Mr. Aodh O'Donnell:

I will let the others speak but I am firmly of the view that we have zonal attachment. The fish spawn in our waters. The mackerel do. The blue whiting migrates south to the west of Ireland to spawn and a big percentage of the catch of blue whiting is caught in these waters. Zonal attachment is an argument we can use. It has been used and abused by the Norwegians who have overfished the mackerel stock. It is our stock; they have taken our fish in their own waters and now they have had to do a three-year deal with the UK to catch the inflated stock quotas in UK waters. It is crazy.