§ MR. WILLIAMSONI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland if scientific investigations of the fisheries in the Moray Firth have been attempted; and whether the presence and operations of trawlers have interfered with the results of these investigations.
§ THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (Mr. SINCLAIR,) ForfarshireScientific investigations were conducted in the Moray Firth, but the investigations originally contemplated—involving a comparison between a protected area and the open sea—have been rendered ineffectual by the presence of numbers of foreign trawlers in the Firth.