§ MR. KEAY (Elgin and Nairn)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether he is aware that hardship is inflicted on the fishing population by the illegal operations of trawlers working within the proscribed limits in the Moray Firth, especially on Sundays; whether complaints have reached him regarding this matter; and whether a Government vessel could be employed to cruise in the Moray Firth with the object of preventing such breaches of the Law?
§ *THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. P. B. ROBERTSON,) Bute.I am informed that two complaints have recently been made to the Fishery Board against steam trawlers for fishing within the prescribed limits in the Moray Firth, and that they are now being investigated by the Procurator Fiscal. A Government vessel is at present employed on the East Coast, and visits the Moray Firth, as well as other parts of that coast.