Dr. Cecil Beamish:

The EU and those states have many trade inter-relationships. Norway is part of the European Economic Area, EEA, and has access to the European markets. It has relationships with the EU outside of mackerel and, therefore, that wider political discussion leaves open possibilities. The UK is also a party in this regard. It is now outside the EU and it is a large mackerel-fishing nation as well. The EU and the UK are aligned in their position in trying to reach an agreement. This is a political issue and perhaps I should not speak further on it. The 2014 agreement took about three years to be reached. These issues are not quick or easy. As Dr. Kelly said, everybody has been lucky with the degree of recruitment into mackerel but that could change. That has at least afforded some time.