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Meet Haiti's Baby-Faced Baby Shark Guardian
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March 3, 2020
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6:22Now PlayingSubsistence fishing is (to paraphrase) when the catch of the day either ends up as dinner or is sold to cover life’s essentials. It’s the main fishing activity of tropical developing countries, including thousands of Haitians, a nation of people deeply connected to the sea.
With fish stocks around the island dwindling, fishermen have traditionally seen sharks as competition for food and will kill them if hooked on the line. But recently, a team of scientists established that Haiti is a hotspot for baby oceanic whitetips, an extremely endangered species of #shark.
Along with #OceanX, they traveled to #Haiti to work with the Haiti Ocean Project, a not-for-profit founded by American national Jamie Aquino in 2007. The Haiti Ocean Project consists of a team of Haitians who teach others how sharks can actually help their waters to thrive.
Follow along a day in the life of Jamie's shark co-ordinator, Claude; when a fisherman has a whitetip on the line, Claude springs into action, chartering a motorbike to whichever part of the island he needs to go to, showing the fisherman how to safely release the shark, as well as collecting data that are being fed into major efforts to restore the oceanic whitetip throughout the Atlantic.
Created with our partners @BloombergDotOrg and The Moore Charitable Foundation. #onebigwave.
Director, Producer & Editor: Janssen Powers
Executive Producer: Mark Dalio
Director of Photography: Janssen Powers
Underwater DOP: Duncan Brake
Additional Camera: Andy Mann, Julien Jarry
Assistant Editors: Taj Howe, Patrick Hopkins
Post Supervisor: Gabe Tanenhaus
Social Producer: Erika Jarvis
Audio: Julien Jarry
Audio Mix: Max Sound Recording
Color Correction: Running Man Post
Production Associate: Patrick Hopkins
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