Correspondence on the licensing arrangements for the waters around the Isle of Man, with correspondents including: John Macgregor, Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (4); R H James, Chief Executive Secretary, the Northern Ireland Fish Producers' Organisation, Limited (13); P D Chaplin, Technical Director, Sea Fish Industry Authority (3); 8th Lord Mansfield and Mansfield, Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office [earlier Lord Stormont] (3); Terence Skemp, Counsel to the Speaker; 2nd Lord Elton, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, and earlier Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office (2); Stuart Randall; Charles Douglas-Home, Editor of the Times; A D Roy, North Sea Irish Fish Producers Organisation Limited (10); Elizabeth McBride, Northern Ireland Fish Processors and Exporters Association (3); William Ross; Adam Butler, Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (5); Victor Chambers (5); Lord Belstead, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office [earlier John Ganzoni].

Also includes: copies of statutory instruments on sea fisheries; extracts from Hansard; extracts from legal texts; notes on the Isle of Man; report of the Isle of Man Commission of Inquiry into the Fishing Industry.