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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Thomas Heeger, Christopher Joyce. Timecode In: 00:04:16. Timecode out: 00:24:23. Notes: Marine fish discussion. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Thomas Heeger, Christopher Joyce. Timecode In: 00:27:36. Timecode out: 00:36:11. Notes: Marine fish discussion. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Mondro Mehro, Christopher Joyce. Timecode In: 00:50:07. Timecode out: 01:07:08. Notes: Marine fish discussion. Equipment Notes: Decoded MS stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Radio Expeditions Log of DAT #: 16 Engineer: Marty Kuricas Date: February 2004 (0:06) MK: Ok this is tape slate for today, this is very, very hot for starters. Lets see its Thursday, February 26th, 1 o'clock in the afternoon, getting ready to go off and do interviews, this is MS Pair, Sonosax, low-cut filter out, Sony D-8 Recorder. Hong Kong ¿ Philippines, Radio Expeditions, winding down here, last day or two of interviews in Cebu, Cebu City. (0:49) TAPE STOPS AND STARTS (0:50) Background ambi, sounds like in a cab with English-speaking radio announcer, cars honk (2:26) Background radio switches from dj speaking to music (3:11) TAPE STOPS AND STARTS (3:19) MK: Check one, check one ¿two, check one, two, three, four, Ok we are at Dr. Thomas Hegar (sp?), outside of Cebu and these Marina Fauna Inc. (3:38) CJ: Aqua. And the name of this company is Aqua X? (3:41) Woman: Before, now it is Marine Fauna Incorporation. CJ: Ok, Marine Fauna Incorporation. (3:45) Ambi ¿ people walking around, woman singing to herself, man speaking in English, selling fish (4:19) CJ: So we're gonna take a little tour? Man: Yeah, OK¿ So what we see here¿ CJ: When you start can you say who you are and what you do? (4:26) Thomas Hagar: Yes, my name is Thomas Hagar and I'm the president of Marina Fauna Incorporated, which is a Philippine company and we started about two years ago with a German Partner, the Partnership Project, the so-called PPP project which means Private Public Partnership Project. That means, we got money from the government for training to highlight the development aspects in the trade for the entire Philippines and to set up this showcase facility. The goal of this was all to improve the quality of the fish in the marine aquarium trade. As you can see here, we don't keep stock of animals; actually it looks a little bit deserted. We have, we fill up the tanks, only when we have shipments and keep the fish about two or three days to acclimatize, to rest a little bit, before we ship them to Europe or to the US or to Canada. (5:22) CJ: Now, tell me why a fish from a tropical reef, like an aquarium fish, needs to acclimate? What happens? A lot of people don't know about how fish survive, how they live. They think oh, its just a fish ¿ we put it in a plastic bag, we take it¿ so what? (5:35) TH: Well the fish are coming from the reef, as you say, so they are just fully fed and they have the intestine and the stomach full of algae, or if they live a predatory life with other fish and the need to clean their intestines before you can ship them, otherwise they would excrete in their bags and that would decrease the water quality tremendously, they would even die. Because the fish is in the bag probably 40 - 50 hours, depends on the destination to which you are sending the fish. (6:10) CJ: 50 or 40 hours coming here? Or from here to destination? (6:13) TH: From the moment you put it in the bag, that means from here, to the final destination. When it reaches the airport, lets say Canada, then still the importer picks it up from the airport, takes it another two or three hours to the aquarium tank and starts slowly acclimatizing the fish there. Same in Germany, it's distributed mainly from Frankfurt up to Hamburg or Munich and even to Austria. This takes a... (Notes truncated)
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- 26 Jul 2010 - David McCartt
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- 26 Jul 2010 - David McCartt
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- 26 Jul 2010 - David McCartt