HC Deb 17 October 1973 vol 861 c202W
Mr. Dalyell

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what assessment he has made of the commercial scale experiment, wholly financed by his Ministry, in deep sea trawling on the edge of the Continental Shelf, to the west of Scotland or Northern Ireland.

Mr. Anthony Stodart

The chartered freezer trawler "Swanella" completed its six-week voyage at the beginning of this month. Quantities of fish unfamiliar to the British market were caught and the Ministry's laboratories are now urgently assessing the results.