Five kilos of fish at three euros a kilo makes 15 euros a day. How can you live from that? Effiania Flores is up at 5.30am. She lights a candle（蜡烛） for the patron（赞助人） saint（圣人） and sets off with her husband Jorgius in the direction of the sea. This here is my house, just so you know. I had my mind set（设置） on marrying a fisherman, and that's what I did.

  I seized（抓住） the opportunity and became a fisherwoman. I love fishing. I really do. It's really exciting. Especially when you have a good catch（捕捉）. Their chances look good this morning.

  They're out early. The sea is calm（静的） and the weather forecast（预测） looks good. Effiania feels at home on her boat, which bears（承担） her second name, Margarita. Two small coffees. The couple have spent more than 50 years fishing the seas around the Greek island of Chios. I sing songs for you and you don't take any notice of me.

  I will catch your ears. I will catch your ears like this. Listen to me. Jorgius is 78 now, Effiania 69, but there's no question of them stopping. Maybe they'll find（找到） a couple of really big fish today, but their nets（网） have been empty for days. We used to catch a lot of fish.

  We still dream of them, but catch nothing. We're too old to start over. Our pensions（养老金） are low. I get 400 euros a month. Jorgius does too. That's not enough to live off.

  When we catch a few fish, we cook them. It saves us a trip to the supermarket, at least. But this time they don't even catch enough to cover the gasoline（汽油） costs. Terrible. A really poor catch. What can I say?

  That we've caught fish, we've caught practically（实际上） nothing. That won't fetch anything. It's hardly（几乎不） enough for a family lunch. What can I say? Their catches have steadily（平稳地） dwindled（缩小） over the last decade（十年）. Some fish have become rare（稀薄的）.

  For example, they hardly come across mackerel（鲭（产于北大西洋）） anymore. The Mediterranean（地中海） contains some 750 species of fish. Many are threatened（威胁）. 93% of fish stocks（树干） are overfished, according（使一致） to an EU study. Scorpion fish. Little scorpion fish.

  Who's going to buy them? The fishmonger might give us three euros for them, but no more. Today doesn't seem to be Efianina's day. The fish are too small to sell to the fishmonger, and there are too few of them. Not enough for her daughter's toverna either. They are not even very special fish.

  This is a striped red mullet. It fetches 20 euros a kilo. This one will fetch three euros. All of this kind do. This one here is a scorpion fish. The big ones fetch 15 euros, but a small one like this, only three.

  Still, it's ideal for making fish soup, a caca viar, even if Efianina's daughter Despinal isn't so keen（锋利的）. I don't like seeing the fish alive. I pity them. Once my father turned up with grey mullet for me to gut（取出内脏）, they really squeaked（告密）. I told my father, never do that again. Now we have to add some salt.

  It's just enough for a family lunch. Here's our fish soup. Efianina's mother, Marianti, says they caught much more in the past when they fished with dynamite. Do you remember when they caught Yorgios? He had admitted（承认） to using dynamite. A really great catch with big fish.

  He had to go to court（法院）. They acquitted him because he had admitted to using dynamite. Really. We had done something illegal（[法] 非法的）, but we had no choice. We were really desperate（不顾一切的） for the money. We needed money for our daughter's wedding.

  And then it's time for a song about fishing. How many boats? What kind of nets are used? Ek de Yorgis collects data for the Greek Fisheries Research Institute. He knows there's illegal fishing and few protected areas in Greek waters. In France, Italy and Spain, it's the MPAs, the marine protected areas, that seems to work very, very good.

  For the fishermen and the environment, these always go combined. In Greece, we haven't succeeded in doing that kind of management. People are afraid. People are skeptical. They don't trust in Greece. They don't trust（相信） the state.

  And the state doesn't have the willing to watch the sea. For example, this area may be now for a lot of years. The port police maybe don't have a boat for ten years now, here in the port（港）. So actually how they will do it. Ek de also lives in Mestar. Efiania and Yorgis trust him.

  Do you know anything about the trawler in Apotheka Bay? Is it Turkish? It's bigger than ours. They were fishing last night. Were they working with lights? The boat was pulling some smaller ones.

  I didn't see any lights, but they were travelling up and down all night long. I didn't understand what they were doing. Looking for fish. That's bad news. The couple don't have a chance against the big vessels. 97% of Greek fishing boats are small.

  They account for half of the fish caught. 3% are big trawlers. They catch the other half. Holy Saint Nicholas. They could certainly deal with some help from the patron saint. According to Yorgias, Thursdays are usually unlucky days.