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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...