Mr. Michael Desmond:

There were legal issues over it. We are now waiting for the Minister to restart public consultation on it again. We are just waiting to see what will happen. There is a lot of misinformation with regard to the six miles, including that we wanted pair-trawling banned. We never asked for any method of fishing to be banned ever. We have members who take part in dredging, hook and line, netting, bottom trawling and everything. It was not fishermen who came up with this. It was the Department of the marine that asked inshore fishermen whether they would back a six-mile limit where boats over 18 m would stay outside it and be restricted from fishing inside it. Of course, they said yes because it would increase opportunities but now we are being told, and there are a lot of NGOs-----