HC Deb 22 May 1975 vol 892 cc628-9W
Mr. MacCormick

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what quantity of scallops and queens, respectively, had been landed in Scottish West Coast ports in each of the past 10 years.

Mr. William Ross

Before 1970 no distinction was made in the statistics between large scallops and queen scallops. The figures in cwts. are accordingly as follows:

All Scallops
1965 7,742
1966 12,091
1967 19,848
1968 52,302
1969 98,802
Scallops Queen Scallops
1970 64,065 96,504
1971 42,433 95,196
1972 24,507 87,366
1973 18,923 143,698
1974 33,164 63,617

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