Mr. Michael Keatinge:

We are almost finished. I do not have the 1972 BIM report with me. I used to carry it around. The fact is sometimes forgotten that we landed 25,000 tonnes of fish in that year. Last year Irish boats landed 250,000 tonnes of fish. It is an evolving industry. Of course Killybegs has gone through its ups and downs and probably will always go through ups and downs being the commodity-type fisheries operation that it is, but we must not lose sight of the fact that it houses probably one of the best, most modern fleets in Europe. While this is not to take from the role of the more than 2,000 small vessels, the 20 or so very large vessels that effectively run much of that operation are world class. They have developed new fisheries since we joined the EU for things like horse mackerel, blue whiting and boarfish among others. What we are now landing would be the envy of many others. Scotland has-----