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Publication - Statistics

Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2012

Published
12 September 2013
Part of
Marine and fisheries
ISBN
9781782568124

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

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Table 1.1.s Quantity and value of landings by all vessels into Scotland, by main species 1,3: 2008 to 2012
Quantity (tonnes) Value (£'000) 2
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
UK and Foreign vessels
Landings into Scotland
Bass 1 1 1 0 0 5 6 4 1 2
Black scabbardfish 3,166 3,182 2,795 2,132 1,998 3,850 3,695 5,772 5,017 4,026
Blue Ling 2,739 3,266 3,410 (r) 1,826 1,545 2,743 2,181 4,266 (r) 2,338 1,936
Brill 2 1 2 2 3 6 5 7 7 11
Cod 8,152 9,953 13,013 (r) 11,219 11,297 17,128 17,862 25,452 (r) 24,621 22,194
Greenland halibut 506 1,150 1,047 (r) 401 194 790 2,150 2,698 (r) 1,280 490
Haddock 29,717 33,264 29,754 (r) 25,733 31,075 32,915 32,817 34,094 (r) 32,386 32,486
Hake 7,673 10,801 10,310 (r) 12,184 11,184 13,108 20,727 18,198 (r) 21,161 24,508
Lemon sole 936 614 530 564 527 2,327 1,301 1,199 1,614 1,383
Ling 3,979 4,736 4,831 (r) 4,860 4,757 4,837 5,549 6,655 (r) 7,198 6,932
Megrims 2,773 2,834 2,707 (r) 2,445 2,275 7,572 7,396 7,411 (r) 7,968 6,140
Monkfish 11,916 12,012 9,755 (r) 9,385 7,554 32,485 37,731 33,285 (r) 32,033 24,856
Plaice 837 676 689 775 945 662 488 500 628 782
Pollack 975 636 547 485 460 1,825 1,150 1,026 1,124 981
Red mullet 21 12 6 3 1 27 36 21 12 4
Redfish 573 896 1,156 (r) 350 383 550 896 1,448 (r) 525 562
Saithe 18,189 19,380 16,359 (r) 17,391 16,265 9,631 13,487 14,926 (r) 18,263 17,179
Sole 3 2 2 3 4 16 11 10 24 20
Turbot 49 42 47 49 48 359 312 370 431 370
Whiting 9,239 8,002 7,131 (r) 7,970 8,878 9,289 8,003 8,021 (r) 9,819 9,505
Witches 914 849 692 640 663 1,117 1,095 890 848 714
Other demersal 6,995 7,866 7,087 (r) 5,002 4,184 7,611 9,057 8,258 (r) 6,027 5,125
Total demersal 109,352 120,173 111,872 (r) 103,419 104,239 148,854 165,957 174,513 173,322 160,205
Blue whiting 59,294 17,261 31,139 3,415 24,394 7,164 3,092 7,282 1,750 7,475
Herring 51,630 35,327 31,682 32,501 56,078 13,309 10,931 9,355 16,849 29,722
Horse mackerel 662 6,495 3,204 3,332 1,605 155 2,426 1,499 2,104 901
Mackerel 106,872 116,165 133,839 (r) 112,262 83,822 83,194 97,520 110,361 (r) 134,217 74,830
Pilchards 164 - - - - 14 - - - -
Sardinelle aurita - - - - - - - - - -
Other pelagic 3,836 4,965 3,266 512 3,838 1,507 820 792 116 1,859
Total pelagic 222,457 180,213 203,132 (r) 152,022 169,737 105,343 114,790 129,288 (r) 155,036 114,787
Cuttlefish 0 - 0 0 - 0 - 0 0 -
Edible crabs 9,430 10,424 11,015 (r) 11,927 10,870 10,802 11,497 13,133 (r) 14,250 13,185
Lobsters 1,030 1,101 1,136 1,238 1,131 10,995 11,407 11,703 13,147 11,770
Nephrops 32,789 31,499 28,906 24,340 21,840 95,570 78,286 79,676 86,753 82,134
Patagonian squid - - - - - - - - - -
Pink shrimps - - - 0 0 - - - 0 0
Queen scallops 4,562 4,498 7,473 9,357 7,540 1,700 1,872 2,904 3,771 3,109
Scallops 10,168 9,899 9,335 7,794 10,392 25,247 19,182 17,608 16,081 20,555
Squid 1,541 2,093 3,188 (r) 2,151 1,422 4,438 4,340 8,615 (r) 8,536 4,365
Velvet crabs 2,711 2,762 2,518 2,193 2,032 5,832 6,135 6,403 5,801 4,864
Whelks 255 363 419 (r) 239 347 162 193 224 (r) 138 216
Other shellfish 2,044 1,583 2,106 (r) 1,352 1,456 2,634 3,068 3,624 (r) 3,461 3,966
Total shellfish 64,530 64,224 66,096 (r) 60,590 57,030 157,379 135,980 143,890 (r) 151,938 144,164
Total landings 396,340 364,610 381,100 (r) 316,031 331,006 411,576 416,726 447,690 (r) 480,296 419,155

(1) Main species are those where the total value landed into the UK or by UK vessels abroad was £2m or more in 2010.

(2) The methodology used to calculate value of landings was changed by the introduction of the Register of Buyers and Sellers ( RBS) in September 2005 - see discussion in Annex 1 - Methodology for further details.

(3) Subsequent to the publication of the 2010 bulletin it was discovered that the value of Cockles landings in 2010 had been incorrectly
overstated; when corrected the value failed to meet the £2m threshold and cockles are no longer separately distinguished in the tables. The figures have been included in Other shellfish.
Some 2010 figures have been revised due to double counting arising from duplicated records in the vessel file.

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