§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish figures showing the quantity of nephrops used to produce scampi landed or imported into the United Kingdom over the last five years; and whether he is able to estimate what landings can be anticipated for the rest of the year.
§ Mr. Curry[holding answer 19 March 1990]: We do not collect the figures requested.
However a proportion of landings and imports of nephrops into the United Kingdom is used to produce scampi. In particular, nephrops landed as tails, as opposed to landed whole, are mostly used to produce scampi. It is too early in the year to estimate landings and imports for 1990 but figures for the last five years are as follows:
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tonnes Landings (whole weight equivalent) Total Of which tails (estimate) 1Imports 1985 24,858 n.a. 90 1986 25,607 (16,110) 47 1987 24,424 (12,765) 217 1988 27,513 (16,314) 351 21989 27,031 (15,417) 415 Sources:
Fisheries Departments Statistics Units.
Her Majesty's Customs and Excise Overseas Trade Statistics.
1Imported weight; whole nephrops and tails are not separately recorded in import data.
2Provisional.