Mr. Séamus Bonner:

Briefly, if you were fishing within certain index years, that gave you the track record starting off. The big disadvantage of that is for young people who want to start fishing. If you were not in fishing in those years, you have no way of accessing that track record or quota.

Allocating using track record is a big problem. The gist of what one of our witnesses, in 2018, Jerry Percy from Low Impact Fishers of Europe, LIFE, said was that we can allocate quota to give a good living to many people or we can do it so that a few people make a fortune.

Using track record is the latter. We need to start looking at encouraging young people into fishing so that we can continue what we have been doing for a long time on the islands.