- Silence

- It is a decision taken by the European Union, red tuna fishing is coming to an end

- next July 1st, to protect the species.

- We go to the last reservoir of tuna in the Mediterranean, offshore Malta and Libya,

- here fishing grew over extensive.

- The report by Anne Charline Lambard and Eric Jeannet.

- Ships on watch, ready to follow instructions coming from the sky.

- From up there, the planes spot the shoals of tuna, the ships must only follow the way.

- Offshore the Libyan coasts, the French, the Italians, the Spanish pull out all the stops,

- the area is the last reservoir of the species in the Mediterranean.

- Why are you in this zone?

- Just like that.

- Not very talkative, they protect themselves from curious people and when facing the camera, they are twice as good intentioned.

- Here, the fish are very small, we throw them into the sea

- and most of them haven’t reached maturity to reproduce themselves.

- And if we kill them, we sink ourselves.

- We won’t make any more money,

- when the French go right ahead.

- Responsible, caring for natural resources

- and, still, two hours later, two Italian ships behave with much less care,

- the minimum size of the fish is just a memory and even the European legislation,

- it is essential to rack wide areas,

- and never mind if it is necessary to resort to recce planes.

- In Bruxelles and Luxembourg, although tuna fishing supported by planes was forbidden,

- the practice goes on in the Mediterranean sea, nevertheless.

- Handcamera, a diver will come to the middle of the net to estimate the catch,

- there can be up to 75 tons of tuna.

- High-tech fishing, that gives little possibilities for the shoals to escape the nets,

- and the European quotas will not calm down the fishermen’s appetite, no country respect them.

- The European fleet is not properly checked.

- As a fact, according to official data, the French government recognizes that it took between 10 and 11 tons of red tuna,

- instead of the 6,000 allowed by the quotas.

- On the open sea, the European Union condones, it is her that encouraged intense fishing to answer the Japanese request.

- Technological, organized to an excess, this type of fishing undergoes no idle time,

- the catches are immediately taken to the shore to be fattened.

- Tuna is transferred to cages,

- just in both those ones 150 tons are dragged, it is worth around 900 000 Euro.

- This year, in this Maltese fattening farm, the cages are more seldom,

- the proof, according to Greenpeace that the reserve of tuna between Malta and Libya has been well cut into by extensive fishing.