Protests against industrial fishing on the Marquesas Islands

Hundreds of citizens are protesting against a plan for industrial fishing in French Polynesia.

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00:00I'm going to kill you!

00:04I'm going to kill you!

00:31In 10 years, we're going to wonder what we're going to eat.

00:34If they come fishing and they get scared,

00:37while we no longer have the right to touch our fish,

00:40what are we going to become later?

01:01The people are sovereign.

01:03We must ask for the people's opinion

01:06before implementing any project.

01:09That is also democracy.

01:26There are 90,000 tanks that we can fish at home,

01:29so why stop us from fishing 3,000 tons?

01:33These guys are not very normal.

01:46The fish that will be caught is not intended for the local market,

01:49it is intended for the international, Asian and American market.

01:52They target the bigeye,

01:54which is a kind of tuna that is inscribed as vulnerable in the ICN,

01:57that is to say that it is highly endangered.

01:59It would be unfortunate for us Polynesians,

02:01the people of the sea,

02:03to participate in the destruction of the tuna population around the world.