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Publication - Statistics

Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2011

Published
13 September 2012
Part of
Marine and fisheries
ISBN
9781782560678

A detailed overview of landings of sea fish; the Scottish fishing fleet; and the number of sea fishermen employed.

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Table 2.5 Number of active Scottish based vessels by main fishing method ( 1) as at 31st December: 2002 to 2011

District 10m & under Over 10m Total
Pelagic Demersal Shellfish Over 10 m Total
Nephrop trawls Creel fishing Other 2 Total Purse seine Pelagic trawl Other Total Trawl 3 Seine Lines Other 4 Total Nephrop trawls Creel fishing Other Total
Aberdeen 2 77 1 80 - - - - 1 - - - 1 5 3 1 9 10 90
Buckie 9 34 4 47 - - - - 17 4 1 - 22 2 2 5 9 31 78
Eyemouth 12 70 2 84 - - - - 5 2 - - 7 13 3 - 16 23 107
Fraserburgh 1 77 22 100 2 9 - 11 52 6 - 1 59 31 1 2 34 104 204
Peterhead 1 39 4 44 2 2 - 4 34 4 - - 38 7 - 1 8 50 94
Pittenweem 11 92 1 104 - - - - 1 1 - - 2 13 1 - 14 16 120
Scrabster 5 105 5 115 - - - - 2 2 - - 4 2 9 3 14 18 133
Total - East Coast 41 494 39 574 4 11 - 15 112 19 1 1 133 73 19 12 104 252 826
Orkney 1 102 6 109 - - - - 7 - - - 7 6 28 2 36 43 152
Shetland 3 109 20 132 - 8 - 8 18 6 - - 24 3 1 7 11 43 175
Stornoway - 171 4 175 - 1 - 1 7 - - - 7 14 26 4 44 52 227
Total - Islands 4 382 30 416 - 9 - 9 32 6 - - 38 23 55 13 91 138 554
Ayr 14 51 13 78 - - - - 10 - 8 2 20 18 1 31 50 70 148
Campbeltown 6 80 6 92 - - - - 4 - - - 4 26 8 8 42 46 138
Kinlochbervie 2 16 - 18 - - - - 3 - - - 3 1 1 - 2 5 23
Lochinver - 12 - 12 - - - - 1 - - - 1 - 1 - 1 2 14
Mallaig 1 29 5 35 - - - - 8 2 - - 10 10 - 1 11 21 56
Oban 4 73 7 84 - - - - 5 - - - 5 7 15 11 33 38 122
Portree 6 108 3 117 - - - - 2 - - - 2 11 9 - 20 22 139
Ullapool 2 40 2 44 - - - - 2 1 6 4 13 8 9 1 18 31 75
Total - West Coast 35 409 36 480 - - - - 35 3 14 6 58 81 44 52 177 235 715
Total 80 1,285 105 1,470 4 20 - 24 179 28 15 7 229 177 118 77 372 625 2,095

(1) The main fishing method specified on a vessel's licence application may differ from the actual fishing gear used in individual voyages.

(2) The 10m & under 'other' fishing method category includes mechanical dredging; suction dredging, and shell fishing by hand.

(3) The over 10m 'Demersal Trawl' category includes; demersal single trawl, demersal pair trawl, demersal twin/multi trawl and beam trawl.

(4) The over 10m 'Demersal Other' category includes; demersal gill nets and other demersal.

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