WEBVTT 00:00:07.683 --> 00:00:10.564 The beach there by Ribeira da Barca 00:00:10.564 --> 00:00:13.105 It's there that most kids are playing 00:00:13.258 --> 00:00:20.080 The ball we made out of cloth and any scraps, so it wasn't a ball like this 00:00:20.080 --> 00:00:26.126 Before i moved to Sweden I played football in Ribeira da Barca on the beach, like all the other kids, 00:00:27.680 --> 00:00:29.960 and then when i moved here I started to play in teams. 00:00:31.268 --> 00:00:34.201 Once, there was a lot of sand. 00:00:34.201 --> 00:00:36.762 All of this was covered by sand. 00:00:38.901 --> 00:00:42.562 1999 I went back and I hadn't been back in ten years 00:00:42.901 --> 00:00:46.157 and I discovered that the beach was gone 00:00:46.818 --> 00:00:50.313 People saw that they could make a bit of money, so... 00:00:50.898 --> 00:00:55.890 one took sand and sold it for building houses over the entire island. 00:01:00.198 --> 00:01:02.415 Nowadays we must go into the sea 00:01:02.415 --> 00:01:03.960 and take it to land. 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:06.902 There are many youths that are dependent on this work. 00:01:06.902 --> 00:01:08.230 There is noting else. 00:01:08.984 --> 00:01:11.331 I got sad and cried, 00:01:11.331 --> 00:01:16.432 so it was awful because the was not what I had expected. 00:01:17.647 --> 00:01:22.240 One has to eat, one has to pay bills, the kids have to go to school, 00:01:22.240 --> 00:01:23.755 so of course you need money. 00:01:24.401 --> 00:01:28.347 So if there is no fishing you find other alternatives. 00:01:28.347 --> 00:01:29.778 Some gather sand. 00:01:37.037 --> 00:01:40.936 Fish for Ribeira da Barca means like oil for other places, 00:01:40.936 --> 00:01:43.160 so it's... It's their money. 00:01:44.514 --> 00:01:47.322 The fish nowdays. There's not much of it. 00:01:49.753 --> 00:01:52.620 I don't know why, but the fish nowdays... 00:01:52.620 --> 00:01:55.705 Once upon a time there was lots of fish. 00:01:56.213 --> 00:01:57.566 Lots of it! 00:01:59.258 --> 00:02:02.778 There are days when I make 00:02:04.332 --> 00:02:08.201 50 Euros, 30 Euros, 20 Euros. 00:02:08.201 --> 00:02:13.206 There are also days when I go to sea, and make nothing, 00:02:13.468 --> 00:02:16.040 because when I go, I find no fish. 00:02:29.671 --> 00:02:33.368 There is a fishing treaty with the European Union. 00:02:33.368 --> 00:02:38.105 They are allowed to fish almost 5000 tons 00:02:38.105 --> 00:02:46.160 and for each extra ton there is a fee of about 60 Euros. 00:02:48.483 --> 00:02:55.311 Day by day the catches are diminishing, because much fishing is done illegally 00:02:56.019 --> 00:02:59.480 and many don't declare their catches. 00:03:00.772 --> 00:03:05.178 Those foreign boats come here to Cape Verde to fish. 00:03:06.625 --> 00:03:09.415 They have other resources. 00:03:09.415 --> 00:03:13.956 Much more efficient than those we use here in Cape Verde. 00:03:14.233 --> 00:03:16.975 They catch a lot of fish. 00:03:16.975 --> 00:03:22.480 I feel that they are stealing fish here in Cape Verde. 00:03:25.880 --> 00:03:28.225 I cannot say that we are being exploited, 00:03:28.225 --> 00:03:34.920 There is a treaty which has been ratified by the Cape Verdean Government, 00:03:34.920 --> 00:03:39.160 but these people should pay a fair price for the resource. 00:03:50.052 --> 00:03:54.868 It's sad that this big giants take from the little people that can't do anything, 00:03:55.868 --> 00:03:59.909 It just shows how reality is. 00:04:00.925 --> 00:04:03.828 Who the big thieves are...