Mr. Eamon Dixon:

We also need to take into consideration that the licences we have are all the same. They are all polyvalent fishing licences at the end of the day, apart from some very specific ones. Even the small 1% share of mackerel that we have was called an allocation, so therefore it gave us no entitlement. Pollock, which a lot of the inshore vessels were catching, was not considered for it. We were given no entitlement for it. It was almost as if the actual species that could get support were hand-picked and the ones that the inshore fishermen were fishing were left out. That is almost what it boiled down to at the end of the day, which was crazy really.