Bertie Gregory

But in many places in Raja Ampat, you dive on those places and it's just a rubble field because they've been dynamite fished.

So that's when fishermen would come along, they would chuck a stick of dynamite into the water.

It goes bang.

Stunned the fish.

All the fish come up to the surface, dead, stunned.

You get a quick, easy catch.

But of course, the fragile coral reef is left destroyed.

That coral reef is the basis of the whole ecosystem.

And so

Once you've trashed that bit of reef, well, it's gone.

You have to move to the next place.

Now, if you're doing that on a very small scale, okay, maybe that could work, but there's lots of people and it's, yeah, so it was trashed.

So about 20 years ago,

in a place called Missoula, the community came together and they were backed by pretty significant private philanthropy.

They came together and they said, enough is enough.

The ecosystem is dying and as a fishing community, we are really, really struggling.

So they basically just set up a no take zone

You're not allowed to fish in it.

Many of the fishermen became kind of rangers.

Some of them became dive guides.