Luca Pisani, a marine biologist at Aquatic Resources Malta, emphasises the importance of maintaining a strong working relationship with fishermen who welcome scientists like him aboard their ships.
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00:00Since we work with the government, fishermen can tend to be a little bit sceptical or timid
00:11when working with us because they worry that we will end up implementing policies or regulations
00:17or the government would end up implementing policies or regulations that might adversely
00:22affect their interests.
00:24In truth, at least us as the biological team, we do not provide any information on any forms
00:31of illegalities or control or anything to do with the control sector.
00:35We are purely interested in knowing what is caught and it is in everyone's interest, especially
00:40in ours, to make sure that we know exactly what is being caught so that we can get a
00:44proper image of the situation in the sea because only by truly understanding what is happening
00:51can we properly manage something, which is very important that we have a good working
00:55relationship with fishermen and at the end of the day, their interests are our own interests.
00:59If the sea isn't doing well, we want to know because if we can figure out and identify
01:05just where things seem to be struggling, then we can raise this with policy makers and decision
01:11makers so that they are more equipped to take proper course of action in order to try and
01:16protect the sea and the interests of the fishermen.
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