Mr. Robert McCabe:

No. There is not a good uptake. There is a very poor uptake. For reasons that are perhaps historical, people do not like others to know where they are fishing. We probably named the system badly because having the word "monitoring" in it means it is not a good name. We really want people to have their own data. If we think of the benefit that data brings, it brings a benefit to the fishermen, because they can say here is what they have done in the last three years. It also brings a benefit to the DMAP process, because the people involved in it can tell where the different types of fishing are concentrated.

The data brings a benefit to ORE because those involved can look at it and have a strong evidential chain around the activity. There is also a natural suspicion of data relating to where a person stores their vessel and we are pressing quite hard to get a solution to that. It is one of the things we need to address because it is important and we understand where the concerns stem from.