Fish Landings by EU boats in Scottish Ports: EIR release

Information requested

You asked for “the port fish landings for 2024 for French and Spanish vessels in Lerwick Scrabster Lochinver and Ullapool.”

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.

I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested.

Nationality	Landing Port	Live weight in tonnes	Value in pounds
Spanish	Lochinver	1,583	2,998,356
Spanish	Ullapool	35	25,384
Spanish	Scrabster	343	244,541
French	Lochinver	4,353	8,493,607
French	Lerwick	19	69,229
French	Ullapool	114	177,988
French	Scrabster	1,315	1,598,369

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