Mr. Michael Foley:

The Celtic Sea herring has been on a scientific quota for the past seven or eight years, which is minimal. Basically, all we are getting is enough to take samples for the Marine Institute. As little as we have, the inshore have 105 tonnes this year. I was at a Celtic Sea herring meeting last week to decide how we are going to share out these 105 tonnes. It is minimal. You could say that has been going on since 2017 or 2018 but because the herring are gone, there is nothing coming up behind to take the slack. We are left with a hole in our income. I do not know what the real answer is. The real answer is that we have to prove that these herring have gone to the Irish Sea but, obviously, the English or the Scots will not want to hear that because as far as they are concerned, it is their fishery now as we traded it; it was a trade deal in Brexit. We traded Irish Sea herring.