§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Lord Advocate, having regard to the fact that the Atlantic seaboard of the island of Lewis is not included in the limits of the North Sea as fixed by the North Sea, Convention. 1882, will he consider the advisability of amending the 10th section of The Sea. Fisheries Regulation (Scotland) Act, 1895, so that it may be unnecessary to obtain the sanction of the States Signatories of the Convention in regard to the making of bye-laws rendering beam and other trawling illegal within 13 miles of those parts of the Scottish coasts which are not included in the limits of the North Sea?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. GRAHAM MURRAY,) ButeshireThe Government cannot at present come under an obligation to introduce any legislation, dealing with the matter referred to.