§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)I beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether arrangements will be made in next year's Estimates to provide the Fishery Board with a cruiser for the protection of the fishing industry on the North-East Coast of Scotland?
§ THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (Sir G. TREVELYAN,) Glasgow, BridgetonThe Fishery Board of Scotland have now, with the recent addition of the new steam cruiser, two steamers engaged in the protection of the fishing industry, one on the East and one on the West Coast of Scotland, all the year round, besides the assistance of several of Her Majesty's gunboats during the summer fishing season. The new steam cruiser, the purchase of which has been provided for in this year's Estimates, has already done good service in the prevention and detection of illegal trawling, and it is not proposed at present to provide the Fishery Board with another such vessel.
§ In answer to a further question put by Mr. WEIR,
§ SIR G. TREVELYANsaid, that four trawlers had been brought in in a very short space of time—a record not beaten in any other part of the British Islands. He would see that the service was kept up to the mark.