HC Deb 31 July 1934 vol 292 cc2463-4W
Sir A. SINCLAIR

asked the President of the Board of Trade the total amount of foreign landings and imports of sea fish of all kinds, the importation of which is regulated by orders issued by him under the Sea-Fishing Industry Act, 1933, in the year ended 31st December, 1933, and the total amount of fish landed and imported from the Dominions during the same period?

Dr. BURGIN

During the year 1933 the quantity of fresh or frozen fish, not of British taking, of the descriptions subject to the Sea Fishing Industry (Regulation of Landing) Order, 1933, imported into the United Kingdom and consigned from foreign countries was 2,147,528 cwts. and from British countries 15,661 cwts. The total imports of fish of all kinds consigned from British countries was 299,887 cwts.

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