HC Deb 23 July 1946 vol 425 cc1859-60
37. Lieut.-Commander Clark Hutchison

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland why, in view of the serious cuts which poultry keepers will have to make in their livestock owing to lack of feeding-stuffs, he is not taking steps to use all fish which is not available for human consumption for the production of fish meal for poultry instead of allowing surplus fish to be dumped in the sea.

Mr. Westwood

Full use is made by the fishing industry of by-product factories for the conversion of fish into fish meal. The quantity of fish dumped in the sea during the first six months of this year has been very small, and amounted to only one-twentieth of r per cent. of the quantity of fish landed. It was not an economic proposition to transport this relatively small quantity to a factory.