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Salmon (Greenland)

Volume 809: debated on Wednesday 20 January 1971

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asked 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.

asked 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.

The 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:

River of OriginNumber recaptured at Greenland
A. ScotlandConon3
Dee (Aberdeen)7
Tay6
B. EnglandAxe18
Exe15
Ure6
Total to date55
These recaptures cannot be divided between coastal waters and high seas.No reports have been received of the recapture at Greenland in 1970 of kelts tagged in the United Kingdom.