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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Heather Hall, Christopher Joyce. Timecode In: 00:02:25. Timecode out: 00:17:20. Notes: Seahorse fishing discussion. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Amanda Vincent, Christopher Joyce. Timecode In: 00:23:31. Timecode out: 00:38:20. Notes: Impact of fishing discussion. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Amanda Vincent, Christopher Joyce. Timecode In: 00:44:36. Timecode out: 01:03:56. Notes: Impact of fishing discussion. Equipment Notes: DPA 4060 omni mics; Sonosax preamp. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Philippines Log of DAT #: 10 Engineer: Marty Kurcias Date: February 2004 (0:06) MK: Alright today is Feb 23rd, it's in the morning we are on Handuman (sp) in the Philippines off the island of Bohol at Project Seahorse. Chris Joyce and Marty Kurcias stars of this show, the joy boys. CJ: Yet another day of hard work in the tropical coral reef MK: Indeed and this is the DPA 40/60 omnipair, and this is just a slate and a mic check. And that sort of thing. TAPE STOPS AND STARTS (0:45) MK checking mic channels. Someone is strumming a guitar in the background. CJ cracks a joke, people laugh. Talking, laughing, guitar tuning and strumming, clapping. MK: On guitar it's Blind Coconut Joyce (laughter) TAPE STOPS AND STARTS (2:28) Heather Hall: My name is Heather Hall, the associate director of Project Seahorse from the Zoological Society of London. (2:25) CJ: So you first came here when and what for? (2:40) HH: I'd been working with Amanda for a couple of years on Project Seahorse more at the technical end of things doing some research on seahorse identification, and I came out here, really because it is hard to get a grasp on the issues unless you have actually seen it for yourself, when you have met the people, you've seen the seahorse fishing, you really understand what's going on because otherwise you can feel disconnected from the real issues. (3:08) CJ: So when you first came, ah, what were you expecting, and how has that changed overtime now that you see what life is like for people who are fishing for seahorses. (3:20) HH: What I've seen over the last few years is in some ways very encouraging and in other ways very discouraging, certainly, the lives don't get any easier in terms of the fishing. We've just been listening this morning to dynamite blasting going on and that is really disheartening, you know that there's a big bit of reef that just doesn't exist any more after this morning's activity. That's very depressing, and hearing the very low numbers of seahorses, that the number of hours that the guys are out at night is increasing, that side of things is discouraging. What's encouraging is seeing how people are mobilizing, how they're are working together from a position when I first came and talked to the time they would say, we know the problems, we know what's wrong, we just don't think we can do anything about it. And now you meet people from Kamada (sp) they are working together they are absolutely committed. They really know what they are trying to do and they see some ways of doing it. So there is action now that didn't exist before. (4:19) CJ: Can you draw for me sort of the route that seahorses take from this village all the way to the final consumer in the aquarium business. (4:33) HH: The seahorses¿(CJ: It starts after midnight I assume) It starts after midnight on a small boat with a man who has no concept of what an aquarium is. One of most surreal moments out here was trying to explain the purpose of a public aquarium, and what people would come, why people would come look at fish when the ocean is just out there trying to explain the north sea with all its freezing cold water and lack of visibility was quite entertaining. The, the basic catch method, whether they are going to be for the dry trade or the live trade is ... (Notes truncated)
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- 22 Jul 2010 - David McCartt
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- 22 Jul 2010 - David McCartt
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- 22 Jul 2010 - David McCartt