§ 63. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamiltonasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, what research his Department has made into the possibility of operating quick-freeze methods in fishing boats at sea.
§ The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works (Mr. Hugh Molson)The Torry Research Station of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has developed methods of quick freezing part of a trawler's catch of white fish at sea. Freezing equipment, for this purpose, has been designed and tried out on the Department's own research vessel. Arrangements to try out the equipment on a distant water commercial trawler are now being discussed with the White Fish Authority and the distant water section of the fish industry.