§ Mr. Mackintoshasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the number of river boards with the task of regulating fishing, and of river pollution boards in the seven Highland crofting counties.
§ Mr. RossThere are no river boards in the crofting counties with power to regulate fishing. Twenty-four District Salmon Fishery Boards have been established for the main salmon rivers in the crofting counties; their principal function is to enforce the law relating to salmon and sea trout fishing in their34W areas. In the crofting counties responsibility for administering the Prevention of Pollution Acts rests with the County Councils and Inverness Town Council, except that the upper parts of several rivers which rise there are within the jurisdiction of two river purification boards whose main responsibilities lie elsewhere.