“It’s very hard to hunt a poacher.”

In reserves, you are supposed to be able to preserve something. Or here, a reserve is being exploited industrially. That’s what happens. It’s a reversal of the balance between man and nature. Man was completely integrated into nature, he needed a fish, he would go, fish it and eat it. He would also sell it, but he certainly didn’t have the ability to preserve it in a refrigerator and he didn’t have the ability to sell it the way it is sold now. And back then, he didn’t fish it. Nobody makes unnecessary efforts. Nobody went fishing to catch trophies. For a man from the pond, to spend 5,000 dollars on a boat trip, where you can fish for a fish that you can kiss is idiocy, it’s an aberration. That’s how it was. It was an aberration. Now, the legislator came and said that catch and release is done in the delta. Given that there are 20,000 tourists, it’s clearly necessary. But you can’t tell this to someone from the Delta. He was raised to fish and eat. That’s why he goes fishing. He doesn’t go fishing to release the pike. It’s aberrant, there’s no such thing. It doesn’t make any sense. It never had. The problem is that people don’t fish just to eat anymore, they fish to sell, and when the opportunity to sell arises, the temptation to sell as much as possible arises, to fish as much as possible, by any means, and at any time. It’s hard to supervise. I worked in the Border Police, which had clear responsibilities for combating poaching. It’s very hard to hunt a poacher. He’s a hunter, he’s a being capable of hunting an animal that has defensive instincts. He’s also learned something from his prey. He knows how to hide very well from the authorities.