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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 1.7h Quantity and value of all landings into Scotland by district and main species 1: 2008 to 2012

Quantity (tonnes) Value (£'000)
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Scrabster
Black scabbardfish 680 1,021 902 473 415 1,160 2,221 2,122 1,095 624
Blue ling 473 693 1,237 (r) 484 211 597 484 1,362 (r) 614 214
Bream rays 13 328 113 13 - 14 476 182 35 -
Cod 1,001 1,206 1,192 (r) 991 867 2,171 2,180 2,300 (r) 2,148 1,687
Forkbeard 16 42 42 10 14 13 48 35 11 13
Greenland halibut 333 894 648 (r) 133 40 625 1,768 1,857 (r) 453 78
Haddock 1,626 2,751 2,003 (r) 1,884 2,540 1,908 3,226 2,475 (r) 2,708 2,742
Hake 909 2,265 1,221 (r) 1,404 883 1,995 5,121 2,822 (r) 3,578 3,220
Halibut 18 27 20 10 4 110 148 109 54 24
Ling 495 901 625 (r) 593 493 585 1,062 827 (r) 910 727
Megrims 661 622 553 (r) 511 394 1,957 1,725 1,572 (r) 1,693 1,113
Monkfish 1,830 1,891 1,931 (r) 1,930 1,737 5,134 5,599 6,956 (r) 6,731 5,841
Plaice 42 54 67 61 55 35 38 48 48 46
Pollack 22 23 32 34 57 39 41 62 74 127
Portuguese dogfish 101 193 238 122 96 95 128 280 159 141
Red gurnards 45 77 96 82 35 12 20 37 23 8
Redfishes 233 576 414 (r) 45 61 253 579 524 (r) 81 90
Roundnose grenadier 504 345 238 72 16 386 155 283 112 21
Saithe 3,712 4,577 2,304 (r) 1,961 1,194 1,959 3,135 2,042 (r) 2,063 1,211
Skates and rays 111 95 68 35 37 84 79 57 31 29
Tusk 69 320 101 (r) 117 45 55 245 67 (r) 88 33
Whiting 400 559 416 428 392 449 615 464 527 441
Witches 45 42 35 35 36 50 52 44 44 38
Other demersal 238 286 198 (r) 216 186 481 494 437 (r) 375 263
Total demersal 13,576 19,786 14,693 (r) 11,644 9,807 20,165 29,639 26,962 (r) 23,653 18,730
Argentines - 0 39 2 - - 0 18 1 -
Other pelagic 1 7 3 4 8 1 1 1 2 4
Total pelagic 1 8 41 6 8 1 1 19 3 4
Edible crabs 2,518 3,214 2,823 2,899 2,453 3,153 3,737 3,573 3,728 3,225
Lobsters 79 115 130 146 116 908 1,193 1,382 1,565 1,254
Mussels 923 341 475 - - 257 87 115 - -
Nephrops 221 153 91 110 52 733 417 304 516 242
Scallops 464 538 477 528 659 1,224 1,170 840 1,506 1,359
Squid 133 113 373 283 53 395 255 998 1,004 197
Velvet crabs 135 121 118 112 108 264 250 264 261 226
Whelks 111 99 140 24 26 68 54 82 14 17
Other shellfish 6 25 7 9 8 6 20 15 30 25
Total shellfish 4,591 4,719 4,635 4,111 3,476 7,008 7,184 7,574 8,625 6,546
Total landings 18,168 24,512 19,370 (r) 15,761 13,291 27,173 36,824 34,556 (r) 32,281 25,279

(1) Main species are those where the quantity landed into Scottish districts was 20 tonnes or over in 2010.

Some 2010 figures have been revised downwards due to double counting arising from duplicated records in the vessel file.

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