§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland, having regard to the fact that the quantity of line-caught fish landed in Scotland during the year 1905 was 50 per cent, less than ten years ago, and that this decline is attributable to the fishing beds being injured through illegal trawling, will he state when he expects to be able to provide the Fishery Board with another cruiser for sea police service.
§ ME. SINCLAIRThe quantity of line-caught fish in Scotland has declined by the transfer of the white fishing to trawling, which is a more productive and effective method of fishing, and upon the whole there has been an increase and not a decrease of the white fishing in Scotland. The Fishery Board hope to be in a position to procure a new cruiser shortly from the accumulated savings of the grant for marine superintendence.