§ SIR W. WEDDERBURNI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, pending negotiations with the North Sea Powers for the international regulation of the North Sea fisheries, he will, looking to the strained relations now existing among the different classes of fishermen, consider the propriety of arranging with those Powers for the temporary suspension of all trawling in the Moray Firth?
MR. CURZONHowever desirable such a prospect might be, Her Majesty's Government see no likelihood of being able to persuade the North Sea Powers to forego their rights of fishing outside the territorial limit in Scottish waters.