00:00Professional fishermen and crit are in despair, puffer fish and invasive species that enter the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal
00:07continue to devastate marine biodiversity.
00:11The puffer fish problem affects many Mediterranean countries, particularly Cyprus and Greece, where this poisonous and highly opportunistic predator has
00:19become dominant in recent years.
00:21In addition to containing a powerful toxin that makes them deadly if consumed, these fish have exceptionally strong jaws capable
00:28of biting through wood and metal.
00:31I've caught the fish, I've caught the fish. Look at the fish. The fish are useless. These five days, I'll
00:39take them out.
00:40I buy badagram tribes. People's sheep eat meat fat. camps 잡아 insectisans kinds of flying fish, coffee pecs have deutsch
00:55but they justĂŁo.
00:59Greek fishers call the government?eles to implement a subsidy program for the removal of these fish, allowing fishermen to
01:06cut them and reduce the population while limiting the enormous damage
01:09Pufferfish are causing to their livelihoods.
01:28Pufferfish were first recorded in Greece in 2005 in Crete and the Dodecanese Islands.
01:3420 years later they are now found throughout the country
01:38with scientists warning that consuming them can be fatal.
01:57Research is also underway to find ways to neutralize the feces toxin
02:01so that it may eventually become commercially viable or at least useful for other purposes.
02:05We have proceeded to research in order to find ways
02:09to remove the tetrodoxin from the liver
02:14and to be able to be able to clean up the liver
02:17and to be able to deal with some e-pies products
02:20such as lipids, compost and such things.
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