Mr. Michael Desmond:

It is a scandal what Irish consumers are eating. There is a particular product out there called pangasius. I do not want to name the supermarket but it is in all its fishcakes. That fish is farmed in sewers. There are 2,000 factory workers and the excrement from those workers goes into the pond to feed the fish that are brought over here. It is nuts what is in our supermarkets at the moment. We are trying to sell and then the market just collapses and we are told, "Ah sure, there is so much product". They are putting this stuff against ours. Mention was made of sprat being used to feed farmed salmon. None of us supports farmed salmon. Wild-caught fish cannot be compared with 10,000 fish swimming around inside a cage and the dead zone that is created around that. Argentina, with half its population living below the poverty line and inflation in treble digits, has banned salmon farming because of the damage it was causing. In Ireland, farmed salmon is for sale against our product. It is nuts when we consider the toxicity of it compared with the wild-caught product we have.