Dr. Cecil Beamish:

That is a somewhat philosophical conversation. Legally, under the Common Fisheries Policy, CFP, the waters are deemed as European waters. I know everybody refers to them as Irish waters. Our responsibilities are for control and management of that 200-mile zone, which is managed under the Common Fisheries Policy. It is a complex debate. The UK would not be subject to the CFP so it would manage its own zone. The details of who temporary cessation might apply to have to be determined because we do not know the extent of the cessation, what is impacted, what is displaced and what cannot be caught here. All of that work is going on behind the scenes. It will not happen on day one. The focus of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund is on the vessels, the impact on them and on the crewmen. The perception is that workers in the processing sector would be on the social insurance scheme. The work is often seasonal in many factories, including in the pelagic factories. The primary impacts will not be on pelagic fisheries in 2019. It has been extremely busy for them. The agreed management arrangement for the national quota was to facilitate the catching of that quota in the first three months of the year. The focus is likely to be more on the prawn fleet and some of the white fish fleets, which will be more impacted in that situation.