Mr. Enda Conneely:

As far as I am aware, there is an anomaly involving a 400-tonne hooking line mackerel fisher. You cannot just keep throwing out one thing that happened once. I could see the point if they were overshooting every year but as for gearing up for that level of fishing, I am not sure whether it is really worth it for a lot of them to do it. Some of that fish gets caught further north along the coast as it comes in so it is being managed a bit but not that well. Other jurisdictions allocate a lot of quota. The last time I checked a number of years ago, in Germany, anything the small boats cannot catch still stays in Germany. It will go to the bigger boats later in the year.