§ Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will give the known particulars of the numbers and the weight of salmon caught by inshore fishing and by drift-net fishing, respectively, off the coast of Greenland during the year 1970.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellThis information is not yet available.
§ Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the numbers of salmon smolts and salmon kelts, tagged in the United Kingdom, which are known to have been recaptured within Greenland territorial waters and by drift-netting on the high seas, respectively, in 1970; and whether he will give particulars of the rivers in which any of these fish were tagged.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellThe numbers of tagged smolts so far known to have been recaptured at Greenland in 1970, and the rivers in which they were tagged, are shown below:
292W These recaptures cannot be divided between coastal waters and high seas.
River of Origin Number recaptured at Greenland A. Scotland Conon 3 Dee (Aberdeen) 7 Tay 6 B. England Axe 18 Exe 15 Ure 6 Total to date 55 No reports have been received of the recapture at Greenland in 1970 of kelts tagged in the United Kingdom.