§ MR. ROWNTREE (Scarborough)asked the Secretary to the Board of Trade, Whether, in view of the importance attached to the systematic collection of sea fishery statistics by the Royal 43 Commission of 1864, the Parliamentary Commission of 1878, and the Royal Commission of 1885, and of the time which has elapsed since the receipt of two of these recommendations, the Board of Trade will present to Parliament at an early date the statistics supplied to the Department by the Coastguards and other officials at the different fishing ports and villages in England during the past year; and whether the Government will also obtain a further Return of the tonnage of fish conveyed inland by the various Railway Companies for the year 1886?
§ THE SECRETARY (Baron HENRY DE WORMS) (Liverpool, East Toxteth)The hon. Member will find that the information he desires is contained in the Statistical Tables and Memorandum relating to the Sea Fisheries of the United Kingdom—a Return which was laid on the Table of the House on the 14th instant, and which will very shortly be circulated. A monthly Return as to English Sea Fisheries has also been issued and circulated by the Board of Trade since the beginning of last year; and this Return is now published monthly, along with a corresponding Return for Scotland supplied by the Scotch Fishery Board in the Board of Trade Journal.