de vis wordt duur betaald

Remy Vlek, Netherlands, The, 2001

Producers synopsis

For the West African coast European fish vessels are more and more on the run for a big catch in the richest fish waters of the world. Giant floating fish factories are fishing big stocks of fish. The EC is supporting these activities with hundred millions of dollars. The very poor countries like Senegal and Mauritania are completely dependent on this EC money, to diminish their debts on the World Bank. The seas of Africa are overfished and the local population is not getting their share anymore. We see in this film a portray of a big Dutch fishmultinational and their supertrawlers. We see also a portray of African fishermen. Their fate is that the fish stocks are getting rare while the population is at the same time more and more dependent on fish because of desertification of the local area. Also the so called Seals Nursery multinational from Pieterburen Holland plays a strange card in this story by stimulating the Dutch fisheries and not supporting the local African environment.