Fish Landing data from 2018 onwards: EIR release

Information requested

• From 1st February 2018 till 31st January 2019, In Total how many Kg was landed within all vessels in the Trial and what was the Value of the Total Landings made from all vessels during this year?
• From 1st February 2019 till 31st January 2020, In Total how many Kg was landed within all vessels in the Trial and what was the Value of the Total Landings made from all vessels during this year?
• From 1st February 2020 till 31st January 2021, In Total how many Kg was landed within all vessels in the Trial and what was the Value of the Total Landings made from all vessels during this year?
• From 1st February 2021 till 31st January 2022, In Total how many Kg was landed within all vessels in the Trial and what was the Value of the Total Landings made from all vessels during this year?

Response

As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.

This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.

In the table below we set out the tonnage of razor clams landed by all vessels permitted to participate in the in the razor clam trial and the total value of these landings for the time periods you specify.

Trial Year	Tonnage	Value (£)
1 February 2018 and 31 January 2019	683	£5,845, 134.57
1 February 2019 and 31 January 2020	851	£6,855,462.89
1 February 2020 and 31 January 2021	534	£4,069,706.10
1 February 2021 and 31 January 2022	793	£6,138,128.98

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