Ms Susan Steele:

To reply further to the questions asked by Deputies Thomas Pringle and Noel Harrington about the benefits of inshore seafood and how it could be legislated for, the legislation at point of sale simply requires identification of fish from the north-east Atlantic, which means from Iceland down to Spain. Aquaculture products are labelled to indicate that they are farmed or non-farmed produce. The legislation we regulate does not allow for inshore fisheries products to be labelled, nor does it provide for how it is labelled. However, inshore fishermen can work with local companies, restaurants and hotels. BIM will work with them to develop products for sale locally. It is not really a legislative issue as much as a product development and marketing issue.