Mr. Enda Conneely:

I will ask Mr. Bonner to deal with the pollock issue. The salmon issue had a huge impact on island fishing, especially in Donegal. I fished salmon years ago but, then, the management of the fishery at the time was not great. Monofilament net was illegal to fish with but it was legal to have it everywhere else. If we are going to have a law, we should have ways to fish. There were 19 of us in a small operation at the time, and salmon would take us away from lobster fishing for those six weeks. The seals would get just as much fish as was being taken by the smaller boats.

With regard to salmon and Iceland's contribution, we should have thought of this when Iceland was looking for access to European waters. Last year, we were the only producer organisation that strenuously objected to it because we have enough fishing effort in there without bringing in third countries that have not even joined the EU. We need to look at salmon because according to the latest information we have, it has not improved the stock . We can check it out to see whether there are any ways of doing it. Some of the people took compensation and some did not, on the understanding they could go back to fishing when it became viable again. Nothing seems to have happened on this and we would like to have a look at it.