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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 1.7k Quantity and value of all landings into Scotland : all Scottish ports by main species 1: 2008 to 2012

Quantity (tonnes) Value (£'000)
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
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
Bluemouth 117 156 161 130 121 106 196 278 287 168
Boarfish - - 22 12 - - - 1 1 -
Bream - ray's 104 1,160 880 47 0 107 2,055 1,436 115 1
Catfish 225 366 269 226 260 360 562 436 418 469
Cod 8,152 9,953 13,013 (r) 11,219 11,297 17,128 17,862 25,452 (r) 24,621 22,194
Common mora - 0 25 21 20 - 0 63 3 12
Conger eels 54 83 78 78 64 30 48 61 66 58
Cuckoo ray - 37 143 215 188 - 22 110 185 142
Dogfish - other 19 25 38 20 22 7 27 17 18 7
Forkbeard 665 532 504 485 586 619 657 527 641 792
Greenland halibut 506 1,150 1,047 (r) 401 194 790 2,150 2,698 (r) 1,280 490
Gurnard and latchet 3 12 36 143 147 9 12 54 110 113
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
Halibut 321 265 187 113 69 1,622 1,563 1,310 973 655
John dory 53 41 33 34 37 266 185 152 167 151
Leafscale gulper shark 22 69 143 4 - 2 6 17 1 -
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
Norway pout - - 585 60 76 - - 56 5 5
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
Portuguese dogfish 750 578 327 122 332 511 327 377 159 368
Rabbit fish 319 281 311 278 268 345 137 84 76 57
Red gurnards 65 152 232 191 142 20 43 121 84 55
Redfish 573 896 1,156 (r) 350 383 550 896 1,448 (r) 525 562
Roes 72 49 83 (r) 123 62 168 174 350 (r) 379 202
Roundnose grenadier 2,213 1,870 1,671 843 743 1,758 1,162 1,531 1,059 946
Saithe 18,189 19,380 16,359 (r) 17,391 16,265 9,631 13,487 14,926 (r) 18,263 17,179
Skates and rays 796 471 254 (r) 163 149 683 455 232 (r) 149 118
Spotted ray - 16 59 96 89 - 16 71 114 89
Spurdog 179 332 54 0 1 226 423 75 0 2
Thornback ray - 78 87 90 110 - 97 124 152 120
Turbot 49 42 47 49 48 359 312 370 431 370
Tusk 495 791 461 (r) 429 305 350 542 344 (r) 379 274
White skate - 14 41 25 12 - 13 36 23 9
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 548 504 412 (r) 1,062 389 474 393 438 (r) 506 350
Total demersal 109,352 120,173 111,872 (r) 103,419 104,239 148,854 165,957 174,513 (r) 173,322 160,205
Argentines 2,257 3,931 390 3 5 1,150 705 156 1 1
Blue whiting 59,294 17,261 31,139 3,415 24,394 7,164 3,092 7,282 1,750 7,475
Capelin 1,332 - 2,331 - 2,074 314 - 527 - 1,453
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
Sprats 192 1,033 537 507 1,759 39 115 107 113 405
Other pelagic 220 0 9 1 0 18 0 2 1 0
Total pelagic 222,457 180,213 203,132 (r) 152,022 169,737 105,343 114,790 129,288 (r) 155,036 114,787
Cockles 6 9 342 0 5 6 20 322 (r) 0 10
Edible crabs 9,430 10,424 11,015 (r) 11,927 10,870 10,802 11,497 13,133 (r) 14,250 13,185
Green crab 207 226 217 239 301 114 128 132 157 194
Lobsters 1,030 1,101 1,136 1,238 1,131 10,995 11,407 11,703 13,147 11,770
Mussels 923 346 476 0 0 257 89 115 0 0
Nephrops 32,789 31,499 28,906 24,340 21,840 95,570 78,286 79,676 86,753 82,134
Periwinkles 58 71 72 54 39 73 83 153 110 89
Queen scallops 4,562 4,498 7,473 9,357 7,540 1,700 1,872 2,904 3,771 3,109
Razor fish 526 718 666 719 900 1,496 1,785 1,799 1,965 2,559
Red crabs 39 71 194 (r) 224 99 30 148 700 (r) 882 464
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
Surf clams 101 94 108 40 6 142 105 149 59 11
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 184 49 32 76 105 517 712 253 288 638
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 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
Subsequent to the publication of the 2010 bulletin it was discovered that the value of Cockles landings in 2010 had been incorrectly overstated.

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