Mr. Michael Foley:

From a NIFA point of view, we are delighted with the six mile zone. It will give opportunities to the inshore boats. We took a big hit last year on pollock. It was zero TAC. I am not so sure about ICES. I am not here to question it but last year was zero TAC and this year is 3,000 TAC. In my experience of stock recovery, it does not come up from zero to 3,000 within 12 months. It is quite possible it is making a mistake - maybe not, we will have to see where the science goes. Inshore boats are inshore. They cannot go up into the fields and are not big enough to go off. There has to be something there for them. We cannot be taking the dirty end of the stick all the time. That is what we have been doing as far back as I can remember. The inshore boats get the short straw. Any more than that I cannot really say.