Ms Melanie Gomes:

It would be a wonderful thing if the industry would get behind this. Monitoring, enforcement, fully documented fisheries and all those things come into it. There is a lot of complexity in that. With the herring, if it has recovered, I do not know anything beyond the advice I got earlier on, which was produced by the Marine Institute. I am not on the sea every day so I cannot really answer that, but I am coming from a place where I am speaking for future generations. Because I am an ecologist rather than anything else, I can see more of what happens if we ignore scientific advice and keep taking without respecting the biodiversity of the earth. It is important to be more precautionary. Of course it does come back to all the different member states, but we are here in Ireland and there are so many positive things that actually could be done through actions with the locals and that kind of thing. If these things we are calling for were actually put in place it would help Ireland economically in the long term.