§ 13. Mr. G. Campbellasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the proposals for organising brown trout fishing in the report of the Hunter Committee.
§ Mr. BuchanI should prefer not to comment on individual recommendations until my right hon. Friend has completed his consideration of the Report as a whole.
§ Mr. CampbellAlthough some of the decisions of the Hunter Committee on salmon will require time for the careful consideration necessary, why cannot the Government start action on the trout recommendations, as urged from this side in the debate last summer, since this would be of great help to the Scottish tourist industry?
§ Mr. BuchanI am interested to know that hon. Members opposite differentiate between salmon and trout, but the Report should be seen as a whole—
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithThey are different fish.
§ Mr. BuchanI recognise that they are different fish and that there are different attitudes to these different fish from certain people. Our view is that the Report should be considered as a whole, with all its implications.