Professor Tasman Crowe:

That is an interesting question. I do not have a glib answer to it but it would be a question to ask perhaps of the expert advisory group when it is formulated. It is important to talk about the resourcing because it is non-trivial to do this well and it does need resourcing. In the group I am working with now, it is quickly emerging that there are very substantial data gaps for lots of species and habitats for the Irish Sea and that we are going to have to do what we can with what is there, which will not be ideal. By the end of April we will be making recommendations about which data gaps most urgently need filling. It is a sort of targeted process. We need to put the work into figuring out where the data gaps are before figuring out how best to fill them. In many cases it is basic data on where things are that is going to be-----