- Silence

- The Moroccan authorities have just taken an unprecedented decision.

- For a period of four months, they will put their fishing area in a sort of fallow,

- biological rest that became compulsory to allow species to renew themselves.

- An initiative supported by the Moroccan fishermen themselves

- and that also concerns the industrial fishing foreign ships.

- Investigation by George Turlet and Gaetano Veiera.

- For those fishermen, the beginning of a long lasting and forced.

- In the Saharan bank that supplies most of fish to Europe, it is time to turn to biological rest.

- A measure with no equivalent that was taken by Morocco to try to save its only resource,

- that has been over-exploited for a long time.

- There is nothing. There are ten boats, it didn’t fish anything. 24 hours a day.

- A raked sea, looted by foreign fleets. Result: starvation wages.

- How much?

- Not much. Around 200, 300, up to 400 Dirhams.

- Nothing, 200 Francs for three months offshore and so little fish.

- In La'youne open outcry market, the catches looked a sorry sight, on that day.

- Here, for lack of expenses, the frozen supplies are stored into boxes.

- An over insecure situation.Everywhere, disaster villages and abandoned trawlers, closed factories.

- In this institute, many people wonder whether unlimited biological rest is not the only solution.

- Still, they try to elaborate a management strategy.

- Only with the aim to determine the maximum catches that can be fished

- without harming the cycle of regeneration and resources.

- And Morocco, supported by its own fishermen, that deserves to be highlighted, has just made another historical decision:

- the final banning for European boats, and first of all Spanish ones, to fish here.

- The fishing possibilities we grant to foreign nations means less work for Moroccan people.

- And less work for them, we don’t have any welfare system like in Europe.

- We don’t help anyone.

- People who don’t work are left to themselves.

- What hope do they have? To cross the Mediterranean sea to go to Europe.

- The management of its stocks, the guarantee for a shorter migration pressure,

- a bet on the future with, as a background, the hope

- that this sea will never look like the bordering immense desert.