Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2015

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

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Table 1.1.r Quantity and value of landings by foreign vessels into the whole of the UK, by main species 1: 2011 to 2015

Quantity (tonnes) Value (£'000)
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Foreign vessels
Landings into the UK
Bass 21 16 22 12 13 158 123 124 4 66
Black scabbardfish 2,096 1,963 2,296 2,862 2,452 4,927 3,957 4,404 4,801 3,311
Brill 93 81 67 50 58 590 426 265 35 290
Cod 2,752 1,651 488 736 1,372 3,324 2,023 836 1,247 2,411
Haddock 1,003 439 542 1,801 1,054 968 449 583 2,300 1,358
Hake 6,170 5,519 4,538 7,096 7,088 10,219 12,652 11,089 17,691 17,474
Lemon sole 257 295 327 344 242 1,033 744 623 94 900
Ling 1,118 1,088 1,288 1,644 1,667 1,632 1,762 1,730 2,143 2,431
Megrims 527 680 659 324 418 1,447 1,281 902 564 1,029
Monkfish 2,046 1,931 1,890 1,312 1,544 6,195 6,351 4,495 3,043 4,058
Plaice 1,040 789 730 759 901 1,473 927 737 455 903
Pollack 24 31 25 100 39 57 67 47 84 81
Saithe 4,909 5,457 6,798 6,366 8,926 5,121 6,033 6,111 6,855 8,479
Skates and rays 1,109 1,162 920 687 807 1,794 1,587 1,156 186 1,152
Sole 925 957 792 778 691 9,391 8,844 5,273 532 5,298
Turbot 108 127 98 73 74 971 861 551 132 532
Whiting 269 212 315 546 583 234 206 220 385 592
Other demersal 6,325 4,947 5,167 5,164 3,749 7,875 6,085 6,628 7,047 4,841
Total demersal 30,792 27,346 26,962 30,655 31,677 57,411 54,379 45,776 47,598 55,205
Blue whiting 2,091 18,093 1,245 12 0 1,154 5,743 297 1 0
Herring 8,315 24,899 8,455 10,439 3,479 4,552 14,641 3,314 2,979 1,181
Horse mackerel 2,118 751 409 620 352 1,383 584 275 488 209
Mackerel 23,988 21,402 21,352 29,437 9,101 33,366 16,796 19,276 21,652 5,923
Other pelagic 2 2,074 352 0 4 0 1,453 110 0 1
Total pelagic 36,513 67,218 31,814 40,508 12,936 40,455 39,217 23,272 25,120 7,314
Cockles - - - - - - - - - -
Cuttlefish 52 114 69 26 167 144 245 66 10 260
Edible crabs 99 88 67 68 61 148 55 29 14 32
Lobsters 2 2 1 0 0 19 17 10 2 3
Nephrops 191 405 198 145 163 452 914 388 283 345
Queen scallops 53 1 - - 7 19 0 - - 5
Scallops 394 679 659 1,149 742 631 1,086 1,070 1,803 1,402
Squid 81 58 85 47 82 349 283 258 94 129
Velvet crabs - 0 - - - - 0 - - -
Whelks 13 32 14 7 9 5 13 5 1 5
Other shellfish 259 158 98 87 202 875 485 94 381 511
Total shellfish 1,144 1,537 1,191 1,531 1,434 2,641 3,098 1,920 2,589 2,692
Total landings 68,449 96,102 59,967 72,694 46,047 100,508 96,694 70,968 75,306 65,211

(1) Main species are those where the total value landed into the UK or by UK vessels abroad was £2m or more in 2015.
(2) The reduction in value for some demersal species in 2014 is due to a lack of sales notes from foreign vessel landings in to the UK and does not reflect a genuine decrease in the value.

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