0:00:02 > 0:00:03Andy Giles is a Cornish fisherman
0:00:03 > 0:00:06who swapped his state-of-the-art trawler for a dugout canoe
0:00:06 > 0:00:08on the high seas off Sierra Leone.
0:00:08 > 0:00:10For a minute there I thought we were goners,
0:00:10 > 0:00:13I thought "Oh, my God, here we go", I thought I was going to go for a swim.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16He saw how the livelihood of a small fishing village was being threatened
0:00:16 > 0:00:19by illegal trawlers stealing their fish.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22- They're firing catapults at us now. - Now he's returning...
0:00:22 > 0:00:23Andy!
0:00:23 > 0:00:25..to a country transformed.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27They've got more than double.
0:00:27 > 0:00:28So happy.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34And he finds himself on the front line of a war against illegal trawling.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57Trawlerman Andy Giles fishes the seas off England's south coast.
0:00:58 > 0:01:03In 2011 he swapped his home comforts for a dug out canoe
0:01:03 > 0:01:05and a tiny village in Sierra Leone.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08'Sierra Leone was tough, it was such an eye-opener,
0:01:08 > 0:01:11'it was like going back in time.'
0:01:11 > 0:01:14They literally take their life in their hands every time they go to sea.
0:01:16 > 0:01:17Oooh, not right at me!
0:01:17 > 0:01:22His experience in west Africa made him take stock of his own life in Cornwall.
0:01:22 > 0:01:27'If I've changed, I've probably become more compassionate towards
0:01:27 > 0:01:30'the children and stuff, I don't do so many days at sea
0:01:30 > 0:01:33'so I can spend more time with the kids and watch them grow up,
0:01:33 > 0:01:35'because they're only young once.'
0:01:35 > 0:01:36I'm really glad I did it,
0:01:36 > 0:01:39and I'm really looking forward to going back out and seeing the lads.
0:01:39 > 0:01:44Because soon, Andy will be returning to Sierra Leone for the next chapter
0:01:44 > 0:01:46in a story that began 18 months ago.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55Back then, Andy's life as a fisherman had rarely taken him far
0:01:55 > 0:01:57from the coast of Cornwall.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Coming down, mate.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03He's the proud owner and skipper of the 100-tonne trawler, the Guiding Light.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10'I've not always been a fisherman.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13'I worked in a shop when I was younger,
0:02:13 > 0:02:17'albeit a fish shop, but I didn't like it.'
0:02:17 > 0:02:21I decided to go the other route and go catching the fish.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24You couldn't do the job if you didn't love it.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27It's just a way of life, I think, more than a job to me.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31When you put the nets away in the morning,
0:02:31 > 0:02:33you don't know what you're going to catch.
0:02:33 > 0:02:34It's a nice surprise.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37I still get excited now, a little bit, which is a bit strange
0:02:37 > 0:02:39and funny, I suppose, but...
0:02:39 > 0:02:41Costing three-quarters of a million pounds,
0:02:41 > 0:02:45Andy's trawler is designed to take the strain out of fishing.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51On a good day, he can land more than a thousand pounds' worth of fish.
0:03:00 > 0:03:05The monkfish, that's big value fish. Sea bass, big value fish.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07Quite happy with that, really. It's all right.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Once on board, the catch is gutted,
0:03:14 > 0:03:17sorted, washed and put below decks,
0:03:17 > 0:03:19ready for market.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22The Guiding Light is equipped with the latest technology
0:03:22 > 0:03:24to locate and hunt down the fish.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29There are also a few home comforts on board.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32Obviously, a nice chair, telly and the internet,
0:03:32 > 0:03:35it's all nice to have, because you're spending a lot of time here,
0:03:35 > 0:03:40so, keep the boredom factor away as well, obviously.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44In a few days' time, Andy will be leaving his trawler and saying goodbye
0:03:44 > 0:03:48to the quiet Cornish village where he lives with his family.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52Count them. One, two, three, four, five, six.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Are you counting all the fishies?
0:03:54 > 0:03:56He's heading off into the unknown
0:03:56 > 0:03:59with only his fishing skills to fall back on.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02It's a question of, "Can Andy hack it as a fisherman
0:04:02 > 0:04:05"when everything's taken away from him?" Can I do it?
0:04:05 > 0:04:08I don't know, I'm going to have to wait and see. Hopefully I can.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Sierra Leone, West Africa -
0:04:13 > 0:04:18a country of five million people on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21This is one of the poorest countries in the world.
0:04:21 > 0:04:27Its large coastal population relies on one thing to stay alive - fish.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32Every day, thousands of subsistence fishermen put to sea
0:04:32 > 0:04:37in wooden canoes in a daily struggle to feed their families.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Now, their way of life is under threat.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42Trawlers from as far afield as China
0:04:42 > 0:04:45are illegally plundering the coastal fishing grounds
0:04:45 > 0:04:48and leaving very little for the locals.
0:04:48 > 0:04:54Much of the country's fish finds its way to the tables of Europe and the Far East.
0:04:54 > 0:04:59Yet more than a third of Sierra Leone's children are chronically malnourished.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14Just looks like there's nothing here at all.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17There's no buildings, there's no power lines,
0:05:17 > 0:05:21there's no... there's nothing, nothing at all.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23Andy is heading to the remote south of the country
0:05:23 > 0:05:26and a small fishing village called Mania.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Whether they'll have painted faces and everything
0:05:30 > 0:05:34and dance round the fire in loincloths, I don't know,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37but I'm expecting the worst at the moment, to be honest,
0:05:37 > 0:05:42so... Not that that's bad, but totally different, totally alien to what I'm used to.
0:05:44 > 0:05:45You sure someone lives here?
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Cos I don't think there's anybody that's living here, to be honest.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Hey.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Andy's hosts for the week will be Kaba Cane
0:06:05 > 0:06:08and his cousin Ishmael.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11- Ishmael?- Yes. How are you?- I'm good.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13- Are you good?- Yeah, yeah, I'm good. - OK.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15- Plenty of fish?- Yes.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19Mania village is home to a few hundred people who, like Andy,
0:06:19 > 0:06:21make their living from the sea.
0:06:21 > 0:06:23'Everybody from the village seems to have turned up
0:06:23 > 0:06:26'to see who's the white man in the boat, so...it was very nice.'
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Kids wouldn't leave my hand go.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32'Then one would let go and then another one would fill in,
0:06:32 > 0:06:36'so it's...very, very friendly, to say the least.'
0:06:36 > 0:06:39I didn't expect that, to be honest.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41I have friends!
0:06:43 > 0:06:46For the next week, Andy will be living with Ishmael's family.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49So come with us, come and see.
0:06:53 > 0:06:54- The bed.- Yeah.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58- So, welcome.- OK, thank you very much.
0:06:58 > 0:06:59And these are all your kids?
0:07:04 > 0:07:07- You're sure they're not all yours? - Yes.
0:07:07 > 0:07:12He'll be joining one of Mania's ten boat crews
0:07:12 > 0:07:14and he's keen to get started.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Can you show me the boat we're going to go to sea on?
0:07:19 > 0:07:21OK, cool.
0:07:22 > 0:07:27Until now, Andy has no idea what kind of boat he'll be fishing from.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36- OK. Engine, this?- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:07:36 > 0:07:41Andy will be putting to sea in what is, in effect, a hollowed-out tree.
0:07:44 > 0:07:45Big sun, so we'll see the net.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49So I see the boat, it's got a hole at the back
0:07:49 > 0:07:52and it's stitched together with twine at the back.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00- Yes, the breakers here, yeah? Pushed the bottom of the boat in?- Yes.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04The breakers which damaged Kaba's canoe mark the point
0:08:04 > 0:08:07where the river meets the ocean.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11Often rising up to four metres high, they form a daunting barrier
0:08:11 > 0:08:15to the open sea and the best fishing grounds.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18How safe is it to go through the breakers in a boat?
0:08:18 > 0:08:20- Are you expecting me to do this? - Yes.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25I wouldn't like to go through the breakers in my boat.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27It's not easy. It's not easy.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32Ishmael and Kaba have picked up on Andy's nervousness.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37- In a boat like this?- Yes.- Zero.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42ISHMAEL CHUCKLES
0:08:44 > 0:08:46In a boat, but not this sort of boat.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48- It was not this?- No.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Can I swim?
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Yeah. I can swim, yeah.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57It's beginning to dawn on Andy that all his fishing experience
0:08:57 > 0:08:59might not mean much out here.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04I don't suppose they have much faith in me at the moment
0:09:04 > 0:09:06and you have to prove yourself when you're a fisherman.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10Anybody can say "I'm a fisherman." I'll have to prove myself.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12I don't want to let anybody down or anything,
0:09:12 > 0:09:17so... We'll have to see later on and see where it takes us.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24Kaba and Ishmael are also having their doubts
0:09:24 > 0:09:26about taking Andy through the breakers.
0:10:01 > 0:10:06Andy is going to have to get used to having fish for dinner...
0:10:06 > 0:10:07and lunch...
0:10:07 > 0:10:09and breakfast.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14It's very spicy.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18- Eat.- I am eating, I'm eating.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20I have a small appetite.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28As Andy reflects on his first day in Sierra Leone,
0:10:28 > 0:10:30his semi-detached house in Cornwall
0:10:30 > 0:10:32is beginning to feel a long way away.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38We had tea, rice and spicy fish which I wasn't too keen on.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42It's getting late, there's no electrics,
0:10:42 > 0:10:45there's no lights on anywhere, there's no TV. There's no...
0:10:45 > 0:10:49There still seem to be people milling around
0:10:49 > 0:10:51but a very, very strange place to be.
0:10:51 > 0:10:52A very strange place.
0:10:54 > 0:10:58We'll see how tomorrow goes and hopefully it's OK.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14Overnight the village fishermen have been busy.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19No sleep?
0:11:22 > 0:11:24- 1.30, we move.- When do you sleep?
0:11:34 > 0:11:37Little has changed in this fishing community for centuries.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42But the way of life here is now hanging in the balance.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49The rich fishing grounds along this coast are supposed to be protected.
0:11:49 > 0:11:54There's a five-mile exclusion zone to keep out trawlers,
0:11:54 > 0:11:58but increasingly, big foreign boats are fishing illegally close
0:11:58 > 0:12:01to the shore, with tragic consequences for the villagers.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Tragic story. It's...
0:12:38 > 0:12:41You know, not only are you fighting for a living,
0:12:41 > 0:12:42they're wrecking everything for you.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44We suffer.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Everybody is suffering because of these trawlers.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50I can't see the trawlers now. They're not here. When are they here?
0:13:00 > 0:13:04How anybody deals with having your loved ones, nephews,
0:13:04 > 0:13:10uncles, be killed at sea is shocking, really. They're losing life.
0:13:10 > 0:13:14It just seems a free-for-all here for the big trawlers.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24Early next morning Andy is about to see the problem first-hand.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26KNOCKS ON DOOR
0:13:29 > 0:13:35So Kaba's just knocked, woke me up at three o'clock
0:13:35 > 0:13:37and there's trawlers on the beach.
0:13:43 > 0:13:44They do sound close.
0:13:46 > 0:13:48I can actually hear the engines.
0:13:53 > 0:13:54Where we were yesterday.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58I would say he's closer in than we were yesterday.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02Kaba and Ishmael were about to go night fishing when they spotted
0:14:02 > 0:14:06the two illegal trawlers working under cover of darkness.
0:14:08 > 0:14:10No.
0:14:10 > 0:14:11You can't go now?
0:14:15 > 0:14:18You can't go because he's there. There's another one here.
0:14:18 > 0:14:23The other one here, he's turned his lights off. He is being sneaky.
0:14:23 > 0:14:27Sneaky, lights. He's even closer. Is he...?
0:14:27 > 0:14:31The trawlers make it too dangerous to go out fishing.
0:14:31 > 0:14:32KABA SIGHS
0:14:43 > 0:14:46A whole night's work has been ruined.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58The next day the village needs fish and the trawlers seem to have gone.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04It means that it's time for Andy to have his first taste of fishing
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Sierra Leone style.
0:15:06 > 0:15:07So what's this for?
0:15:09 > 0:15:10- What's it made of?- Plastic.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13- Plastic?- Yes.- This looks like an umbrella.- Yes.
0:15:13 > 0:15:18- An umbrella and plastic.- Umbrella, OK. And this is a plastic bag here?
0:15:18 > 0:15:19- Yes.- OK.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21I did a little bit of sailing when I was younger
0:15:21 > 0:15:23- so I'll see I can remember, OK? - OK.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27- You can remember?- Yes.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33- It's hot today, isn't it? - Oh, it's hot.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36It's about 30 degrees today, at least, I would think.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Kaba and Ishmael are setting a punishing pace.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46Andy is struggling to keep up.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55It's easier standing up to be honest.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59Sitting down does your knees in, your legs in and your elbows in.
0:16:01 > 0:16:02See the road?
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Ah, the road, the road through, the gateway, yes?
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Andy's about to tackle the breakers for the first time.
0:16:12 > 0:16:13Yes?
0:16:15 > 0:16:16OK.
0:16:20 > 0:16:25They've already being paddling for two miles and Andy's exhausted.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28But the only safe way through the breakers is at speed.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57ANDY LAUGHS
0:17:03 > 0:17:04Oh, dear.
0:17:08 > 0:17:09The breakers are behind them.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Now it's time to fish.
0:17:15 > 0:17:20The lines are set and all they can do is wait.
0:17:49 > 0:17:50That's not a good start.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55We spent all morning baiting hooks up and cutting bait
0:17:55 > 0:17:57and then to catch nothing, it's just...
0:17:59 > 0:18:03..poor. Very, very poor. I feel for them, really.
0:18:05 > 0:18:10If Ishmael and Kaba don't catch any fish, their families will go hungry.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19I don't know, I'm just getting more demoralised.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22I just hope that we catch a couple of fish in a minute.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24There's still a few hooks to go so...
0:18:30 > 0:18:32The foreign trawlers have done their damage.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36As a trawler man himself, Andy knows the impact they can have.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40These are, unfortunately, prime trawling grounds
0:18:40 > 0:18:43so the trawler's probably been here in the night,
0:18:43 > 0:18:45two or three boats here,
0:18:45 > 0:18:48and what they haven't scooped up
0:18:48 > 0:18:52they've chased away so that's why there's nothing here.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00But the trawlers didn't get everything.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02So we have ONE.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04That's not going to go very far between 30 people.
0:19:14 > 0:19:19With the tide turning, the breakers are rising. It's time to head home.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29Their safe passage now depends on a sail made out of plastic bags
0:19:29 > 0:19:30and umbrellas.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44Skipper Kaba has to judge exactly the right moment to make his move.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51Kaba is using the tiller and the sail to keep the dugout on course.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55He has to try and stay ahead of the breakers.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04One false move and the canoe will capsize.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21For a minute there, I thought we were goners.
0:20:23 > 0:20:24But a breaker picked us up.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27The boat started to heel, and then we're broadside onto the breaker
0:20:27 > 0:20:29and it was...
0:20:29 > 0:20:33My heart was going at ten to the dozen, I was...
0:20:33 > 0:20:35I thought, "Oh, my God, here we go."
0:20:35 > 0:20:37I thought I was going for a swim.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41Luckily, Kaba, fantastic captain today, some hairy moments.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54- I am a good captain. - You are the only captain.
0:21:01 > 0:21:05Andy has survived his encounter with the breakers but the poor catch
0:21:05 > 0:21:09has driven home how illegal trawling affects the village of Mania.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11CICADAS SING
0:21:11 > 0:21:14'I feel their anger.
0:21:14 > 0:21:15'But what can you do?'
0:21:15 > 0:21:20You've got a wood canoe, basically, against a 30 metre steel trawler.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23They're not going to do anything at all. You can't do anything.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26They've already lost one life, how can they lose any more?
0:21:26 > 0:21:28They can't do it so... It's such a shame.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32I feel like I want to help out by some means because these
0:21:32 > 0:21:36are good, good men just working to provide for their families.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53No fish? You haven't got any?
0:21:53 > 0:21:58Next morning and the only thing for breakfast is yesterday's leftovers.
0:22:00 > 0:22:01Are we eating?
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Everybody is talking about the poor catch.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27I have to go to sea to feed my family
0:22:27 > 0:22:33but it's nothing like that, I'm afraid. What I go through is nothing.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35We'd always get by and if you go on the dole
0:22:35 > 0:22:38there's the government that give you money anyway so...
0:22:38 > 0:22:43if these don't go to work, that's it, they cease to exist. It's...
0:22:43 > 0:22:45It's a little bit different.
0:22:45 > 0:22:48A lot different, in fact! So, yeah...
0:22:50 > 0:22:52Without fish to sell,
0:22:52 > 0:22:55the villagers can't afford the most basic necessities
0:22:55 > 0:23:00and Andy is about to learn just how precarious life is in Mania village.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02CHILD CRIES
0:23:15 > 0:23:17- Malaria?- Yes, Malaria.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Do children die in this village from catching malaria?
0:23:36 > 0:23:39Makes it all real. Blimey.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44You think if your own daughter's ill it's...
0:23:46 > 0:23:48I don't know. It's...
0:23:50 > 0:23:52..hugely, hugely upsetting.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57It just makes you think of home and stuff so...
0:23:57 > 0:24:00OK... So...
0:24:13 > 0:24:16It seems to be that the children are suffering more than anybody else
0:24:16 > 0:24:19or they suffer first.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24It's very shocking. It sounds like everybody has lost a child.
0:24:27 > 0:24:32Luckily, today, there is medicine for Ishmael's daughter
0:24:32 > 0:24:35but the future of her community and thousands like it
0:24:35 > 0:24:37along the West African Coast
0:24:37 > 0:24:41won't be secure until illegal trawling is controlled.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44It just feels like I want to help out more, I want to...
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Which I will try, but it's um...
0:24:50 > 0:24:52I feel for them.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02Andy's decided to find out more about the illegal trawlers
0:25:02 > 0:25:04that blight the villagers' lives.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10So we're off to Freetown to hopefully see the trawlers
0:25:10 > 0:25:13that we've seen in the darkness.
0:25:13 > 0:25:16Whether they will let us aboard the boats, I don't know.
0:25:16 > 0:25:21I doubt it, but if we can blag our way on some way, we will.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24I'm hoping I can sort of say I am a fisherman from the UK
0:25:24 > 0:25:25and they might let me on,
0:25:25 > 0:25:28but I'm going to have to hold these two back when we get there because
0:25:28 > 0:25:32they could be stepping aboard to have a word with the skipper, so...
0:25:37 > 0:25:40Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.
0:25:40 > 0:25:44Here trawlers transfer their catch on to bigger ships to be frozen
0:25:44 > 0:25:48and shipped around the world, including Europe.
0:25:48 > 0:25:52Most trawlers are only interested in high-value fish.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56All the rest, including thousands of tonnes that local people could eat,
0:25:56 > 0:25:58are thrown away.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01It's a multi-million pound business.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11Do you think we'll be able to get aboard these boats? I hope so.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16- So these are the same vessels, yes? - Yes.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19- You think so? This big one out there? - This big one.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22How do you feel to see the trawlers up close?
0:26:35 > 0:26:39The only way for Andy to speak to the trawler skippers is to hire
0:26:39 > 0:26:41a local motorised canoe.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52You can see that Kaba's getting very animated.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Getting very excited about seeing the trawlers up close.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58I hope the skipper doesn't come out of the wheelhouse
0:26:58 > 0:27:01cos he could be jumping over and having a dust up so...
0:27:02 > 0:27:05As they approach, the first trawler weighs anchor.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16You can see he's turning. He's trying to evade us, definitely.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26There's one alongside here. We'll go, he can't run. He can't run.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30The crew of the second trawler aren't interested in talking either.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34No idea. Well, maybe he'll hold, yeah, yeah.
0:27:38 > 0:27:43And they seem prepared to do anything to keep Andy away from their boat.
0:27:43 > 0:27:44They obviously don't want us to film
0:27:44 > 0:27:47because they're firing catapults at us now.
0:27:54 > 0:27:55Whoa, whoa.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58He's firing a catapult at us.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02He's firing stones off the deck, or bits of steel off the deck at us
0:28:02 > 0:28:03to get us to go.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17Ishmael and Kaba are saying this is what happens
0:28:17 > 0:28:19when they get near them at sea.
0:28:19 > 0:28:20When they row up in their little boats,
0:28:20 > 0:28:22they're on the big boat firing stones at them.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25It's just unbelievable. It should be the other way round.
0:28:27 > 0:28:28I can't believe how close that was.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31It's quite hairy, really, someone throwing ballbearings at you.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33They obviously know what they're doing is totally,
0:28:33 > 0:28:36totally out of order and...
0:28:36 > 0:28:38wrong.
0:28:41 > 0:28:45Andy has discovered how powerless the fishermen feel.
0:28:45 > 0:28:49Lack of resources, and corruption mean that the government here
0:28:49 > 0:28:51does little to enforce the fishing laws.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03Andy's been in the village for a few days now
0:29:03 > 0:29:05and the catches are still low.
0:29:07 > 0:29:11They desperately need a good haul to feed their families
0:29:11 > 0:29:13but Ishmael isn't feeling hopeful.
0:29:14 > 0:29:17So you're not expecting many fish?
0:29:17 > 0:29:18That's a shame.
0:29:21 > 0:29:22No.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28Today the gods of the sea are on their side.
0:29:29 > 0:29:31Oh, another one, yeah?
0:29:36 > 0:29:37Whoa!
0:29:48 > 0:29:49- Is that good, yes?- Yes.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51- Good fish?- Good fish. - Happy?- Yeah, happy now.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54Oh, good, you're happy. As long as you're happy.
0:29:56 > 0:30:00I'm happy now. Yeah, happier now we've caught a fish.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03- We need to see another one now. - Spanish.- Spanish?- Yes.
0:30:10 > 0:30:14Hey! Here he is. Spanish.
0:30:16 > 0:30:20- Throw him back now?- No, no, no!
0:30:20 > 0:30:22I'm so happy now with this.
0:30:22 > 0:30:26They probably think I was a right Jonah. They won't bring me again,
0:30:26 > 0:30:28but we've caught some fish and they're happy
0:30:28 > 0:30:30so that's all good, I'm really pleased for them.
0:30:34 > 0:30:38For once, the trawlers seem to have left them a decent catch.
0:30:41 > 0:30:43We've actually caught some fish so now we can eat
0:30:43 > 0:30:47and I've felt a bit guilty because they have an extra mouth to feed
0:30:47 > 0:30:51so to actually contribute is... It feels good.
0:30:51 > 0:30:52This way?
0:30:52 > 0:30:55But a Mania fisherman's duties aren't over
0:30:55 > 0:30:57when the fish is landed.
0:30:57 > 0:31:02- All that on my head?- Yes.- Yes.- I can try, but I might drop them.
0:31:02 > 0:31:04Well, you have to carry them.
0:31:04 > 0:31:07- Well, I don't know, I don't carry things on my head.- Never?- Never.
0:31:07 > 0:31:09- Try.- Try.
0:31:09 > 0:31:10Yes, but...
0:31:29 > 0:31:31The three fish are about 20 pounds in weight.
0:31:31 > 0:31:37It's actually not heavy, it's just flattening the top of my head.
0:31:45 > 0:31:48- I can't carry this all that way, no way. No chance.- Take it.- No.
0:31:48 > 0:31:50I can't carry it that far, no.
0:31:56 > 0:31:58- You're lazy.- I'm not lazy.
0:31:58 > 0:32:02- I've carried six, I've carried six.- You carried six?- Yes.
0:32:03 > 0:32:07Women have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten...
0:32:07 > 0:32:10- Oh, one dozen? - One dozen on their head.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19Tonight there's food for everyone.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38When there's more fish than the villagers can eat,
0:32:38 > 0:32:42they sell what's left over for badly needed cash.
0:32:42 > 0:32:48After a big catch, Mania's smoke houses work around the clock.
0:32:48 > 0:32:50They're smoking the fish to preserve it.
0:32:50 > 0:32:54Obviously, fresh fish in Africa is not going to last
0:32:54 > 0:32:57because there's no fridges, no freezers, no ice, so fresh fish is
0:32:57 > 0:33:00not going to be fresh for more than four or five hours, less than that.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02Two or three hours in the sun. So...
0:33:02 > 0:33:07they need to smoke the fish to preserve it, to keep
0:33:07 > 0:33:11it for the end of the week cos the market is at the end of the week.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20The smoke houses need wood
0:33:20 > 0:33:23and finding it gives yet another job for Kaba and Ishmael.
0:33:42 > 0:33:46They don't stop, they're machines. I've just had a go at it.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48The wood is like bloody concrete.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51I'm knackered after cutting one, well, two things.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54I'm absolutely shattered. My hands are hurting.
0:33:54 > 0:33:59I'm going to sound like a right Jessie when this goes out at home.
0:33:59 > 0:34:00They don't stop.
0:34:00 > 0:34:03He's up the bloody tree doing it now! It's just...
0:34:06 > 0:34:07Timber!
0:34:08 > 0:34:14They're fishermen, tree surgeons, they're builders,
0:34:14 > 0:34:19they're net makers. It's just... You know...
0:34:19 > 0:34:22They give Steve Redgrave a good run for his money in the rowing boat.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25It's just... They just don't stop.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32I'm cutting, I'm cutting.
0:34:40 > 0:34:41Yes, OK.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44- Cup of tea?- Cup of tea!- Yeah, yeah.
0:34:47 > 0:34:50- Fatima, me carry?- Yes.
0:34:50 > 0:34:51Yes?
0:34:51 > 0:34:55Fatima, Ishmael's wife, is the boss of the smokehouse.
0:34:55 > 0:34:56OK?
0:34:56 > 0:34:58You are going to carry more?
0:35:04 > 0:35:07OK?
0:35:07 > 0:35:08You're going to carry more?
0:35:08 > 0:35:09Yes.
0:35:11 > 0:35:14Blimey. I feel so inadequate now.
0:35:14 > 0:35:15Look.
0:35:19 > 0:35:22Fatima keeps the smokehouse running,
0:35:22 > 0:35:25turning the catch into a commodity that is the staple
0:35:25 > 0:35:27diet across Sierra Leone.
0:35:29 > 0:35:30Its damn hot in here.
0:35:36 > 0:35:37The mouth here, and the mouth here,
0:35:37 > 0:35:41so it's been... It's literally been peeled apart into halves.
0:35:41 > 0:35:44So it doesn't look that appetising with all the bugs
0:35:44 > 0:35:45crawling all over it.
0:35:45 > 0:35:47It's just alive with things.
0:35:51 > 0:35:53- Really?- Mmm.- OK.
0:35:55 > 0:35:57Wow. Um...
0:36:01 > 0:36:04Feeding and supporting hundreds of people solely by fishing
0:36:04 > 0:36:08demands relentless graft from everyone in the village.
0:36:12 > 0:36:18If they came and worked this hard in England, they'd be rich people
0:36:18 > 0:36:22because they just work and they work and they work some more.
0:36:25 > 0:36:29Fatima today, fantastic. Three kids to look after.
0:36:29 > 0:36:34She's cooked everybody breakfast, she's then done the washing.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37Then she's got down and got wood, and chopped the word, and then she's
0:36:37 > 0:36:42got water, and then she's smoked all the fish, 40 hours a week.
0:36:42 > 0:36:45They would do 40 hours a day if it was possible.
0:37:05 > 0:37:07A week into his stay in the village
0:37:07 > 0:37:11Andy is going with Kaba and Ishmael to take their dried fish to market.
0:37:20 > 0:37:23Fish accounts for 70% of the animal protein
0:37:23 > 0:37:26consumed in Sierra Leone.
0:37:27 > 0:37:32Local fishermen come to the market in Yagoi to sell their catch.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34Ishmael and Kaba are trying to organise something
0:37:34 > 0:37:37to try and get the fish ashore, but there's no room for anything.
0:37:37 > 0:37:41There's no room to stand, hardly. It's absolute chaos.
0:37:44 > 0:37:47Kaba thinks he's found a buyer for the fish.
0:37:47 > 0:37:49WOMAN SPEAKS
0:37:49 > 0:37:52- We think they're worth 260,000, yes? - Yes.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54260. Can't pay that.
0:37:54 > 0:37:57- You not pay that?- No. - You tell how much.
0:37:57 > 0:38:02- 120.- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
0:38:04 > 0:38:09- 250.- It's too much.- Too much?- Yeah.
0:38:09 > 0:38:14Three big men, look. Look. We need to eat!
0:38:14 > 0:38:16- That what they're saying? 190?- 180.
0:38:16 > 0:38:20- 190.- 180.- 190.- Yes.
0:38:20 > 0:38:22- Yes?- Yeah.- Yes.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25- She's agreed.- It's good. - Yes? OK, it's good?
0:38:25 > 0:38:28- Yes.- Good. Happy?- Yeah, happy. - Good, good.
0:38:28 > 0:38:32So, the money we have for the fish is 30 quid,
0:38:32 > 0:38:35so they need to split that six ways.
0:38:35 > 0:38:37They split it one each for the fishermen,
0:38:37 > 0:38:40which apparently I'm one of them,
0:38:40 > 0:38:42so that's three gone.
0:38:42 > 0:38:45There's one for the transport,
0:38:45 > 0:38:47one for the smoking house
0:38:47 > 0:38:53and one for the nets and stuff, so that's six.
0:38:53 > 0:38:57That's a fiver, so I've worked for a fiver for a week.
0:38:57 > 0:38:59The guys have done the same, fiver each for the week.
0:38:59 > 0:39:04It's, um...a fiver.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08So hard for them. So, so hard.
0:39:08 > 0:39:11Heartbreaking to see what they've gone through all week,
0:39:11 > 0:39:14and this is just one week that might have been a good week for them.
0:39:14 > 0:39:17It's heartbreaking how hard they work. I'd like to take them on.
0:39:17 > 0:39:19They could work for me any day of the week,
0:39:19 > 0:39:23because these guys just... Well, they don't know when they're beaten.
0:39:23 > 0:39:27They'll just carry on and on and on and on and, you know,
0:39:27 > 0:39:30hat off to them.
0:39:46 > 0:39:49- Thanks for looking after me, yeah? - Thank you for that. Thanks.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53- OK.- So happy.- Yes, good. Two fantastic guys.
0:39:53 > 0:39:56I couldn't have wished to be away with anybody else, really.
0:39:56 > 0:39:59Really taken to them.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01They're two good friends I've got, I think,
0:40:01 > 0:40:04so hopefully they feel the same way, but I'm sure they do.
0:40:08 > 0:40:11- Hi, Ed.- Hi, Andy.- All right, mate? Had any joy?
0:40:11 > 0:40:15It's now 18 months since Andy returned from Sierra Leone
0:40:15 > 0:40:18but he's never forgotten the fishermen of Mania.
0:40:18 > 0:40:19How many hooks are there?
0:40:19 > 0:40:22There's a box of a thousand, there should be two boxes.
0:40:22 > 0:40:25Two boxes of hooks, fantastic. What they were using was,
0:40:25 > 0:40:28if you can imagine, rusty and bent up.
0:40:28 > 0:40:31When I came back I wasn't expecting people
0:40:31 > 0:40:34to be so supportive. I just thought I was doing a TV programme
0:40:34 > 0:40:37and it would be all forgotten, but the whole community pulled together.
0:40:37 > 0:40:40I hope its... Make some use of it for them. Have a good trip.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43Cheers. People wanted to help out, wanted to raise money,
0:40:43 > 0:40:46wanted to do things for these people because they felt their plight.
0:40:46 > 0:40:49All over the country, not just in Looe itself and not just in Cornwall.
0:40:49 > 0:40:53It was a nationwide thing, people from all over ringing us up.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55Wanted to know where they can donate money.
0:40:55 > 0:41:00Now Andy's heading back to see how the £7,000 raised has helped
0:41:00 > 0:41:03and how the villagers are faring in their struggle
0:41:03 > 0:41:05with illegal trawlers.
0:41:05 > 0:41:08Before he goes he's doing some last-minute shopping
0:41:08 > 0:41:11for Kaba and Ishmael.
0:41:11 > 0:41:15- Phil, do you do barrel weights? - Barrels like that.
0:41:15 > 0:41:18Ah, right, OK, yes. Because they were using sort of...
0:41:18 > 0:41:22- spark plugs and stones wrapped up. - Were they?
0:41:22 > 0:41:25I'm really looking forward going back out and seeing the lads
0:41:25 > 0:41:27It's the same job at the end of the day,
0:41:27 > 0:41:29it's in a different continent but
0:41:29 > 0:41:31they work with nets, I work with nets.
0:41:31 > 0:41:35The end product is catching fish and that's what we're all there to do.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37I really want these guys to catch more fish,
0:41:37 > 0:41:40I don't want them to go to sea and not catch anything.
0:41:40 > 0:41:43I want them to be happy with what they're doing
0:41:43 > 0:41:47and what makes a fisherman happy is catching more fish.
0:41:54 > 0:41:57It's a million miles from where I live in Cornwall, isn't it?
0:41:57 > 0:41:59It's totally different.
0:42:00 > 0:42:03I'm starting to get really excited now, we're getting close,
0:42:03 > 0:42:08not far away now, getting a few butterflies in the stomach.
0:42:13 > 0:42:17- Hooray!- Andy!- Kaba!- Andy!
0:42:17 > 0:42:19HE LAUGHS
0:42:19 > 0:42:22Andy!
0:42:25 > 0:42:27- Andy!- How are you doing?
0:42:39 > 0:42:44- A new boat?- Yes..- A new boat. And you've painted it.
0:42:44 > 0:42:48- The old boat is gone. Finished? - The boat is finished.- Smoke, fire?
0:42:50 > 0:42:53- The old boat broke up? On the breakers?- Yes.
0:42:53 > 0:42:58You sink? In the water? You swim? No? Yeah?
0:42:58 > 0:43:04- Hello. How are you?- Andy.- Andy.
0:43:04 > 0:43:07Wow, what a greeting, eh?
0:43:07 > 0:43:10I can't stop smiling, I've got cheekache now
0:43:10 > 0:43:15from smiling so much, it was fantastic, totally emotional, really.
0:43:15 > 0:43:19Feel a bit of a tear welling up, you know, they were so happy to see me.
0:43:19 > 0:43:21- Back in Mania.- Back in Mania.
0:43:24 > 0:43:29After a long journey, it's time for Andy to turn in.
0:43:29 > 0:43:34But night time is prime fishing time for the men of Mania village.
0:43:36 > 0:43:39As dawn breaks, they're returning to the beach.
0:43:42 > 0:43:47They've been at sea for six hours, but it's been worth it.
0:43:47 > 0:43:51- Hey.- Andy.- Kaba.
0:43:51 > 0:43:55Big fish. Yay!
0:43:57 > 0:44:01Hey, how you doing, all right? Ishmael, all right?
0:44:01 > 0:44:04Good catch. Oh, brilliant.
0:44:08 > 0:44:10You're going to play with a beautiful woman?
0:44:13 > 0:44:17That's too much information, really!
0:44:21 > 0:44:25The last time I was here I think the best catch we had was 7 fish
0:44:25 > 0:44:30so today they've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10,
0:44:30 > 0:44:32they've got more than double.
0:44:36 > 0:44:39Happy, happy, happy.
0:44:41 > 0:44:45Don't ask me to carry it on my head, I'm not carrying it on my head.
0:44:45 > 0:44:48No, no, no.
0:44:54 > 0:44:56OK? Steady, yeah?
0:44:58 > 0:45:01I'm not lazy! Stop saying I'm lazy, OK, I'm trying, all right?
0:45:03 > 0:45:05Shush you!
0:45:05 > 0:45:09And it looks like today's bumper catch is not a one off.
0:45:09 > 0:45:13Since Andy's last visit, everything has changed.
0:45:13 > 0:45:14No trawlers?
0:45:16 > 0:45:18All gone?
0:45:23 > 0:45:25- One and a half years, no trawlers? - No trawlers.
0:45:25 > 0:45:28Well, that's brilliant, fantastic.
0:45:30 > 0:45:32And you're happy?
0:45:32 > 0:45:35You're always happy. So, no trawlers, which is good.
0:45:35 > 0:45:41- So you can now put nets out and you are safe and your nets are safe.- Yes.
0:45:41 > 0:45:45- And also there's more fish? - More fish.
0:45:45 > 0:45:48- Good fish? Lots of fish? Big fish? - Yes.- Yes.
0:45:48 > 0:45:52Without the illegal trawlers stealing their catch,
0:45:52 > 0:45:55the villagers are selling more fish than ever before.
0:46:04 > 0:46:08Europe for your fish. Right, OK. So, it goes to Europe now, the fish?
0:46:08 > 0:46:10Yes, yes.
0:46:10 > 0:46:13Wow, someone in Spain or France is eating your fish
0:46:13 > 0:46:15- that you caught in Africa.- Yes.
0:46:15 > 0:46:18- That's mad.- Yes.- Yeah.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21So more fish, no problems with the trawlers,
0:46:21 > 0:46:27- bigger price for your fish...- Yes. - No wonder you're smiling!
0:46:27 > 0:46:30In the last 18 months, the whole of Sierra Leone
0:46:30 > 0:46:34has experienced a revolution in its fishing industry.
0:46:35 > 0:46:37The government here has finally woken up
0:46:37 > 0:46:40to the damage caused by illegal trawling.
0:46:42 > 0:46:45Now the five mile exclusion zone around this coast
0:46:45 > 0:46:49is being vigorously enforced.
0:46:49 > 0:46:52The Environmental Justice Foundation, EJF,
0:46:52 > 0:46:55played a key role in this dramatic turnaround.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58One of their workers, Amara Kalone, is a regular visitor
0:46:58 > 0:47:03to Mania village, where he monitors the health of the fish stocks.
0:47:11 > 0:47:14So did my trip here last time help?
0:47:34 > 0:47:36That's fantastic.
0:47:37 > 0:47:41EJF used Andy's programme to help persuade the government
0:47:41 > 0:47:43to take action.
0:47:43 > 0:47:45So, I've brought some stuff from England...
0:47:45 > 0:47:49With the trawlers gone, the fish stocks here are now recovering.
0:47:49 > 0:47:52Andy hopes the supplies he's brought
0:47:52 > 0:47:55will help the villagers catch even more of them.
0:47:55 > 0:47:58Some float on the surface and some dive.
0:48:08 > 0:48:09It's OK.
0:48:09 > 0:48:13But it's the children of the village that he really wants to help.
0:48:15 > 0:48:17The kids, they just have nothing,
0:48:17 > 0:48:20they're literally playing in the dirt and they have nothing.
0:48:20 > 0:48:26More than 40% of the population of Sierra Leone is under 14
0:48:26 > 0:48:29and education here is very basic.
0:48:29 > 0:48:33Six months ago, Andy sent out a shipment of school equipment,
0:48:33 > 0:48:36bought with the money he helped raise.
0:48:40 > 0:48:42But it looks like some of it didn't turn up.
0:48:42 > 0:48:44This is all that's arrived?
0:48:48 > 0:48:53So, not much, then, really. There was lots, probably 20 boxes of stuff.
0:48:53 > 0:48:57Musical instruments, sports equipment, rugby balls, footballs.
0:48:57 > 0:49:00There was boxes and boxes of pencils that we sent.
0:49:00 > 0:49:04- That's all you've got left. Material to make uniforms.- Uniforms.
0:49:04 > 0:49:07For the children, not here.
0:49:09 > 0:49:10Not here.
0:49:10 > 0:49:12The missing equipment for the children
0:49:12 > 0:49:15was stolen from the port in Freetown.
0:49:15 > 0:49:20These kids have literally nothing so, yeah, I'm a bit upset
0:49:20 > 0:49:24that so little gear has arrived, it's such a shame.
0:49:24 > 0:49:29It's just a sad situation, really, but we'll...
0:49:33 > 0:49:37Andy's brought some more supplies with him from Cornwall.
0:49:37 > 0:49:40Although I was bringing it anyway, it just makes it all the better,
0:49:40 > 0:49:42it fills in what they haven't got.
0:49:42 > 0:49:46- Some footballs. I've got a pump to pump these up, OK?- OK.
0:49:46 > 0:49:50And some different teams, OK?
0:49:50 > 0:49:55Frisbees for catching and throwing. OK?
0:49:55 > 0:50:00So, there's some of them. Yes, you've got it, yeah.
0:50:13 > 0:50:17One simple football, you can see the pleasure they have out of one ball,
0:50:17 > 0:50:19for the stuff they've got there that's hours of fun for them,
0:50:19 > 0:50:22catching a ball, throwing a ball. Sport is supposed to be fun,
0:50:22 > 0:50:26You can see what fun they're having. So glad I bought it. So glad.
0:50:35 > 0:50:37It's Andy's last day in the village.
0:50:37 > 0:50:41And there's one more thing he has to do.
0:50:41 > 0:50:43GRUNTING
0:50:48 > 0:50:54There may be more fish in the sea, but you still have to catch them
0:50:54 > 0:50:57and that means paddling.
0:51:00 > 0:51:02I'm pulling, I'm pulling.
0:51:08 > 0:51:11I'm a knackered fisherman.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14It's as bad as I remember.
0:51:14 > 0:51:18Jesus, man, they don't stop, they just keep going and going
0:51:18 > 0:51:23and I'm thinking, "I need a rest, just 30 seconds then we'll go again."
0:51:23 > 0:51:27They just keep going, "Come on, Andy, come on, Andy."
0:51:27 > 0:51:30Swim up the fish.
0:51:30 > 0:51:34No fish. Come on, where are the fish?
0:51:34 > 0:51:38Can't blame it on the trawlers today!
0:51:50 > 0:51:53Good fish, big fish.
0:51:57 > 0:52:00I'm glad we caught something, eh?
0:52:00 > 0:52:05You'd be calling me a Jonah, "You're not coming again!"
0:52:05 > 0:52:08That is it one, one fish.
0:52:08 > 0:52:11Never mind, it's fishing.
0:52:11 > 0:52:13# South Australia, I was born
0:52:13 > 0:52:15# Haul away, heave away
0:52:15 > 0:52:18# Bound for South Australia... #
0:52:25 > 0:52:28One big one is better than none at all.
0:52:28 > 0:52:31- We could have caught none.- Yes.
0:52:40 > 0:52:42- Ah, rice and fish. - Yes.
0:52:42 > 0:52:44That makes a change.
0:52:44 > 0:52:46Eat.
0:52:46 > 0:52:50I'm eating, I'm eating, I don't really want to eat the head.
0:52:50 > 0:52:55You seem happier, you don't seem so vexed as you were before.
0:53:07 > 0:53:1018 months since I last came
0:53:10 > 0:53:12- there's a big change, the village has changed.- Yes.
0:53:14 > 0:53:17Zinc roofs.
0:53:17 > 0:53:19- That all takes money, yes?- Yes.
0:53:19 > 0:53:22So you must be earning good money to be able to afford new houses
0:53:22 > 0:53:25- with zinc roofs.- Yes, yes.- OK.
0:53:25 > 0:53:31I'm happy, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm happy that you're happy.
0:53:31 > 0:53:34I'm really pleased that you're catching more fish.
0:53:37 > 0:53:40For a poor country that relies so heavily on fishing,
0:53:40 > 0:53:45all the changes mean a significant boost to living standards.
0:53:45 > 0:53:49There's one last reason for this transformation
0:53:49 > 0:53:52and to find out more, Andy is heading back to the harbour
0:53:52 > 0:53:56at Freetown with Kaba and Ishmael.
0:53:56 > 0:53:57We have to go out on this now, yeah?
0:53:57 > 0:54:02The last time they were here, illegal trawlers were operating openly.
0:54:02 > 0:54:06All that has changed because the government of Sierra Leone
0:54:06 > 0:54:08now has a secret weapon.
0:54:08 > 0:54:12And it's come from an unlikely source.
0:54:15 > 0:54:18- This boat came from England?- England. - Yes.
0:54:22 > 0:54:25Yes, Fast, fast, good boat.
0:54:25 > 0:54:27The government of the Isle Of Man
0:54:27 > 0:54:30donated this Fisheries Protection Vessel
0:54:30 > 0:54:33shortly after Andy's last visit.
0:54:33 > 0:54:37In charge of the operation, is Victor Kargbo.
0:54:41 > 0:54:44Has this Isle Of Man boat made a huge difference to you?
0:55:12 > 0:55:15For a desperately poor country
0:55:15 > 0:55:18even one small vessel can make all the difference.
0:55:18 > 0:55:22Now, the Fisheries Protection Officers can stop and inspect
0:55:22 > 0:55:24any fishing boat in their national waters.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39They're going in opposite directions trying to run away from us now.
0:55:39 > 0:55:43Victor decides to pursue one of the trawlers,
0:55:43 > 0:55:47but it doesn't seem too keen on being inspected.
0:55:51 > 0:55:54HORN BLARES
0:55:54 > 0:55:58But even if the trawler did want to run, there would be no point.
0:55:58 > 0:56:02The Isle Of Man is the fastest boat in these waters.
0:56:20 > 0:56:23The government can impose fines of up to a million dollars
0:56:23 > 0:56:26if vessels are in breach of the law.
0:56:35 > 0:56:37- It's a big boat, yes?- Big.
0:56:37 > 0:56:39Slow down.
0:56:39 > 0:56:42With the trawler coming to a halt, the soldiers can board.
0:56:45 > 0:56:49Victor and the boarding team are searching for any signs of illegal fishing.
0:56:49 > 0:56:51They're checking net sizes and the boat's paperwork
0:56:51 > 0:56:55to see if they have the correct fishing licenses.
0:56:55 > 0:56:57It couldn't be more different from the last time
0:56:57 > 0:57:00Andy, Kaba and Ishmael were here.
0:57:00 > 0:57:03Remember the last time we got near one of these in Freetown?
0:57:03 > 0:57:10- Yes.- We went around and they were throwing... Different this time, yes?
0:57:10 > 0:57:14They're not going to throw stones, because we have guns.
0:57:15 > 0:57:18Satisfied that everything's in order,
0:57:18 > 0:57:21Victor gives it the all clear.
0:57:25 > 0:57:28The whole system is working here for them now,
0:57:28 > 0:57:31to see Kaba and Ishmael smiling and joking, happy with life
0:57:31 > 0:57:34because they're catching more fish, it's fantastic.
0:57:34 > 0:57:36I'm only a fisherman from Cornwall
0:57:36 > 0:57:40to come out and make a programme and actually make a difference,
0:57:40 > 0:57:44its very humbling, really...
0:57:44 > 0:57:48it's surreal.
0:57:48 > 0:57:52Next time, when London binman Wilbur Ramirez
0:57:52 > 0:57:55swapped his truck for a handcart in Jakarta.
0:57:55 > 0:57:58The sun here is boiling.
0:57:58 > 0:58:01He found a city, drowning in its own waste.
0:58:01 > 0:58:06And formed a deep friendship with his host, Imam Syaffi.
0:58:07 > 0:58:11Now, he's going back on a mission to help his friend.
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