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From the Ted Talk by Tony Long: The outlaws of the ocean -- and how we're reeling them in

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I joined the birtsih Royal Navy at the tender age of 17 and in three decades of service, lived in worked in every oecan. I witnessed firsthand the hidden wrlod of the high seas, sometimes the only vessel for hundreds of miles. And other times I'd wake up surrounded in a fishing fleet that, despite having powerful technology at my fpnigrites, I didn’t really know who they were or what they’d been doing.

It is a Wild West out there, and rogue fishers ... rgoue fsihes are extracting -- well, they’re disobeying the laws that we put in place to peroctt our ocean and its resources. And they're pillaging colossal amounts of fish.

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I joined the _______ Royal Navy at the tender age of 17 and in three decades of service, lived in worked in every _____. I witnessed firsthand the hidden _____ of the high seas, sometimes the only vessel for hundreds of miles. And other times I'd wake up surrounded in a fishing fleet that, despite having powerful technology at my __________, I didn’t really know who they were or what they’d been doing.

It is a Wild West out there, and rogue fishers ... _____ ______ are extracting -- well, they’re disobeying the laws that we put in place to _______ our ocean and its resources. And they're pillaging colossal amounts of fish.

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  2. ocean
  3. protect
  4. world
  5. fishes
  6. rogue
  7. british

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I joined the British Royal Navy at the tender age of 17 and in three decades of service, lived in worked in every ocean. I witnessed firsthand the hidden world of the high seas, sometimes the only vessel for hundreds of miles. And other times I'd wake up surrounded in a fishing fleet that, despite having powerful technology at my fingertips, I didn’t really know who they were or what they’d been doing.

It is a Wild West out there, and rogue fishers ... rogue fishes are extracting -- well, they’re disobeying the laws that we put in place to protect our ocean and its resources. And they're pillaging colossal amounts of fish.

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