The Brutal Reality of China’s Fishermen | Squid Fleet | The New Yorker Documentary
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- In Ed Ou and Will N. Miller’s short documentary, crew members work tirelessly thousands of miles from shore to provide squid for the global food chain.
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Hello everyone! My name is Ian Urbina, and I am the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, which produced this amazing documentary film. I’ll be happy to answer any questions here (with input from the filmmakers Ed Ou, Will Miller, and Michael Hsu). Thanks for watching.
Thanks so much for this 🙏 What was the inspiration for this piece? And what made its production most difficult?
Hi Ian, all the visual material is real correct ? How did you film this ? Hidden cameras, you had the permits.... Extraordinary film by the way, congrats !!
@@garrusv Personally, my goal was to offer a counterbalance to the investigative reporting, which provides a critical assessment of the human-rights and environmental record of this fleet. We sought to offer a more intimate look at the experience of working in such a grueling job. The film also aimed to communicate why someone might choose to take one of these dangerous, often exploitative jobs.
Two challenges for the whole team were getting on the vessels themselves and figuring out how to tell the story in a way that didn't jeopardize individual people that we met during the reporting.
Hi Ian there's the Krill Vacuuming as well in the South Atlantic, there's problems brewing there. Are you going to cover it. There is a problem with factory fishing off the East Africa Coast and the North Atlantic too. Out Of Sight Out Of Mind.
thx sooo much to you and all involved for making this film...blessings to all...w/ a heavy heart...
I found this after watching Stepahnie Soo's video and wanted to learn more. Such a heartbreaking reality 😢
Same!
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Same here😢😢
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honestly that first shot alone was so incredible. great job! you have an awesome cinematographer working on this. give them a raise
Rotten Mango brought me here
Same here
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Same here lol
SAME!
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I can't believe this only has 130k views it is sad but its so well shot.
I read your article online via "LA Times" titled "They catch squid for the world’s table. But deckhands on Chinese ships pay a deadly price". I came across this video to see a "Chinese squid boat" up close. Both are excellent. RIP Fadhil and others.
Superb film, absolute masterpiece.
I totally loved the photography and the story telling.
Reading the article before made the difference on the deep understanding of the film.
Fabulous.
Thank you for telling the world.
Squid will no longer be at my table.
wether you eat/buy squid, they will fish them!!
No joke, I’m in. No more squid for me either. No way I would be able to eat it without thinking of what these people go through.
@@psystealth Of course, because people who have your mindset exist. They will continue buying it because "well they will still fish them" but in reality if enough people cared about morality, they would stop purchasing it, and there would be no market for this.
@@psystealth Overtime, as demand decreases then supply will also decrease
One person can make a difference ❤
who else is here because of Stephanie?
ME
Me
Me
HAHAHAA OMG
let’s not do this. it feels disrespectful to just make it about her
Just curious, is anyone else here after Stephanie Soo/Rotten Mango made a podcast on this?
Me lol
Lol this is not real humans and is a funny social gathering LOLZ! nothing immoral or inhumane just fun times lol lol lol
Definitely me!
@@Chilloutlilbro ???
Yep
This is slavery!😢 China needs a union that fights for employee rights. This is unacceptable and heartbreaking 💔
Entire china is a slavery country under communist
You just know they will never have that
China have more regulated and active unions than USA. Their agenda and pressure on the government for better labor conditions has an line of communication way better than in the USA. No other country has more anual strikes than China.
it's the CCP rights kidding me they threw you overboard with a brick but you let you become squid food the Chinese Communist Party has over 300,000 fishing vessels just think of that now? They could wipe everything out if they wanted to
lmao union in a comunist dictatorship 😂😂😂😂😂
The long shots where you see dozens and dozens of boats is wild
The filming is outstanding.
This is terrifying for the fishermen trying to make a living and the squid.
I was born n raised in what was then the country's largest commercial fishing port. SIXTY YEARS AGO, when I was a small child, Russian, Asian, n Scandinavian countries sent huge fishing factory fleets to what was the richest fishing grounds in the world, the Grand Banks, in the North Atlantic. American fleets could not compete against these factory fleets that could do all the processing of their catches at sea. Today the Grand Banks is a barren wasteland n my proud hometown fishing fleet is no longer, throwing generations of fishermen permanently out of work.
Looks like here in Argentina must buy a few warships and end this madness in front of Argentina coast
And the west side of Africa
The cod did not stand a chance.
Greedy ba$ turds
Galilee? New Bedford? Which one?
More people need to watch this !
Makes me awfully sad how we humans are destroying the world and destroying Mother Nature…
Not the world just Asians, they will destroy this planet.
Not humans, Chinese
Americans don't wipe out the oceans natural resources
@@photheloveofmoney-te2el That's why they're in so much debt and no manufacturing. Some one has to pay the price of export profits. You think Chinese are doing this to destroy? It's to survive, at all costs, in this captalist world.
@@GlobgobGabgalab did u not watch the video??? 🙄 literally said china is the global exporter, 70% are exported worldwide including US and EU. So yes, YOU are the problem destroying the world and mother nature, on top of that you lack critical thinking skills
*Commercial sea scallop fisherman here, out of Cape May, NJ. We fish for squid **_a lot_** different than this.* Also, he said "your mind is in the sky, because your feet are never on the ground: if your mind wanders when you're working at sea, you _will_ get hurt.
The Chinese fishing fleet have been fishing near other countries such as south America. They will continue to fish in other countries waters unless they are stopped. Countries must protect their waters.
They are greedy
@@nidagus2448 They are hungry
these ships are in the international water, if within a country economic zone these ships will be seized.
The Argentine coast guard is doing everything possible to combat the Chinese fleet of squid jiggers. They have already captured several boats fishing for squid in Argentine territorial waters.
Came here after Stephanie’s video😢
Thank you for all the motivation I needed to never order calamari appetizers ever again! It's delicious deep fried but if that's all I have to do to wash my hands clean of all the evil, violence and corruption that has become inherent and all pervasive in the squid fishing industry . . . I will gladly pay that price and make that exchange a 1000 times over. But now you have me scared about looking into the shellfish industry because lobster crab and shrimp are my favorite food . . . That is a much more difficult bargain . . . Also to ANY AND ALL looking into this industry for employment, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do yourself a potentially life-saving favor and triple check the legal writing and specific language used in your contract! If you're illiterate and that means paying someone who can read to do it for you, it's worth it but make sure it's someone you can trust like a family member or someone you've known for most your life that hasn't tried to cheat you.
Sigh. I am off the calamari too. More awareness needs to be spread.
Beautiful prose. Thanks for bringing attention to this.
i knew it was going to be awful bot wow. i'm not sure I even have the word for this. we are the only problem with the planet.
Get off it then.
I love the typography of The New Yorker. 😅
Absolutely breathtaking. Every aspect of this.
Thanks Rotten Mango for opening my eyes to this. Not that I eat squid. But i certainly NEVER will now
Thanks to Sea Shepherd and the crew of the Ocean Warrior
China is so dedicated this is crazy and sad at the same time
I love so much the video because it shares import information about fishery. Is it possible a subtitle in Spanish? I need to share with my people, but they don't understand English.
Thanks Stephanie, you brought us all here. Squid is out the bag.
The intro is just fantastic
What makes one squidboat more brutal than the others?
i want to cry because of that one squid, that spewed out ink, when it was pulled up.
it wanted so badly to scare away whatever attacked him
Seeing how people treat the world and the masses don't care hurts. I wish it could've gotten away as well. This isn't sustainable and I'm sure they probably just let them suffocate. I wish china cared. I know all countries aren't blameless but China has no regard as a government for the environment or the people. Make money by any means basically.
very well done, our dystopian future depicted very well here.
This was way more intense than I thought it was going to be.
Thank you Rotten Mango 🥭
I had to hear the hissing myself 🦑
Great story telling thank you
thank you for telling this story.
Such amazing cinematography and colouring
lobsters and salmon are also high in demand but they are still plentiful because we use proper sustaining methods and limit the amount we catch.
Wow, this is beautifully done!
YT knew I watched Rotten Mango 👀
Thank you for Enlighten me 💔
The story about the alien ships whilst watching this was moving. It's incredible how we think this kind of resource gathering is totally sustainable.
its a bit sad that this doesnt get more views...its shot so well and cinematography is insane, felt like i was watching a movie!
beautifully done
It is subtle but also very obvious; the narrator's story about his father is actually the experience of the squid !!
Excellent documentary the oceans will stop producing but before that will be the rivers we are very close
I feel bad for the squid personally
I already don't eat Pork, Red Meat, or Chicken....but now this is making me not want to eat seafood =O
What it’s not making you want to eat Chinese? 😅
@@Dr.Rabbit7346but they are so tasty
7:20 This Poor animal is saying “Help me I have been abducted by Aliens”
Why did it end the video like this now its feels like it needs a part 2
People have to see this!
5:41 this panorama of misery and destruction is breaking my heart.
please spread this video for awareness
This hurts watching this….
Squid don’t make that splatter sound hahah😂😂 nice sound effects
take everything, take it all, take, take, take
I don't understand how this is sustainable. 1:39
its not
It’s not, the Chinese people and agencies and people across the world that act like this do not care or worry about sustainability. There is a lot of selfishness and greed in this world, it is especially concentrated in those at the top with tons of money and power, so unfortunately it will continue to get worse without some sort of revolution.
I see them when flying in to Bangkok at night like green pins in a water bed cushion (not this specifically)
Bold of you to assume that I have always eaten well.
First, the locusts completely wipe out their immediate surroundings, then they move on to the next opportunity.
anti sino bot, you are the locust that eats the food that leads to this market flourishing.
Does anyone know the name of the font they used?
Why does the shop not sell Vapes?
As a squid myself, I approve this message.
Why is there a terrified dog @ 7:20
Is there another video in English?!?
wow!!!! this is insane!!!
Why do they fish like that instead of using nets?
I'm assuming its to avoid bycatch.
Horrible reality...... Perfect setting for some lovecraftian horror.
Excellent. But the next time you make us read a documentary, please make the writing a little bigger? 😒
only 1080p?
buh
Tackletothepeople brought me here
And people wonder why there is no fish to catch. Give it 10 yrs and it will be much worse.
Over fishing is actually the problem 😅
These guys should be making 100,000 usd a year with how much money they are pulling in.
I came here after watching rotten mango😊
Me too
Wow. You really brought the brutality to light there. Expensive cigarettes. This must have been edited by the CCP.
Wow, what an amazing squid boat, with completely automatic fishing gear...👍
when it showed the hundreds of boats my jaw dropped.
its crazy to me, cause squid is gross a f as far as food goes
In fact many crew member in long line fishing ship dead, im part of crew member for 2 years
One of China's Industrial fishing boats can catch 25% of Britain's allotted Fishing Quota in one Fill..
This is horrific. Why do we sit by and do nothing?
So scary
And now they are the alien spacecrafts abducting life.
This is how Soylent Green happens. This is a documentary about the death of the biosphere.
because this is Taiwan's squid fleet. thats why the producer can go on board to film and document with intention to make it Chinese. both parties win.
I feel so bad for the squid
Never had sqid or calamari and most definatly never will now.
Why is this a Taiwanese ship? It has traditional Chinese writing on it and marked Kaohsiung, a city in southern Taiwan.
This is why I don’t eat seafood, I find this industry much more inhumane and destructive than the beef industry which is saying something
Which is why i catch all my own seafood now
I admire your conviction but choosing to not consume a food group like our fishy friends will do nothing to stop this machine unfortunately.
@ no, I as one person won’t make a change. I wish more people were able to afford or cared enough to buy sustainable foods
@Shakicast welcome to the fairytale. ❤️
Lurongyu 2682 is the scariest horror story I've ever read. Unfortunately it's all a true story
Like a friend of mine once said........
These people are the end of the world 🌍
why no women on the ship?
No one cares about fishing…. It’s just food
What about the people trapped on slave boats
It’s not about the fishing it’s about the human exploitation
dude what? care to explain your point
Poor OCEAN THIS COMMENT IS GONNA BE REMEMBERED YEAR 2050 ❤
Squids are the opposite of endangered... their populations are booming because of the warming climate and the absence of natural predators such as Tuna. It is environmentally healthy to fish as much squid as possible. They together with jellyfish are in danger of overwhelming the oceans
silly comment as we have wiped out tuna, shark all predatory fish populations so your answer is wipe out all else, if you did that then it will be sea worms and chips. solution is stop over fishing the predators as they will bring back the balance
The fishing isn't the problem confronted here, it is the poor working conditions and forced labor of the crew members. I don't care about the squid, but the industry is rife with human exploitation.
Its a reality - China has a super huge fishing fleet and wherever they go they decimate the area - and these Chinese fishing boats are also quasi- military boats and each one can be outfitted with missiles and weapons - so basically its a 1200 ship fleet Chinese military operation and it would take a huge amount of warships to defeat them! Beware!