Sean Doran

Yeah.

What I miss more is the people.

It used to take me an hour and a half or two hours to walk up and down the harbour because you'd be stopping and chatting to the guys from all over the coast, you know, the Galway lads and the Greencastle lads and the Castletown Bearmen and all that sort of stuff.

And then you'd be called about every second boat for a cup of tea and a chat or to give them a hand doing small jobs, holding the net from ending or whatever.

And all that's nearly gone.

Yeah, the middle pier, the Belgian pier, yeah.

It is used by Irish trawlers, but the Belgian boats come in, land over there, and then fish go straight on to Eulalia and straight to Belgium.

The logic of air miles and food miles and that sort of stuff doesn't really work out that, you know, in my head anyway.

Whereas, you know, we have a fleet of boats.

that if we had the quota, we could fish that fishery.

The Belgian quota is just over 400 tonnes and the Irish quota is less than 50 for black salt.

You know, one of the main fisheries left in the Irish Sea that's fully viable.

And we would just like some more of that ourselves.

I mean, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask.

And, I mean, when we have boats and the men who can go and fish it, why should we be looking out our window, looking at boats catching fish that we could catch and our boats are tied up for lack of quota?