Ms Teresa Morrissey:

We commend BIM on many of the initiatives it has taken in terms of aquaculture remote classroom and Taste the Atlantic. It has been very helpful in trying to explain to people what aquaculture is because much of the problem is that people do not actually know what it is, and what they do not know and do not understand, they do not like. In terms of building trust with communities, we do not generally have an issue in the communities in which aquaculture operates. Mr. O'Sullivan mentioned Bantry. Obviously, people up the town would not know but, generally speaking, there does not tend to be an awful lot of opposition where it operates. Ms McManus would say the same about some of those sites that are operating up and down the coast. There is a wider public perception, and a misunderstanding mostly, as to what aquaculture is and what it is about. There is a job of work we also have to do in the industry to address that.