HC Deb 16 July 1973 vol 860 c23W
Mr. McNamara

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he estimates that the British trawler fleet will have caught the tonnage quota laid down by the International Court in The Hague as the amount the British fleet is entitled to take from Icelandic-claimed waters.

Mr. Anthony Stodart

Estimates of catches at this time of year, which is usually a peak period for fishing at Iceland, are subject to a very wide margin of error, and I therefore cannot at this stage provide a date that could be relied on.

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