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I wrote this song to create awareness about how the quota and Super Trawlers have effected the fishing Industry in Ireland (5 Reasons Why Supertrawlers Should be Banned) 1. Any marine animals or sea birds who are unfortunate enough to be in the path of these trawlers will be caught in nets (many of which are big enough to enclose 13 jumbo jets) then sucked on-board through a giant hose to be killed. 2.Super trawlers are meant to only target small forage and bait fish but, because their nets are so massive, that restriction is impossible to regulate. The reality is when you're using nets big enough to trap the HMS Titanic, you're going to catch and kill everything that moves in the water. Our Irish Navy couldn't board the vessel because of bad weather conditions and height ? 3. Environment Ministers in Europe said they could impose "tough" conditions on super trawlers on behalf of "non-target" marine animals... while still apparently allowing 10 seals (per day!) to be killed as 'by-catch'. With casualty numbers like that, entire family groups of protected seals could be wiped out in the blink of an eye. 4.Super trawlers can drag their nets through the water for several hours, if a dolphin, shark or turtle becomes enmeshed it's highly unlikely that they'll be able to escape. These animals will then either drown — or be crushed to death by the sheer weight of the fish around them. Once they are trapped there hovered up with all the other fish. This is absolutely unacceptable. 5. Legal (and illegal) heavily subsidised super trawlers have decimated West Africa's fish population and sea beds, all in order to feed Europe's insatiable, and unsustainable, desire for seafood. Adding insult to injury, these foreign-owned super trawler companies also then sell fish back to the local fisherman (Imports)who can no longer fend for themselves and their families. It's not just West Africa that should be concerned. There are super trawlers circling off the coast of Ireland right now. It's like a ''harvest '' everything is lifted in there path and now they are decimating Irish fish stocks around the coast of Ireland. Please help our campaign. '''BAN SUPERTRAWLERS''' Gabby Fitzgerald