§ MR. SUTHERLAND (Elgin Burghs)I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland, whether it was owing to insufficient evidence or on other grounds that, out of nineteen vessels reported from July, 1907, to the end of January this year for illegal trawling in the Moray Firth, only one prosecution took place.
§ MR. SINCLAIRThe reason why prosecution has not followed detection of trawlers engaged in fishing in the Moray Firth is in many instances that the persons so engaged were not British subjects.