Publication - Statistics

Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2015

Published: 29 September 2016
ISBN: 9781786524300

Details of landings of sea fish, the Scottish fishing fleet and the number of sea fishermen employed.

Sea fisheries statistics

Table 1.1.n Quantity and value of landings by all UK vessels abroad, by main species ¹: 2011 to 2015

	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
	Quantity (tonnes)					Value (£'000)
UK vessels
Landings Abroad
Bass	31	83	31	37	40	198	580	162	261	338
Black scabbardfish	0	7	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	0
Brill	121	110	107	107	119	683	554	609	692	526
Cod	10,495	13,762	16,446	16,251	12,775	18,865	18,843	19,971	22,057	19,370
Haddock	1,574	1,176	1,086	869	866	1,887	1,393	1,078	1,126	931
Hake	1,300	1,817	2,487	2,779	3,843	2,228	4,196	6,679	6,271	8,414
Lemon sole	440	374	467	503	442	1,512	1,141	1,321	1,540	1,503
Ling	545	614	572	434	471	831	962	811	533	637
Megrims	1,394	1,318	1,297	1,644	1,702	3,850	4,027	3,756	5,814	5,471
Monkfish	3,297	3,208	3,480	4,477	3,908	11,168	12,169	10,771	14,442	11,904
Plaice	14,204	15,334	17,088	15,591	15,332	18,829	20,880	18,068	17,067	18,988
Pollack	392	462	635	560	520	1,111	1,174	1,447	621	586
Saithe	3,106	2,122	1,802	1,608	3,100	2,991	2,200	1,937	1,974	3,196
Skates and rays	376	283	340	350	394	562	401	660	593	732
Sole	360	282	516	553	558	3,848	2,583	3,805	4,426	4,722
Turbot	328	309	302	325	250	2,863	2,328	2,258	2,619	1,864
Whiting	324	348	653	693	699	296	452	586	642	590
Other demersal	13,145	7,856	9,460	2,912	5,418	6,800	5,071	4,285	3,599	4,811
Total demersal	51,433	49,465	56,770	49,692	50,437	78,522	78,965	78,205	84,277	84,584
Blue whiting	38	2,753	5,333	18,146	19,628	18	1,501	1,206	3,882	4,599
Herring	30,311	52,225	56,309	59,336	55,181	14,080	20,833	19,692	18,249	19,558
Horse mackerel	7,872	7,863	8,900	9,663	4,696	3,481	3,520	3,931	4,398	2,283
Mackerel	87,793	101,042	85,582	161,806	153,156	98,362	94,519	76,243	123,091	99,228
Other pelagic	11,712	5,950	1,156	1,331	775	5,645	4,487	1,974	1,909	1,320
Total pelagic	137,726	169,832	157,280	250,282	233,435	121,587	124,860	103,046	151,529	126,988
Cockles	27	29	12	0	0	39	28	11	0	0
Cuttlefish	36	97	44	30	40	104	255	105	75	103
Edible crabs	1,936	2,464	2,844	3,281	3,152	2,463	3,276	4,324	5,387	4,765
Lobsters	23	23	28	31	37	304	263	258	279	318
Nephrops	241	162	199	178	215	1,449	967	1,108	966	1,068
Queen scallops	2,158	4,387	1,099	137	130	881	1,778	583	71	85
Scallops	55	48	223	520	138	106	72	384	875	244
Squid	210	302	227	503	548	1,119	1,580	953	1,931	2,108
Velvet crabs	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	0
Whelks	80	85	130	310	67	37	45	93	197	52
Other shellfish	1,860	7,137	2,453	3,789	4,203	4,540	7,637	2,916	3,694	2,676
Total shellfish	6,627	14,735	7,260	8,780	8,530	11,042	15,902	10,735	13,476	11,418

Total landings	195,786	234,032	221,311	308,753	292,402	211,150	219,726	191,985	249,282	222,990

(1) Main species are those where the total value landed into the UK or by UK vessels abroad was £2m or more in 2015.

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