Mr. Michael Desmond:

In west Cork, many processors have continued to buy it but the price has been reduced four times from May to November. Traditionally, the price of brown crab and shrimp should reach its height at Christmas. This year, however, they were not buying them at all at Christmas, so when we would expect to get the highest price at Christmas, we were unable to sell them. Mr. Menarry is a brown crab fisherman. He might have something to add in respect of the situation relating to fishing brown crab.