Ms Caroline Bocquel:

BIM's role is really to develop the sector. It is our role to help operators to optimise the licence capacity that exists in this country, so we are very much focused on the aquaculture side. We are very much focused on trying to help operators to lower their operating costs. For example, we have a feed barge with renewable energy, which is very important. We are examining survivability. We have had a multiyear programme involving a bubble curtain, which is effectively a perforated bar around a salmon pen that blows bubbles when invasive species come along. That has proven to be enormously effective and has saved millions of euro in stock. It is something that the producers are-----