§ Mr. WEIRasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in view of a resolution passed at a meeting of fish-curers, fishermen, and others held at Stornoway on 30th May, 1908, urging that His Majesty's Government should endeavour to effect an international agreement under which inshore waters, spawning banks, and other suitable areas for breeding purposes would be closed against beam and other trawling, will he state what action he proposes to take in the matter?
§ Sir E. GREYThis is a question on which the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs is not in a postion to add anything to what has been said as to the general policy of His Majesty's Government.