§ 7. Mr. C. S. Taylorasked the Minister of Food whether he can give an estimate of the quantity of fish caught by British trawlers which has been sold for fish meal, manure or has been wasted due to catches being landed by foreign trawlers, or because there has been a release of fish from cold store by his Department.
§ Mr. S. N. EvansI am afraid that it is impossible to make any estimate of this sort. There are many reasons why the whole catch of British fish does not always find a market. In the last six months, two-thirds of the white fish sent to meal factories went in November and December, when there was some bunching of heavy landings by British vessels, but when foreign landings were not exceptionally heavy. Except during the past few days my Department has not sold any frozen fish since last summer. Most of the stocks of frozen fish are held by private traders.