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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Marivic Pajaro, Christopher Joyce. Timecode In: 00:00:43. Timecode out: 00:06:42. Notes: Seahorse discussion. Subject 2: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Internal combustion motor. Timecode In: 00:08:39. Timecode out: 00:12:16. Subject 3: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Motor boat sounds. Timecode In: 00:18:37. Timecode out: 00:22:13. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Unidentified man. Timecode In: 00:26:27. Timecode out: 00:44:26. Notes: Guardhouse blessing ceremony. Equipment Notes: Decoded MS stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Radio Expeditions Log of DAT #: 8 Engineer: Marty Kurcias Date: February 2004 Dat 8 Hong Kong/ Philippines Jandiyan Seur, the blessing of the guard houses. Low filter on. Feb. 22nd. 0:45 M-I'm Marivic Pajaro. I started the long ago project seahorse in 94 when we started to arrive in 94 and have a project. Before that I was with a man supposedly her body guard, although eventually I think she became my body guard to go around with her some parts of the Phil on trade with seahorses, which was her project with Nat Geo. So we actually came here first in 93 b/c we heard this area had sev seahorse gatherers, targeting seahorses. You see the lanterns. So when we heard that we decided to come here, but aside from this area we also moved around in the Phil. Sibu, Palalan, we also went as far as Pangasinan, and I was taken in as Amanda's body guard after she looked around for a person who would actually be her translator interpreter rather than be her body guard. 2:03 CJ-Let me ask you what do ppl know about the seahorse fishing life? FX-Motor CJ-At that time what did ppl know about the seahorse fishing community and what they did? MP-Only for this area or for the dif parts? For this area we learned that it started way back in the 60's I think, when somebody was going to Sibu and here and they learned that seahorses were being bought. So before the trade began the children were just playing with seahorses in the shore, but they were also recognizing seahorses as a cure for stomach ailment and asthma, so that was the value they had for seahorses before. And when the trade began they were telling me about the seahorses being caught in basin fulls so that there were a basin full of them and they go out for a night and they go back and they were just very close by the fishing areas. But they meant so they didn't have to go far, even the children were able to collect just from close by the shore. So it became an important commodity with an econ value. 3:40 CJ-Who was buying the seahorses from them? Who was bring the money in to make it a valuable trade? MP-This person he was Bish of Fransisco, but he doesn't leave here anymore, he actually sent his children to college. FX-Interuption of motor sound. 4:08 MP-Not very many are able to educate their children up to the college level, but he was able to do this b/c of the seahorses. CJ-And who was he selling the seahorses to? MP-He was selling them to Sibu, and actually at that time the fishers, they themselves would bring them to Sibu. So this was not only the trader that was buying them b/c they can have a volume of it so they go straight to Sibu to bring all their catch, but now it wouldn't be profitable so it was not only him doing the trading but the others were doing it directly, selling it to Sibu. But he was the one who started trading here ?? of Fransisco. CJ-And so since then obviously a lot of ppl have gotten into seahorse fishing, maybe more than they used to, what's been the effect on the resource? MP-When I was doing the interviews with fishers here they noticed the change in the catch and it really was declining according to their observation. And a basin full of seahorses was down to 50, they could count it, whereas before they couldn't count it in a night. So now I gues... (Notes truncated)
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- 21 Jul 2010 - David McCartt
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- 21 Jul 2010 - David McCartt