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...were turning up all over Asia...
...and no one knew how.
William believed
that the Taiwanese...
...had private docks...
...where no one would know
if they were finning sharks.
I needed to know
if William was right...
...if they were really finning sharks.
and went undercover into town.
In all our time filming sharks,
we've never been so scared.
There was a whole street
of shark-fishing operations...
...along a secluded bay...
...all with private docks.
These plants process,
pack and distribute shark fins...
...coming mostly
from Costa Rica and Ecuador.
They dry the fins on the roof...
...behind huge cement walls,
so no one can see them.
Virtually all of the fins
are shipped to Asia...
...making it out of Costa Rica...
...without being noticed.
This operation had fins from nearly
a dozen different species of sharks.
There were millions of dollars in fins
and dozens of illegal operations...
...that the authorities
must have known about...
...all controlled
by big business in Asia.
The fins were bringing Costa Rica
millions of dollars...
...and we were trying to stop it.
Now I knew
why we were being arrested...
...and I knew
we were in serious trouble.
I couldn't believe
how big the shark-fin trade was...
...especially in a country
that depends on ecotourism.
At another fin operation,
I found a trailer...
...sitting next to the building
and climbed on top...
...to film the fins in broad daylight.
There were at least 10,000 fins...
...drying on the roof,
and the employees ran out...
...trying to push the fins
out of sight of my camera.
Then they stormed out of the building
...so we jumped into William's car
and took off.
The corruption was real;
...we'd uncovered a huge
illegal-fin industry in Costa Rica...
...that the authorities ignored.
Taiwan donated
millions of dollars...
...to Puntarenas...
building major highways...
...bridges and buildings
and they didn't want any interference.
are killed each year...
...to support a billion-dollar
shark-fin industry...
...that Costa Rica was profiting from.
I knew we were in serious trouble.
We'd be lucky
to get out of Costa Rica.
William told me
not to go back into town;
...the shark-fin Mafia
would be looking for me.
Oh Sinnerman
where you gonna run to
Sinnerman
where you gonna run to
where you gonna run to
All along dem day
well / run to the rock
Please hide me
/ run to the rock...
When we got back on the boat...
...we heard from our lawyer
that the Coast Guard...
...was on their way to arrest us
and we would be detained indefinitely.
We had to get out of there,
so we pulled anchor...
...and made a break
for international waters.
/ said rock
what's a matter with you rock
- I think it's heading this way.
- How fast? 10?
Within minutes...
...the Coast Guard was chasing us
with machine guns...
...telling us that they will shoot
if we don't stop.
/t was bleedin'
/ run to the sea
/t was bleedin' / run to the sea
/t was bleedin'
I don't like guys waving machine guns,
demanding to come on board.
No, just the barbed wire right now.
It'll make it difficult for them...
But we knew we couldn't stop.
around the sides of the ship...
...so the Coast Guard couldn't
jump on board, and kept running.
We're not stopping.
Please hide me Lord
Don't you see me prayin'
Don't you see me
down here prayin'
Tell everybody to be very careful
if those guys got guns.
If they shoot,
they're gonna be really stupid.
Well, tell 'em to shoot.
We're not stopping.
He said go to the devil
All along dem day
So / ran to the devil
He was waitin'
/ ran to the devil
He was waitin'
Ran to the devil
He was waitin'
We did everything right,
...we did everything
we were told to do.
Uh, what do they want to do?
Start another international incident
over this?
Tell 'em we have to call our lawyer.
See if we can call Milton on the radio
and tell him they're chasing us.
Sinnerman you oughta be prayin'
Oughta be prayin' Sinnerman
Oughta be prayin'
All on that day
/ cried power
Power
Power
Power
Finally, we made it out
...and the Coast Guard stopped.
We continued southwest...
...to the Galapagos...
...leaving Cocos to the poachers.
The fins were worth
too much money...
...and there was a whole industry
behind it.
We knew we could never go back
to Costa Rica.
Four days from Costa Rica...
...and 800 miles later...
...we arrived
in the Galapagos Islands.
Sea Shepherd was invited
by the national park...
...to protect the marine reserve
from illegal fishing...
...and we were making our way
through the archipelago...
...to the main town of Santa Cruz...
...where we would meet with the navy...
...who control the park.
Although the Galapagos
is a marine reserve...
...some fishing has always
been allowed...
...to provide the island residents
with food.
The fishermen soon realized...
...that their underwater treasure
was worth a fortune...
...and started
shipping their catch overseas.
The government noticed
and started imposing quotas...
...to protect the resource...
...but the fishermen rioted...
...destroying national-park offices...
...holding national-park officials
hostage...
...and threatening to kill
the last giant tortoises.
The government gave in...
...and raised the quotas.
Ecuador is on the side
of conserving the Galapagos...
...but laws written down
and laws applied...
...are something very different.
And one of the problems
with the extraction of resources...
...is that we really often don't understand
how ecosystems work.
At this present moment...
...sharks are protected
within the marine reserve.
It is not legal to take sharks.
One of the very strong pressures
at this time in Galapagos...
...is to open long-lining.
Then you're really talking
about a shark fishery.
We know relatively little...
...about the general ecology
of the ocean...
...and to risk removing...
...a large number of predators
from the area...
...may have consequences...
...which we have
absolutely no concept of.
Shark finning is a very profitable
and cheap way...
...to make a lot of money...
...and it has the similar sort of ring,
financially...
...to sea cucumbers.
And even
with the humble sea cucumber...
...we're already changing situations.
I doubt very much
there'll be a sea-cucumber industry...
...simply because
the resource is gone.
A few men from some
of the cucumber fishing boats...
...they're actually
fishing here illegally...
...just came up to our boat
to ask if we had any advice...
...because they had two of their fishermen
that were bent.
One man had been bent
for four days...
...he'd had severe pain
in his shoulders...
...and it hasn't gone away;
another guy got bent today.
He went back down,
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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