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Sandgrains Trailer

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    The beach there by Ribeira da Barca
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    It's there that most kids are playing
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    The ball we made out of cloth and any scraps, so it wasn't a ball like this
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    Before i moved to Sweden I played football in Ribeira da Barca on the beach, like all the other kids,
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    and then when i moved here I started to play in teams.
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    Once, there was a lot of sand.
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    All of this was covered by sand.
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    1999 I went back and I hadn't been back in ten years
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    and I discovered that the beach was gone
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    People saw that they could make a bit of money, so...
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    one took sand and sold it for building houses over the entire island.
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    Nowadays we must go into the sea
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    and take it to land.
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    There are many youths that are dependent on this work.
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    There is noting else.
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    I got sad and cried,
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    so it was awful because the was not what I had expected.
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    One has to eat, one has to pay bills, the kids have to go to school,
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    so of course you need money.
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    So if there is no fishing you find other alternatives.
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    Some gather sand.
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    Fish for Ribeira da Barca means like oil for other places,
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    so it's... It's their money.
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    The fish nowdays. There's not much of it.
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    I don't know why, but the fish nowdays...
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    Once upon a time there was lots of fish.
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    Lots of it!
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    There are days when I make
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    50 Euros, 30 Euros, 20 Euros.
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    There are also days when I go to sea, and make nothing,
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    because when I go, I find no fish.
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    There is a fishing treaty with the European Union.
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    They are allowed to fish almost 5000 tons
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    and for each extra ton there is a fee of about 60 Euros.
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    Day by day the catches are diminishing, because much fishing is done illegally
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    and many don't declare their catches.
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    Those foreign boats come here to Cape Verde to fish.
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    They have other resources.
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    Much more efficient than those we use here in Cape Verde.
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    They catch a lot of fish.
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    I feel that they are stealing fish here in Cape Verde.
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    I cannot say that we are being exploited,
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    There is a treaty which has been ratified by the Cape Verdean Government,
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    but these people should pay a fair price for the resource.
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    It's sad that this big giants take from the little people that can't do anything,
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    It just shows how reality is.
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    Who the big thieves are...
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Sandgrains Trailer
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English
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