Ms Sinéad McSherry:

I spoke earlier to the young fisher scheme, which is about bringing fishers into the system and supporting them, but equally, a number of other skills are being trained through BIM and, obviously, the funding comes from the Minister and the Department. Those skills range from the processing and handling of the fish and basic fishmonger skills to the culinary skills that go with developing and selling good product, and a lot of those skills are being developed. Equally, on the aquaculture side, a number of different training courses are available, again to try to bring forward aquaculture operators in terms of their husbandry and the technology that is available to them. The Department supports a lot of innovation spending and training, through BIM, in aquaculture technology. This feeds into one of the issues we discussed earlier. Given the lack of raw material from wild catch, we need to try to substitute that with farmed fish, and those specific skills are being delivered by the State agency and funded by the Department to grow that interest and skill set.