Fight to Heal Kenmare Bay

Описание: Fight to Heal Kenmare Bay is an original song I composed for this exact moment. After years of pressure from local people, the government finally acted and the bay was given a pause from pair trawling. That pause matters. Not symbolically, but materially. For the first time in a long time the damage has stopped.

Since pair trawling ceased, small but visible signs of life have begun to return. Dolphins are reappearing. Birds are staying longer. The water feels less empty. This is not evidence that the bay was never harmed. It is evidence of how intense the pressure was, and how quickly life responds when that pressure is removed. This is not recovery; it is an early and fragile response to restraint.

The video focuses on that fragility. It does not romanticise renewal or exaggerate change. It shows how easily this moment could be undone. Kenmare Bay is responding because exploitation stopped. If it resumes, this response will not continue. That is why the current appeal by pair trawler interests is so dangerous. They are attempting to overturn the ban in order to return to the same practices that caused the damage in the first place, even as the first signs of life are reappearing. Using early signs of recovery as justification to resume extraction turns healing into an excuse for further harm. It collapses the logic of protection entirely.

This song is a statement that protection works and that public pressure matters. Life returns when people stop taking everything. Kenmare Bay is not asking for miracles, only space and time. We might be a small town, but we are paying attention. This is our water, our responsibility and our future. We will fight to heal Kenmare Bay.