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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 |