HC Deb 14 July 1931 vol 255 cc210-1 The following Question stood upon the Order Paper in the name of Mr. MACLEAN: 3. To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he is aware that foreign trawlers are being permitted to trawl in the Firth of Clyde, also British trawlers; and whether he will close the Firth to British and foreign trawlers?
Mr. MACLEAN

I ask leave to withdraw this question. There seems to have been a mistake in printing it. I wished to ask why British trawlers were being excluded from the Firth, and foreign trawlers permitted there; but the question, as it appears on the Paper, is in the very opposite sense.

4. Lieut.-Colonel MOORE

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the amount of fish landed at each port on the west coast of Scotland during the first six months of 1931, together with the comparable figures for 1930?

The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. William Adamson)

Statistics for the individual smaller ports are not readily available, but I shall circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT a statement giving figures for each of the districts on the West Coast and for all the principal ports, which I hope will supply the information desired by the hon. and gallant Member.

FISHERY BOARD FOR SCOTLAND.
Landings of Fish on West Coast of Scotland, January—June, 1931 and 1930.—Statement of the quantity and value of wet fish and value of shell fish landed at the principal fishing ports on the West Coast of Scotland with totals for the Fishery Districts on this Coast and for the Coast as a whole.
— January to June, 1931. January to June, 1930.
Wet Fish. Shell Fish. Wet Fish. Shell Fish.
Quantity. Value. Value. Quantity. Value. Value.
Cwts. £ £ Cwts. £ £
District: Stornoway … 92,871 53,528 5,519 129,657 54,951 5,181
Port: Stornoway … 84,475 48,846 269 119,819 48,507 506
District: Barra … 9,119 9,220 3,806 27,982 16,090 4,414
Port: Castlebay … 8,227 8,706 1,233 13,780 13,250 1,900
District: Loch Broom … 3,371 1,365 2,152 2,595 1,351 3,176
District: Loch Carron and Skye … 13,353 7,323 2,767 13,048 7,646 4,034
Port: Kyle … 8,799 4,435 361 7,266 4,318 161
District: Fort William … 105,632 97,607 1,719 121,006 97,674 1,985
Ports: Mallaig … 68,156 66,733 62 92,670 75,642 44
Oban … 35,658 29,772 90 26,446 20,882 63
District: Campbeltown … 16,396 6,414 1,106 4,553 3,017 975
Port: Campbeltown … 3,325 2,118 166 2,639 2,121 193
District: Inveraray … 870 381 559 2,604 1,263 912
Port: Tarbert … 341 120 150 678 346 110
District: Rothesay … 84,001 16,889 302 21,241 7,346 314
Port: Rothesay … 82,280 16,172 — 20,625 6,560 —
District: Greenock … 5,868 2,651 419 805 1,013 474
Port: Glasgow … 1,460 658 — 233 168 —
District: Ballantrae … 52,935 48,490 2,530 29,498 31,596 2,431
Ports: Ayr … 8,275 11,288 — 3,602 5,601 —
Girvan … 3,762 3,664 97 3,162 3,639 80
Stranraer … 8,244 12,364 171 8,230 11,655 144
Total Landings on West Coast 384,416 243,868 20,939 352,989 221,947 23,896