanza.

The first task for the fisheries campaign team will be to find where the pirates are hiding.

 Briefing Meeting

Stan (logistics organizer)

My theory would be that tomorrow that we base it from the ship, and we get down and we go a certain distance and we use the helicopter for further afield.

Pete (Captain)

Yeh, but do we want to systematically cover  the whole area?

Stan

If you were using it for just short term hops that would eat up your time really quickly.

Pete

Well it could be quicker than that, there is a lot in here. There is a deep gully going into that area.

So we need to have the boat teams, the drivers and crew ready and the heli team.

Sarah D

I am happy with that (off camera).

Pete

Thanks.

Rusty ships on sea.

Working on charts and list of boats.

Chinese flagged ships.

Scouring Guinea’s fishing grounds Greenpeace’s helicopter spots over 60 trawlers. Most of them are Korean and Chinese.

Some clearly do not want to be identified and use nets to cover the ship’s name, while others create confusion surrounding their identity by regularly daubing their hulls with a variety of names.

These simple tricks will make it more difficult for the campaign team to work out which boats have an official license to fish.

Sarah Duthie showing map.

ACTUALITY

Sarah Duthie

Roughly out here is 12 miles off shore, so if we find fishing boats inside that line then we know they are not fishing legally they are illegal boats... then the boats outside that area it’s not going to be as clear some will  be licensed and some won’t be.

Leaving Esperanza.

Crew looking at trawler.

But as Greenpeace don’t have a list of licensed boats the only reliable way of catching a pirate is to spot a trawler fishing without an official observer onboard.

Chinese trawler

Crew looking at Greenpeace boat

A significant proportion of the fish that ends up in Europe is caught be vessels from outside the European Union like this Chinese trawler, the Long Way 10.

Its nets have been hauled in and it is probably licensed as the catch is being logged by a Guinean observer.

Climbing on ship

ACTUALITY

Inspector

Yes come aboard. (Subtitle)

Fish on deck

Moving squid boxes around

The ship has had successful day fishing and the crew have sorted the different species into rusty trays.

Much of the catch appears to be squid and octopus.

Sarah and Pierre talking to Inspector

ACTUALITY

Sarah

Yeh. Do they have a license to fish?

Pierre

Do you have a license for the squid?

Inspector

No, There is only a license for fish not for the squid.

Man smoking

And whilst this fish may well end up in Europe there are few hygiene controls onboard.

Shots of toilet and kitchen.

Dead fish in net.

The catch is landed on the deck facing a dirty open toilet with a kitchen right next door to it.

Throw in some freshly caught fish and this ship becomes a perfect breeding ground for flies.

Frozen temperature dials

Cold room shots

Squid and other high value fish are taken below decks to a Cold store where the temperature controls have long since rusted away.

Here they are stacked and frozen before being repackaged into official European Union cardboard boxes.

Engine room and sea horses drying

Conditions are no better for the crew who spend their lives surrounded by filth, heat and noise.

Desperate to supplement meager incomes fishermen will even sell highly endangered species to countries in the Far East like these rare sea horses.

Man smoking.

Stuff being passed to ship.

Observers talking.

Young men pan of faces.

Pulling up alongside the Long Way 10 is a sister ship, The Lian Run 20 in a routine stop to swap parts and fishing gear.

Without official powers Guinea’s observers have no authority over what happens on and between these Chinese boats.

Here far from shore and hidden out at sea anything can be passed from one ship to another with no questions asked.

Cat eating fish.

Lian Run 20 leaves.

Without powers of arrest Greenpeace can only report the trawler breaking its licensing regulations by catching squid, and besides there are far worse offenders still to find.

Early morning ships on water

Hunting night and day systematically in groups trawlers are able to maximize their catch from Guinea’s rich fishing grounds.

Just sixty miles from the coast Greenpeace manages to track down one of the main fleets.

Mike, first mate showing position on chart

Mike

We are, after having traveled through the night off the coast,  we have come to just about here to sixty miles off the coast and we are just about here and there is a huge bunch of fishing vessels  over here and another huge bunch and we expect there to be lots more.

Birds flying over water

Crew with binoculars

Trawler transshipping

For fishing trawlers to keep chasing their catch uninterrupted they must transship their haul while still at sea into refrigeration ships, commonly known as refeers

Although inspectors watch the transshipment it is hard determine if the fish in the boxes has been caught by the ship doing the unloading. 

Helene Bours interview

ACTUALITY

Helene

A lot of illegal fishing vessels never go to port so what they do is, the fish they catch is transferred onto cargo vessels who take the fish to port. But between the fishing vessel and the reefer and the port a lot can be hidden so by the time the fish is actually landed it cannot be traced back to an illegal fishing vessel and it’s effectively laundered.

Boxes going into ship’s hold

While the trawler transfers its cargo something is spotted in the sea.

Pete and Helene on bridge

Pete Bouquet (captain)

They are chucking stuff in the sea there…Look, let’s go and have a look at that.

Boxes in water

Scooping boxes out of water

Talking about where boxes have come from

ACTUALITY

Adam

 One is Pulpo. Is that Octopus?

Miguel

Yes Octopus, this is fish frozen in the Atlantic Ocean Centre East.

Boxes floating in the water.

Finding the boxes is an important clue for the campaign team. The Spanish writing indicates Guinean fish is being funneled into Europe through  Spain.

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Lian Run boat coming to refuel.

To avoid the unwanted attentions of entering a port illegal fishing vessels prefer the anonymity of refueling at sea.

Tankers act as giant mobile petrol stations so trawlers can escape port inspections of their cargo and keep fishing even when their license expires.

Oil slick on water.

Graveyard boats.

By keeping their fleet at sea fishing companies get round the necessary official safety and maintenance inspections and allow their boats to fall into disrepair.

When a ship’s engines fail and rust takes over the owners abandon it along with their other trawlers in floating scrap heap graveyards.

Nolan interview

Rusty boat

ACTUALITY

Nolan

There’s no standard to which they have to aspire to. There’s no regulation that they are under. So they don’t have to have inspections of their ships. Like for example this ship is in class so it is under regular inspection at any time.

All the machinery is under inspection from a regular body. if starts to fall back then we have big problems.

With those ships they are not particularly worried. they have bought them cheap somewhere, they dumped them out here, they keep them here, they are not classified, they are not under insurance I would think, they just let everything go.

They don’t want to spend money on them.

So they plonk an unsuspecting I would guess third world, crew on them and off they go.

Shot of rusty ship and sign

Crew looking at camera

Man crossing on raft.

The Chinese character for happiness fades below this ship’s fallen communication tower. 

It’s an ironic symbol for the lonely fate of the crew left onboard as caretakers.

These men on two year contracts, without lifeboats and with their passports kept on shore, are held like prisoners waiting for the day of their release.

Esperanza and rusting ship

While the Esperanza continues its search for a pirate ship the crew take stock of their findings.

Sabine interview

Sabine

It was an eye-opener for a lot of us, to see these ships, these fishing boats these transshipments. 

And it is like with a lot of stuff you can talk about it, but seeing it makes a lot of difference and I do hope that we can spread that message and get it to Europe, that is where your food is coming from.

Inspectors arriving by boat

Inspectors climbing aboard ship

Helcopter taking off.

As the demand for fish continues to surge in Europe, pirates are racing to meet it by scooping up the world’s remaining stocks.

The only way to halt the activities of these illegal fishermen for now is to take their ships into custody.

Joining up with Greenpeace is a Guinean naval officer and a fisheries surveillance inspector.

Helicopter in air

Inspector checking boats.

Without air patrols or coastguard this is a rare  opportunity for Guinea to check if trawlers in the 200 mile fishing exclusion zone are conducting legal business.

Trawler

Group of ships transhipping

El Pis reefer

Wide of reefer and trawlers

Within minutes the helicopter team spots several trawlers all heading in the same direction.

They appear to be meeting up with a reefer ship which is in the middle of a transshipment.

It’s the El Pis.

The owners are Korean, but pays less than a thousand dollars to fly a flag of convenience from Belize.

A country that can do little to check what the reefer gets up to thousands of miles from its shores.

El Pis unloading boxes to other trawlers

Close up of boxes

Trawlers side by side

Close up shots of ship’s name painted out

The El Pis has brought European Union stamped boxes to be used for packagaging frozen fish.

Nearby other ships also distribute the boxes to waiting trawlers.

Some of them seem to be from the Lian Run fleet, but it’s hard to tell for sure with the name painted out.

Circling over the Lian Run  14 while fishing

Chines flag on Lian Run 14

Side of Lian Run with name covered by nets

After a brief sweep of the area the Guinean inspector spots another trawler. It’s fishing and not on the official list of licensed vessels.

The trawler is Chinese, and although part of the Lian Run Fleet, it is also keeping its identity a mystery.

It’s now up to the Guinean navy Officer to decide if the ship is a pirate and  whether or not to use his powers of arrest.

Mike and Sarah on the bridge talking to Helicopter on radio.

ACTUALITY

Huey

Yes, one of them is illegal but I don’t have any more in more in my vision at the moment.

Mike

So one of these guys is illegal.

Huey

Bridge, Bridge, Tweety.

Are you coming out to this one? Or what do you want us to do with it? Over.

Mike

We’re coming out

Boarding Lian Run 14.

Captain on bridge.

Boarding the trawler unarmed and without backup  can be dangerous, but this time the crew allow the inspectors onboard without incident.

The ship’s papers reveal the trawler is the Lian Run 14 and its most recent fishing license is years out of date.

Captain talking to inspectors.

ACTUALITY

Helene

He cannot fish without a license.

Zi Zi

Why aren’t your papers in order?

Captain (Subtitles)

Oh! The office in Guinea told me the license was issued  two weeks ago,

They told me there was no problem to go fishing.

I don’t have the papers, but I am not cheating.

Actuality talking to Captain of the Lian Run 14

Lieutenant Onivogui

No it is not possible

Helen

The Log book...

Remind him these are two officials. He is from the Guinean navy and he is from the fisheries surveillance so it is not like he can say no.

Pierre

He cannot lie now.

Lieutenant Zee Zee

He is not on the list, tell him it is very good for him now to do whatever we want and we will arrest him and we will take him in our ship, we will carry him in our ship and he will follow us.

Winch hauling in net on Lian Run 14

While the Guinean naval officer puts the Lian Run 14 under arrest it appears it’s not just the license papers that are out of order.

ACTUALITY

Sara Holden

Get the binoculars.

 Can you see up where the net is coming up through where the crane is, is that a seam or another net inside.

Net being hauled

Illegal  nets

Fish on the deck

By catch into se

The LIan Run 14 has a full catch and the naval officer discovers a concealed illegal meshed net used to trap undersized fish.

The taking of these fish caught before they can breed as adults ultimately threatens the future of Guinea’s fishing grounds.

However the needless destruction doesn’t stop there.

As the prize fish is sorted for the European markets, less valuable species and other sea life is simply shoveled back dead into the sea.

Cardboard boxes on the deck

Close up of boxes

Sara Duthie looking at boxes.

The inspectors also find a number of cardboard boxes stacked around the ship.

Each pile is stamped with the name of a different trawler from the Jiang Jing fishing company and carry an official European Union serial number.

It’s the evidence Greenpeace’s campaign team have been searching for and shows the way in which pirates use deceit to smuggle stolen fish from Africa.

Sarah D meeting with cardboard labels...

ACTUALITY

Sarah Duthie

They have got fishing boxes with all these different fishing vessels names so it shows how the whole family of boats, the Lian Runs are linked together and how they co-operate to have a vessel that is licensed to fish and its number marked on the boxes so this unlicensed vessel can put fish in Lian Run 13 boxes and they then go into the reefer and that’s a legitimate fish, it’s in the market place, it came from a licensed boat.

So we have a total of seven different names here that build the connection.

Lian Run 14.

Boarding Lian Run

As the arrested Lian Run 14 heads for the Guinean capital Greenpeace and the inspectors prepare for a night onboard the pirate ship.

Sights onboard the ship, navy man looking around, cockroaches, box going to Europe.

ACTUALITY

Lieutenant Zeze (Naval Officer)

When I get onboard, I saw... they, how do you call it, urine a port patrollar (Subtitle - the crew were urinating on the deck) it is very bad people are living there and they are eating there and they are smoking and they are throwing away everything.

Helene Bours

The European Union has very strict hygiene standards for fish products and these guys have a number to export, a number for sanitary criteria on their boxes and as he says they are peeing everywhere as he says and this fish is landed on the wooden deck in the heat.

By Ignoring regulatory standards fishing companies can maximize their profits by using pirate vessels.

And with little concern for the health and safety of the crew this is the bottom end of an industry that makes a very few people at the top very wealthy indeed.

Its 27 year old Mu duo feng first time at sea. He now stands to lose most of his wages to pay the ship’s fine.

Zizi talking about her conversation with young seaman.

ZiZi

He says he wants to cry, because I ask if you know if you have a license to fish. he says he does not know anything about this, he just follows the company. The company tell them where to go and they just go. They just don’t have any choice.

Sun in sky

Lian Run 14 under under escort

The following day The Lian Run 14 is escorted into Guinea’s largest port of Conarkry

The pirate ship has been arrested before, but previous fines and the seizing of cargo has not deterred its owners from sending it straight back to the same fishing grounds.

As she nears port there is an unusual change in the  sky.

Sabine looking at sun

Eclipse shots

ACTUALITY

Sabine

Heh have a look at this.

 Eclipse, sea and boat shots

As the moon begins an eclipse of the sun the waters below darken.

It is a reminder of how we take the sun’s light for granted to see the world around us and for us to keep an order on nature.

But hidden under the surface of the sea it is hard to imagine the destructive effect of years of constant trawling on marine life.

Nolan interview

Lian Run 14 going into harbour.

Nolan

The only way I can see out of that is to section off areas of the Ocean and it’s a total ban on fishing. We tried it in New Zealand in two places and the results were absolutely outstanding how much the fish stocks recovered

And I can see that is the only way to stocking up the ocean again. In other words it is like managing a farm. You don’t grow in every field every year.

Some fields lie fallow for a while and recover and we need to do this with the ocean and this is part of the reason we are here because you have all these illegal fishing boats coming in.

And it’s getting less and less and despite what governments say and what fishing companies say it is getting less. All the time it is getting less and less fish.

Question

And what happens if there is less fish?

Nolan

The Ocean dies basically.

Lian Run 14 docking.

MUSIC

Upsound

Night vision shots on bridge.

Target on radar.

Greenpeace’s next task is to find a reefer taking illegal fish to Europe. But word of the pirate’s arrest leads to transshipping being conducted under the cover of darkness.

Inflatable leaving ship.

When a group of ships show up on Esperanza’s radar the campaign team decide to investigate.

Stan talking to Sabine in boat as they to ships.

ACTUALITY

Stan

Slow right down a sec.  Just come to a stop.

Sabine

Close in?

Stan

Yeh, just go slowly towards it.

Ships in the distance.

Ships transhipping.

With cranes in full swing unloading crates Greenpeace have discovered a major illegal transshipment of fish with no Guinean observers in sight.

Greenpeace inflatable nearing ships.

ACTUALITY

Stan

If you could go to the back of the ship and shine a spotlight on it to see if we can get a name.

Stan talking to crew.

Stan

Go round the front.

Spotlight on ships.

Photoshots of El Pis.

Ships disperse in the night.

The spotlight causes panic and loudhailers shout in Korean for the ships to pull out.

In the centre of several trawlers is a refrigeration ship.

Its same reefer, the El Pis, that Greenpeace filmed earlier handing out European Union stamped boxes to fishing boats.

As ships scatter at full speed in all directions the campaign team gives chase.

But with nets hiding the trawlers identity there’s no telling if the boats transferring fish to the El Pis are pirates.

Wide empty sea.

Helicopter POV.

Radar.

The El Pis has run south and for three days Greenpeace search for a reefer with no luck.

Then comes a tip off about a transshipment in Northern Guinean waters.

It’s 12 hours sailing away with no guarantee a reefer will be there.

At seven in the morning the blips on the radar look hopeful.

Early morning

helicopter and hatches.

Sitting near the edge of Guinea’s 200 mile fishing exclusion zone are two trawlers, and in the middle a reefer.

More ships are waiting nearby and they have a familiar name to them...   

Sarah Duthie talking to Sara Holden.

ACTUALITY

Sara Holden

6 boats!

Sarah Duthie

Yes!

Question

That is good news!

Sara Holden

That is good news. Would have been a long way to come and find nothing there.

Shots of Binar 4

ACTUALITY

Mike

Can you come back with the phonetic spelling of the reefer.

Huey

Bravo, India, November Alpha, Romeo Number 4. registered in Panama.

Binar 4 shots

With its hatches open and pallets alongside being loaded with boxes of frozen fish the Binar 4 has been caught in the middle of a transshipment.

ACTUALITY

Huey (Helicopter pilot)

Bridge to Tweety.

They are covering up their hatches. Over

Sarah Duthie sitting

ACTUALITY

Sarah Duthie

Now it’s waiting to see what they do. When we came across the El Pis the other day and as soon as they saw us they ran and we will have to see what these guys do. We know they have covered up their hatches, so they are slowing their operations.

If they have nothing to hide why are they behaving like that  and that’s what you gotta wonder.

Binar 4 shots from helicopter.

Sarah Duthie looking at papers.

The Binar 4 then stops transshipping and begins to run northwards.

While the other trawlers all head south back to the fishing grounds.

The campaign team discover four of them are without licenses.

They decide to follow the reefer hoping to find out what cargo is in the hold.

ACTUALITY

Binar 4 Captain

Subtitle

We are a Korean reefer and just finished transferring fish boxes.

We are sailing to Las Palmas and we did not do anything illegal.

Why do you keep on chasing us?

Zizi

Subtitle

Greenpeace want to know what were you doing before you ran.

Binar 4 Captain

Subtitle

We just finished transhipping and our company called.

They told us stop transhipping  immediately and return to Las Palmas.

We are not running away.

As there were no inspectors monitoring  the transshipment from unlicensed vessels, Greenpeace  suspect the Binar 4 may be carrying illegal fish.

Sarah Duthie and Sara Holden conversation about the Bianr 4 and what is in its hold.

ACTUALITY

Sarah Duthie

It’s hard to know what boxes either the fishing boats had in their hold or whose fish and what the reefer has got on.

Sara Holden

Well we saw them changing over their boxes and giving each other boxes and the ship, one of the ones that we went on.

Sarah Duthie

Yeh, on the Lian Run 14 and I can’t remember which reefer it was... oh! it was when El Pis delivered those empty boxes. It goes on to one and they distribute them out.

Sara Holden

It’s a messy business.

Sarah Duthie

It is and that is what they rely on. Like if a single fishing boat has to go into port to unload and transship its stuff in the actual port then you can monitor it, but because it... its 200 miles away.

Binar 4 on horizon

Map

Survival suits and preperations. 

For the next 4 days The Esperanza follows the Binar 4 northwards up the African coast.

Her course is set for the Spanish owned Canary Islands .

At the port of Las Palmas, fish is distributed to European wholesale markets and from there on to supermarkets.

it’s an uncomfortable fact that some 20% of this fish comes from pirate sources.

Moff intrview painting rail.

Moff interview 

Question What do you think people can do then?

M.  Think for themselves for a start, educate themselves, be aware of what they are doing. When they put a mouth full of fish in your mouth, think about where it comes from.

M. The fact that people might have to change their lifestyle a bit is the main reason that people ignore ecological problems and pretend they are not a problem and remain in denial about it because they know the implications for their own behavior are probably quite far reaching.

M. What can people do?

Greenpeace suits hanging up

Greenpeace has informed the Spanish government of the Binar 4’s suspect cargo, but the campaign team still want to make sure the reefer’s arrival doesn’t go unnoticed.

Fax close uo

But then just 16 hours before arriving in port a fax turns up... it’s a transshipment license.

Sara Holden on phone

ACTUALITY

Sara Holden

This thing they have sent us in an exception a special authorisation where it specifies that the zone can be the High Seas, but it also specifies that there should be a navy officer and a fisheries inspector onboard and frankly I will eat my dog if there was a fisheries inspector and navy guy onboard 200 miles away.

Sarah Duthie briefing and shows paper license for Binar 4

ACTUALITY

Sarah Duthie

On this it says that the Binar 4 is licensed to transship. It doesn’t list the fishing boats it is allowed to transship with. And so the situation we are in is, while on Monday we went out with information to challenge the Spanish Ministry to actually deny this boat access to port because at that point what we had seen was definitely illegal, now because they have the license onboard it is not such a clear cut situation.

Mike

But there’s no going to be... at this stage there is not going to be any climbing?

Sarah Duthie

What you would need is the Guinean Minister to say no that is not a valid document and at the moment we don’t have the guarantee that he is going to say that.

They have got a piece of paper and we have got what we think. They’re... they got more than us at the moment.

So that’s where it’s at and we’ll let you know how it changes.

Pink moon shots

With night approaching and government offices shut in both Guinea and Spain Greenpeace’s campaign has received a major setback.

Sabine and Sarah talking about license

ACTULITY

Sabine and Sarah

Question. Were you surprised by today’s news

Sabine. I think all of us were. And it’s just so silly, it’s so obvious. If they have the papers why don’t they stick it into our face instantly and tell us to get off their tail.

It makes me really angry.

Sarah. Well I am going digging for more information.

Sabine. Ok. Oh! You forgot the mayonnaise.

Mike on mast

Binar 4 horizon

Next morning the Binar 4 nears the port of Las Palmas.

This is not the first time her arrival has caused a stir.

In October 2005 five million euros of cocaine was found hidden aboard.

Today her cargo appears to be legal.

Sabine

Sabine

It’s annoying. Very annoying. There’s a lot of dirty money just sailing in to Las Palmas.

Campaigners talking in campaing room

ACTUALITY

Sara Holden

Right what time is it?  tick tock tick tock

Off camera

Twenty five past eleven.

Sarah Duthie

We are still waiting to find out what happens with your phone call in another hour and we will make the plan three minutes before we start to implement the plan I reckon.

Greenpeace’s crew is still on stand by.

But they can’t only go into action until they receive recognition from Guinea’s government that the Binar 4 is carrying an illegal cargo.

Helene talking to minister.

ACTUALITY

Helene

Subtitle

Hello Minister. Yes this is Helene.

Other transhipping licenses  lists boats which the reefer can tranship with.  

This paper has nothing!

How can Spanish authorities check if this reefer has been transhipping with illegal boats?

Ok, when I argue in Brussels for more surveillance it would be better if Guinea takes a really strong stand against this reefer entering Las Palmas.

Please tell the Spanish authorities what you are going to do right now. 

With just one hour before the reefer reaches port and offloads the suspect cargo the campaign team can only hope that Guinea’s government act quickly.

Bridge shots

Binar 4

ACTUALITY

Port Authority

Binar 4 I need to speak to the Captain, are you the Captain?

Binar 4 Captain

I am Captain, soy captain.

Port Authority

Ok Captain, I need to know what type, I repeat, what type of vessel are you?

Binar 4 Captain

Type of vessel, reefer, reefer.

Port Authority

Binar 4 do you have any cargo onboard?

Binar 4 Captain

We have carton, 11,249 cartons, net tonnes two two four.

Port Authority

OK that’s all stay on channel 6 that’s a;;

 Sarah Duthie down stairs

Looking at e mail.

CU of email

After weeks of work collecting evidence it looks like Greenpeace have lost their campaign.

Then at the last moment an email arrives from Guinea’s government.

It states the Binar 4 has transshipped in breach of all regulations that its cargo is illegal and the vessel is a pirate ship.

Greenpeace congratulating eachother

ACTUALITY

Sara Holden

Yes, we win!

(congratulations off camera)

The unexpected announcement gives little time for the crew to scramble into action.

Mike informing crew of action plan

ACTUALITY

Mike

You climbing...

Ramon

Yes, yes,yes.

Mike

You’re going driving...

Mans

Ok

Boats on the water...

MUSIC

Painting of the Binar 4

Normally the Binar 4 would slip into port unannounced, but this time Greenpeace feel they have the license to tell the Spanish authorities and the world’s media exactly what’s onboard.

Painting the Binar 4 with STOLEN FISH graffiti

ACTUALITY

Sara Holden 

It is an industry which specialises in deceit and cheating people and stealing from them so they are not going to advertise themselves and we know what they were doing and we saw them do it

And now it is the responsibility of every body else to do their job because we did ours and we proved the point and showed what is going on and now it is the responsibility of all the governments to do their job.

Boarding of the Binar 4

If Greenpeace’s message isn’t clear enough they make double sure everyone knows what type of flag the Binar 4 should be flying.

The golden stars and skull and fish bones is a clear reminder of how pirates deceive the European Union to bring stolen fish to Europe’s public.

With reefers coming into Las Palmas everyday the owner of the Binar 4 is just one part of a giant international scam.

Reefer owner, talking to Greenpeace

ACTUALITY

Pierre (off camera)

How many boats do you have?

Mr Kim

Eh! Only this one. This is the smallest carrier in the Atlantic Ocean, this is the most smallest, very little, you see, you see, your see carrier there, over there.

I don’t know what you are doing now. What are you doing now?

(laughs)

Cleaning paint off boat.

Mr Kim looking

Captain looking at boxes

For its part in the illegal transshipment the Guinean Government fined the owner of the Binar 4.

But with few controls at sea and fortunes still to be made pirates will continue their trade.

However as individuals we can make a difference by thinking about what we consume and if we do decide to eat fish by demanding to know that it comes from a sustainable source.

And it’s these, our own personal decisions, that will ultimately decide The Deadline facing our Ocean.

Captions

CAPTIONS

The United Nations Geo 4 report states we are fishing

at four times the sustainable rate.

Leading scientists predict all fish stocks

will be extinct by 2050

 This is The Deadline

Credits

CREDITS

Narrator

Sarah London

Production Secretary

Elizabeth Madimia

Production Manager

Mark Wright

Associate Producer United Kingdom

Alex Finn

Associate Producer South Africa

Bronwyn Evans

Graphics

Mick Hawksworth

Dubbing Mixers

Adrian Walters

Sophie Davies

Technical Director

Lucifer Howse

Edit Assistant

Charlie Rusted

On-line Editor

Steve Gibbs

Music

James Perera

Cosma

Matt Coldrick and Matt Hillier

Entheogenic

Cameras

Sam Cole

Alex Finn

Phil Stebbing

Script Adviser

Paul Thompson

With Special Thanks

Carmen Belmonte

Mike Lerner

Greenpeace International

Teresa Perez Carrasco

Anita Bruz

Isabel Gonzales

Bubble Tv

Chris Phinikas

Martin Atkin

Bruce Goodison

Maria Carrion

Melanie Leblonde

Executive Producer

Tara Spielhagen Hale

Director Editor Producer

Phil Stebbing

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