§ SIR HERBERT MAXWELL (Wigton)I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland if the provisions of the Sea Fisheries Regulation (Scotland) Bill may be extended so as to apply to the white fishing industry on the Scottish shores of the Solway Firth, in accordance with the recommendation of the Departmental Committee which reported last year?
§ SIR G. TREVELYANIn reply to a question of the hon. Member for Wigtownshire on the 23rd February last, I stated that the Fishery Bill, which will be brought forward very shortly, relates to the general deep-sea fisheries of Scotland. When that has been disposed of, the Government will do its best to deal with the salmon fisheries, with special reference to the Tweed and to the Solway. The white fishings of the Solway are so mixed up with the salmon and the general fishing of the Solway that they cannot be taken apart.
§ SIR H. MAXWELLIs the right hon. Gentleman aware there is nothing in the recommendations of the Committee over which I had the honour to preside to prevent the extension of the existing regulations?
§ SIR G. TREVELYANIt is impossible to deal with this question by itself.