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Bertie Gregory

πŸ‘€ Speaker
790 total appearances

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What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

They can be 200 to 300 kilos, these fish.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

They're enormous.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

uh yeah so a thousand fish in one net guess how much food you have to feed 1 000 bluefin tuna per day oh tons and tons i'm sure six to ten tons of fish per net this one ranch had 24 nets

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

That means they are feeding that farm up to 240 tons of prey fish per day.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Where does that come from?

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

It comes from anywhere in the ocean around the world.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

So once a week, this enormous ship would turn up with herring from Norway, anchovies from the coast of Chile, sardines from the coast of South Africa, wherever it was cheap.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

And these fish would get poured into these nets,

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

We were catching fish to feed fish.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Right.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Because there's enough depressing stuff in the world.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Well, I mean, a really...

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

Staying with the theme of the ocean, the really amazing thing about the ocean is that if you give it the chance, it comes back on an unbelievable scale, the speed.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

So a really awesome conservation success story.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

There's a place called Raja Ampat in Indonesia.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

It's this amazing archipelago.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

It looks like something out of a storybook.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

It's all these little islands covered in green jungle.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

And around those islands underwater,

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Bertie Gregory: Saving the Animals (Even the Ones That Are Assholes)

is some of the most amazing coral reef.