Dr. Cecil Beamish:

It is only being done since December 2016. The maximum grant amount was doubled in May. I do not have that information to hand but I do not think it has been taken up. There are about 1.2 million tonnes being produced in Norway and it has not moved in large scale to recirculating systems and neither has Scotland which produces 160,000 tonnes a year. We have to compete in those markets. It is a competitive market scenario. It is still a young industry and it is evolving. We have been farming for thousands of years but we have only been farming at sea for the past 30 or 40 years. The species, the technology and the ways of handling things are evolving constantly. The demand for aquaculture product is almost exponential. The EU is importing two thirds of all the seafood it needs which is not a sustainable position going forward so we will see a growth. We are seeing rapid growth globally. Farmed seafood is very close to exceeding captured seafood. Captured seafood has its biological limits. Globally, we will see a big growth in aquaculture. We are seeing it year on year. It is a very young industry. The way it is done and the species involved will evolve.