§ Mr. Ron DaviesTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will issue guidelines to those organisations using hounds for hunting purposes on the risk to animal health from taenia hydatigena spread by infected hounds; and if he will require such organisations to worm their hounds effectively and to cook casualty meat and offal prior to being fed to such hounds.
§ Mr. MacleanI have no plans to do so.
Declared catches of salmon and grilse by rods and commercial methods, 1966–90. Commercial catch Rod catch Year England1 Wales1" Scotland England (excl. N.E. drift and T/J nets) N'thumbria and Yorkshire (drift and T/J nets) N'thumbria (drift nets only2) Yorkshire (drift nets only) England1 Wales1 Scotland 1966 42,229 14,501 366,139 26,595 15,634 — 1,129 17,816 17,444 71,864 1967 54,844 13,259 526,894 28,485 26,359 — 2,331 13,056 16,552 77,796 1968 44,755 6,836 381,466 20,005 24,750 — 1,497 7,960 8,613 52,616 1969 73,956 8,118 510,189 24,132 49,824 — 2,854 8,066 8,112 52,069 1970 122,045 8,280 346,207 27,054 94,991 — 3,494 8,876 10,155 62,829 1971 83,423 9,295 374,236 23,070 60,353 — 4,838 8,192 11,561 49,525 1972 73,552 10,126 409,842 21,871 51,681 — 2,906 10,108 14,749 59,646 1973 84,760 9,145 464,704 21,918 62,842 — 3,698 9,600 11,311 66,306 1974 71,247 9,168 417,853 18,491 52,756 — 4,966 10,430 14,330 59,920 1975 77,968 11,507 362,090 24,517 53,451 — 7,297 10,162 14,254 68,252 1976 34,759 7,970 254,400 19,058 15,701 — 3,239 5,623 5,171 48,674 1977 71,259 6,600 268,684 18,371 52,888 — 12,827 8,629 10,371 64,567 1978 68,088 7,562 290,028 16,458 51,630 — 4,448 7,638 9,835 77,396 1979 56,726 4,827 238,580 13,262 43,464 — 4,305 7,578 6,503 81,165 1980 62,193 7,275 223,525 16,413 45,780 — 3,667 11,905 9,672 70,504 1981 90,877 9,037 262,166 21,764 69,113 — 10,077 11,425 10,742 63,293 1982 62,739 4,472 271,549 12,572 50,167 — 6,537 7,220 6,287 64,754 1983 97,334 4,834 289,508 20,057 77,277 — 12,245 7,430 7,381 66,070 1984 79,274 3,947 261,619 19,979 59,295 — 7,810 7,219 3,802 58,673 1985 72,465 3,465 196,570 15,109 57,356 — 9,291 10,725 8,876 76,090 1986 85,416 5,031 276,074 21,991 63,425 — 8,059 11,849 8,498 75,185 1987 59,193 4,535 197,653 23,050 36,143 — 2,562 11,509 8,202 71,126 1988 72,307 5,010 164,772 21,458 50,849 42,066 5,399 16,857 15,989 96,488 1989 63,882 5,058 190,820 22,429 41,453 31,328 4,908 9,274 5,454 88,007 19903 67,469 4,312 97,372 15,939 51,530 40,496 7,723 9,471 4,636 71,646 1 Data for 1966–1982 for England and Wales will be included in an authoritative compilation to be published shortly; however, pending publication these data should be regarded as provisional. 2 Drift net catch data for the Northumbria region were not reported separately before 1988. 3 Data not yet confirmed.