Publication - Progress report
Scottish Sea Fisheries Employment Report
This report details the findings of a new survey of crews on Scottish fishing vessels. It provides new information across a range of indicators such as age, nationality, job tenure and skills.
Summary of Qualitative Responses
- Three key issues around recruitment are raised: 1) low wages; 2) competition with other marine industries and; 3) an unwillingness for local crews to work in a physical industry with unsocial working hours.
- Mixed views in all sectors on the recruitment some citing no issues and others citing problems.
- To improve recruitment and retention ideas included: advertising; better training for new crew; bettering marketing and creating demand; improvements in management; rewards and subsides and better avenues for improving the hiring for foreign workers.
- Key benefits of working in a particular sector were: Pots and Traps - hours, allowing crew to get home in the evenings to spend time with friends/family; For Demersal (>24m, seiners and pair trawl) length of breaks after trips were attractive and the size of the boat allows for better living and work conditions; For Nephrops trawls most crew felt the working hours were good for spending weekends at home with friends/family and; for Scallop dredger weekends at home and the sector's profitability due to no quota restrictions.
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