Scottish salmon and sea trout fishery statistics 2022

Sea Trout Net Fishery

The haaf net fishery in the Solway Firth reported 248 sea trout caught and retained and 70 caught and released from a reported effort of 79 net months. Effort data from haaf net fisheries is omitted from the national fixed engine effort as it cannot easily be combined with that from other gear types. No finnock were reported caught from the haaf net fishery.

Excluding the Solway Firth fishery, no sea trout or finnock were reported caught in the fixed engine fishery, and there was no reported effort.

From a total reported effort of 19 crew months, 903 sea trout were reported caught and retained in the net and coble fishery, and 53 were caught and released. No finnock were reported caught in the net and coble fishery.

Reported catch and effort in both net fisheries have declined over much of the period covered by our records and remain at low levels (Chart 6a and 6b, and 7a and 7b).

Data source: 2022 Scottish salmon and sea trout statistics, Supplementary Tables, Table 9, from Marine Scotland.

Data source: 2022 Scottish salmon and sea trout statistics, Supplementary Tables, Table 9, from Marine Scotland.

Data source: 2022 Scottish salmon and sea trout statistics, Supplementary Tables, Table 10, from Marine Scotland.

Data source: 2022 Scottish salmon and sea trout statistics, Supplementary Tables, Table 10, from Marine Scotland.