Regional Inshore Fisheries Group: evaluation

Annex B: Glossary

Creel – A "lobster pot" or type of trap used to fish for shellfish

such as crab, lobster, and Nephrops

CLP – Creel Limitation Pilot

Demersal fishing – Pulling your net on or near the seafloor

Dredge – Dragging something over the seabed and stirring up the bottom to collect shellfish (typically scallops)

EFF – European Fisheries Fund

eNGOs – Environmental non-profit organization that operates independently of any government

FFM – Future Fisheries Management Strategy 2020-2030

FA – Fisheries Associations: Trade bodies representing fishers

Fishery – A fishery is an activity leading to harvesting of fish defined by the species caught, gear, sea area and species or group of species under a given management regime

Fishery Officer – Marine Scotland colleagues who check the landings and collect the data from fishing boats

Fishery Offices – Where fishery officers work (see fishery officer)

Fleet – Collection of boats arranged either by location (e.g. Scottish vs English fleet), size (e.g. the inshore fleet, the over 10 m fleet), or gear used (e.g. the creel fleet)

FMAC – Fisheries Management and Conservation Group

FMPs – Fisheries Management Plans developed by IFGs/RIFGs. Note that these are different from FMPs under development under the Fisheries Act 2020.

Gear – The type of equipment people use to fish (e.g. net or creel)

GES – Good Environmental Status

GVA – Gross Value Added

Inshore – Within 6 nm (nautical miles) of the coast

IFCA – Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority

IFGs – Inshore Fisheries Groups

IFMAC – Inshore Fisheries Management and Conservation Group

Inshore fleet – Smaller boats (generally defined as under 10 m). They traditionally fish for shorter periods of time than the bigger boats.

Landing – When fishers come back to the harbour after fishing and take their catch ashore to sell/transport

Landings – The amount of fish caught (can be measured by weight or value)

Licences – Boats need a licence to fish certain species such as shellfish, cod etc.

MAU – Marine Analytical Unit: a group of analysts (economists, social researchers, statisticians, data scientists) based in the Marine Directorate

MD – Marine Directorate of the Scottish Government

Mobile gear – Gear that moves/ is pulled along (e.g. net)

MPA – Marine Protected Area: There are three types of MPA in Scotland: 1) Demonstration and research to test novel approaches to marine management; 2) Historic to protect marine wrecks and artefacts; 3) Nature conservation to protect biodiversity. The term can also be used generically to describe any marine protected area.

MPP Marine Planning Partnerships: groups made up of marine stakeholders who reflect marine interests in their region with some delegated marine planning powers and who develop, and oversee the implementation of, regional marine plans.

NECRIFG – North and East Coast RIFG

Nephrops – The Latin name for the group of species known as Norway lobster, prawn or langoustine. A type of shellfish that can be caught by net or creel

NMP – National Marine Plan

OHRIFG – Outer Hebrides RIFG

OSF – Orkney Sustainable Fisheries Ltd

PO – Producer Organisation that help boats buy/lease/sell their quota among other things

Quota – The weight of fish that fishing boats are allowed to catch. Only some fish are "quota species", and not all boats have quota. An individual fishing quota (IQ or IFQ) is an allocation to a nation, individual (a person or a legal entity (e.g., a company)) of a right [privilege] to harvest a certain amount of fish in a certain period of time. It is also often expressed as an individual share of an aggregate quota, or Quota changes from year to year, depending on stock assessments

Razorfish – Or ‘razor clams’ are marine bivalve molluscs commonly found around the coast of Europe, inhabiting sediments from fine sand to soft mud in the intertidal and sub-tidal areas

RIFGs – Regional Inshore Fisheries Groups

SEA – Strategic Environmental Assessment

Seafish – A public body that produces economic and employment data for fisheries

SG – Scottish Government

SIFAG – Scottish Inshore Fisheries Advisory Group

SSI – Scottish Statutory Instrument

SSMO – Shetland Shellfish Management Organisation

Static gear – Gear that does not move on the seabed. It gets put down and stays in one place. Examples include creels, pots, and traps.

Stock – The amount of a particular species. It is calculated annually by scientists and is used to work out how much quota everyone gets so we can fish more sustainably.

TAC – Total allowable catch: a catch limit set for a particular fishery, generally for a year or a fishing season. TACs are usually expressed in tonnes of live‐weight equivalent, but are sometimes set in terms of numbers of fish

Trawl – A method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats (a type of mobile fishing).

V-notching – Fishers voluntarily marking egg-bearing females with a ‘notch’ in the tail fin

WCRIFG – West Coast RIFG

How to access background or source data

The data collected for this social research publication:

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☒ may be made available on request, subject to consideration of legal and ethical factors. Please contact MarineAnalyticalUnit@gov.scot for further information.

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