Mr. Cathal Groonell:

It is not really. We would say that our allocation applies to 2018 and beyond. It may be a pilot basis for 2018 to see how it works out. Sometimes these things have to be implemented to see how they work in practice. The actual review is very precise. There was a 10,600 tonne increase for 2017 over and above 2016. It is the dividing up of that pot and it is specifically looking at how it was divided between the RSW and the polyvalent fleets, in other words, are they going to change the percentage of 87% and give a bit more to the polyvalent fleet or will they leave it alone.

Someone asked had we made a submission. We did although it did not really deal with what we are looking at here. In it, we favoured giving it to polyvalent fleet because most of the boats that we get the fish from now are in that sector. We did say that if they give more fish to the polyvalent fleet there would need to be an accompanying management regime to do something about stretching out the number of weeks of processing, for instance. There are a lot of management tools they could use to make it better for creating jobs rather than giving it to them and letting it go to the four winds.