Mr. John Menarry:

To put it in context, most of the European quota is taken in the Mediterranean. What they do is catch them, put them into cages and feed them. However, now when the north-west herring opens now in October and November, we will have cases where the bluefin tuna are swimming about. When the fish come in, the inshore boats do not catch them until after they have spawned because these last few years there has been no difference in price, and it is more conservation-friendly to allow them to spawn before they are caught. If there is no difference in price, why would we do it the other way about? What happens to a lot of that herring is that it is block frozen.

It is what the tuna cannot eat when they are here. When the tuna are caught and put into the cages in the Mediterranean, that herring is shipped over there to feed those tuna in the cages. It is not a case of what they eat here. We are shipping it over behind them.