Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I agree. I live near the Killary, one of the best places for mussels. Difficulties arose there in connection with licensing but it is totally natural. One has only to hang a rope out and mussels will grow on it. I have always believed that we have an obsession with fin fish farming and particularly with salmon which by its nature is an extensively migratory species. We would be better off concentrating on the things that are natural where we have natural advantages and do not have to put artificial feed into the sea. Has any examination taken place of producing fin fish on land so that all the stuff at the bottom of the pool can be collected, there is no risk of interfering with anything else and water can be filtered? Has there been any examination of that because there seems to be much greater acceptance of the concept of on-land fin fish aquaculture?