Mr. Michael Foley:

It is a lovely fish. With hook and line you are playing with the fish. Environmentally it is 100% with no bycatch.

It is there outside our doorstep. I went to the Bay of Biscay when I was young to fish tuna in a 12 m boat because I wanted to. I should not have been there but I did it because I wanted to fish tuna. It is now outside my own doorstep and I cannot fish it. It does not make sense. The fish are there in Cork Harbour and Waterford Harbour and all of the harbours along the south and west coasts. They come into the harbours. We look over the back of the wall at them. We will be looking at the Spanish and French catching while we are not allowed to catch. That needs to change.