Deputy Eamon Ó Cuív:

Bord Iascaigh Mhara should know the average catch of each lobster fisherman as the fishermen sell the lobster to registered buyers. The boats are registered, which means I cannot claim to have lost pots because I do not have a registered boat or potting licence. If, as an alternative to producing the receipts for the lobster pots, applicants were allowed to produce receipts for the sale of lobster in the past two or three years, one would get a fair measure of the activity level in recent years.