Aotea and cultural identity at risk due to invasive algae | Mauri Moana | Pacific Pulse (short film)
Pacific Islanders in Communications
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The truth be known, it is chaos'}, {'start': '107.880', 'end': '115.200', 'text': 'boy without a word of lie.'}, {'start': '111.920', 'end': '117.360', 'text': "Calpa is a beast and a menace. It's"}, {'start': '115.200', 'end': '120.920', 'text': 'incredibly bright green and looks very,'}, {'start': '117.360', 'end': '122.920', 'text': "very pretty. But it's sticky"}, {'start': '120.920', 'end': '125.840', 'text': 'and'}, {'start': '122.920', 'end': '128.560', 'text': 'smelly and smothers everything in its'}, {'start': '125.840', 'end': '130.720', 'text': 'path under the water. And I think'}, {'start': '128.560', 'end': '134.160', 'text': 'because it is under the water and you'}, {'start': '130.720', 'end': '137.760', 'text': "can't see it, you don't really resonate"}, {'start': '134.160', 'end': '139.840', 'text': "as to how damaging it is. And that's"}, {'start': '137.760', 'end': '141.000', 'text': "what we're facing now. What do we do"}, {'start': '139.840', 'end': '145.200', 'text': 'about'}, {'start': '141.000', 'end': '148.000', 'text': 'it in 3 years from from an Altea'}, {'start': '145.200', 'end': '151.280', 'text': 'perspective with Kurpa? It was found'}, {'start': '148.000', 'end': '155.000', 'text': 'here in Okupe. It was found in Triina'}, {'start': '151.280', 'end': '158.000', 'text': 'and it was also found in Fongara Parara.'}, {'start': '155.000', 'end': '163.000', 'text': "Now it's all up our west coast here on"}, {'start': '158.000', 'end': '163.000', 'text': 'the island and creeping around the Cape.'}, {'start': '172.319', 'end': '176.800', 'text': 'The overseas'}, {'start': '173.879', 'end': '179.120', 'text': "experience says that where they've had"}, {'start': '176.800', 'end': '183.760', 'text': "large infestations, there's been up to"}, {'start': '179.120', 'end': '188.000', 'text': '50% loss of immenity, which is the use'}, {'start': '183.760', 'end': '193.239', 'text': 'of the area in terms of change, but also'}, {'start': '188.000', 'end': '193.239', 'text': '50% loss of the the fish life.'}, {'start': '194.159', 'end': '200.000', 'text': 'When we first came aware of it, we'}, {'start': '196.879', 'end': '201.920', 'text': "didn't know a lot about it. I don't"}, {'start': '200.000', 'end': '204.879', 'text': 'think we know as much as what we should'}, {'start': '201.920', 'end': '207.280', 'text': 'know even today about it. We were told'}, {'start': '204.879', 'end': '210.799', 'text': "it won't grow on any other surface."}, {'start': '207.280', 'end': '213.760', 'text': 'Since then, we know that it will grow on'}, {'start': '210.799', 'end': '214.599', 'text': 'the shells of scolops. It will grow on'}, {'start': '213.760', 'end': '217.799', 'text': 'other'}, {'start': '214.599', 'end': '222.480', 'text': 'crustations. It will grow up wolf'}, {'start': '217.799', 'end': '224.879', 'text': 'piles. It has this strong desire to'}, {'start': '222.480', 'end': '228.879', 'text': 'survive and suffocate everything in its'}, {'start': '224.879', 'end': '231.200', 'text': 'path. Divers have told us that it covers'}, {'start': '228.879', 'end': '233.440', 'text': 'the the crevices under the water for the'}, {'start': '231.200', 'end': '236.239', 'text': 'crayfish. So when they do their march'}, {'start': '233.440', 'end': '239.000', 'text': 'and return to their homes, their homes'}, {'start': '236.239', 'end': '242.480', 'text': "aren't there. They're covered"}, {'start': '239.000', 'end': '245.640', 'text': 'over. But I have a horrid feeling just'}, {'start': '242.480', 'end': '249.120', 'text': "because of the amount that's here, the"}, {'start': '245.640', 'end': '252.400', 'text': 'density and the complexity of it.'}, {'start': '249.120', 'end': '252.400', 'text': "Nobody's sure what to"}, {'start': '253.319', 'end': '256.319', 'text': 'do.'}, {'start': '277.479', 'end': '281.360', 'text': 'for the tongu.'}, {'start': '293.070', 'end': '296.180', 'text': '[Music]'}, {'start': '296.880', 'end': '301.080', 'text': 'I see it on the beach here every day'}, {'start': '299.360', 'end': '304.080', 'text': 'when we walk the'}, {'start': '301.080', 'end': '305.919', 'text': "dogs and it's just gotten worse and"}, {'start': '304.080', 'end': '308.720', 'text': 'worse.'}, {'start': '305.919', 'end': '311.320', 'text': 'Big storms were bringing in truckloads'}, {'start': '308.720', 'end': '313.840', 'text': 'of it. It was so'}, {'start': '311.320', 'end': '315.919', 'text': 'bad. But no one else the beach even'}, {'start': '313.840', 'end': '319.639', 'text': 'smelt four times a day when it washes in'}, {'start': '315.919', 'end': '323.840', 'text': 'so thick. Gives off a sort of a'}, {'start': '319.639', 'end': '325.600', 'text': 'snotty. Yeah. Very smelly. Yeah. Like we'}, {'start': '323.840', 'end': '328.000', 'text': "couldn't even drive through to launch"}, {'start': '325.600', 'end': '329.360', 'text': 'our boats. Tractors and trailers were'}, {'start': '328.000', 'end': '332.080', 'text': 'getting stuck in it. It was about half a'}, {'start': '329.360', 'end': '334.800', 'text': 'meter thick. It to wash up at times all'}, {'start': '332.080', 'end': '337.560', 'text': 'over this beautiful beach.'}, {'start': '334.800', 'end': '341.720', 'text': "I worry that I'll never be able to eat"}, {'start': '337.560', 'end': '343.639', 'text': "kawana one day and that it'll be all"}, {'start': '341.720', 'end': '347.680', 'text': 'gone. And'}, {'start': '343.639', 'end': '353.039', 'text': "that's that's what I fear."}, {'start': '347.680', 'end': '356.639', 'text': 'Out there is our freezer and it has a'}, {'start': '353.039', 'end': '358.600', 'text': 'lifespan of million years. But when it'}, {'start': '356.639', 'end': '362.080', 'text': 'comes to this'}, {'start': '358.600', 'end': '364.120', 'text': "kalupa, what it's doing is taking the"}, {'start': '362.080', 'end': '367.199', 'text': 'top of the food'}, {'start': '364.120', 'end': '369.960', 'text': 'chain, if it suffocates everything on'}, {'start': '367.199', 'end': '373.120', 'text': 'the rocks and the sand out'}, {'start': '369.960', 'end': '374.199', 'text': "there, what it's going to do is all the"}, {'start': '373.120', 'end': '376.520', 'text': 'fish are going to'}, {'start': '374.199', 'end': '380.639', 'text': 'migrate, go somewhere'}, {'start': '376.520', 'end': '383.759', 'text': "else. It's taking out the ka,"}, {'start': '380.639', 'end': '386.150', 'text': "it's taking out scolops."}, {'start': '383.759', 'end': '388.600', 'text': "It's taking out our"}, {'start': '386.150', 'end': '392.800', 'text': '[Music]'}, {'start': '388.600', 'end': '392.800', 'text': "kana. It's actually killing"}, {'start': '393.160', 'end': '399.840', 'text': "it. I couldn't find one speck of sign of"}, {'start': '397.520', 'end': '402.240', 'text': 'alai on the floor. I know that they'}, {'start': '399.840', 'end': '405.759', 'text': 'should be still there. Mhm. But all the'}, {'start': '402.240', 'end': '405.759', 'text': 'fish are gone. All the'}, {'start': '407.800', 'end': '410.800', 'text': 'shellfish.'}, {'start': '428.039', 'end': '435.599', 'text': 'Our right to be here is not solely'}, {'start': '433.120', 'end': '438.000', 'text': 'attached to the land cuz lots of our'}, {'start': '435.599', 'end': '442.479', 'text': 'hapuka grounds and our our fishing'}, {'start': '438.000', 'end': '444.400', 'text': 'grounds all have old tupa names that are'}, {'start': '442.479', 'end': '447.010', 'text': 'most probably have come from Hawaii when'}, {'start': '444.400', 'end': '449.960', 'text': 'our when our ancestors'}, {'start': '447.010', 'end': '453.599', 'text': '[Music]'}, {'start': '449.960', 'end': '454.520', 'text': 'came. We need to have plans that protect'}, {'start': '453.599', 'end': '457.759', 'text': 'this'}, {'start': '454.520', 'end': '460.639', 'text': 'area. What does that mean? I think a'}, {'start': '457.759', 'end': '462.240', 'text': 'part of it is making people aware that'}, {'start': '460.639', 'end': '464.240', 'text': "there is something happening and there's"}, {'start': '462.240', 'end': '468.479', 'text': 'a change coming. If everyone comes'}, {'start': '464.240', 'end': '470.240', 'text': 'together, um I think there is hope to'}, {'start': '468.479', 'end': '473.199', 'text': 'restore'}, {'start': '470.240', 'end': '478.039', 'text': "uh the ocean, but it's going to take"}, {'start': '473.199', 'end': '480.919', 'text': "everybody. I don't believe that the"}, {'start': '478.039', 'end': '486.199', 'text': 'government truly'}, {'start': '480.919', 'end': '486.199', 'text': 'understand what is at stake here.'}, {'start': '486.319', 'end': '489.199', 'text': 'What is going to happen when the'}, {'start': '487.599', 'end': '490.360', 'text': 'scoloplet beds as we know them are'}, {'start': '489.199', 'end': '492.759', 'text': 'smothered and'}, {'start': '490.360', 'end': '495.599', 'text': 'suffocated and there becomes no more'}, {'start': '492.759', 'end': '497.360', 'text': "scolops? And it's up to us now to do"}, {'start': '495.599', 'end': '500.160', 'text': "something about it. 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