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Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2013
Statistics on the Scottish fishing fleet and its catches in 2013
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Table 2.5 Number of active Scottish based vessels by main fishing method (1) as at 31st December 2013
| 10m & under | Over 10m | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pelagic | Demersal | Shellfish | Over | ||||||||||||||||
| Nephrop | Creel | Other 2 | Total | Purse | Pelagic | Other | Total | Trawl 3 | Seine | Lines | Other 4 | Total | Nephrop | Creel | Other | Total | 10 m | Total | |
| District | trawls | fishing | seine | trawl | trawls | fishing | Total | ||||||||||||
| Aberdeen | 2 | 75 | 1 | 78 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 86 |
| Anstruther | 8 | 83 | - | 91 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 1 | - | 12 | 12 | 103 |
| Buckie | 9 | 37 | 4 | 50 | - | - | - | - | 12 | 3 | 1 | - | 16 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 26 | 76 |
| Eyemouth | 10 | 75 | 4 | 89 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | 6 | 11 | 3 | - | 14 | 20 | 109 |
| Fraserburgh | 1 | 75 | 20 | 96 | 1 | 9 | - | 10 | 48 | 5 | - | 1 | 54 | 33 | 1 | 2 | 36 | 100 | 196 |
| Peterhead | 1 | 48 | 2 | 51 | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | 32 | 4 | - | - | 36 | 5 | - | 1 | 6 | 46 | 97 |
| Scrabster | 1 | 81 | - | 82 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 3 | - | 6 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 92 |
| Total - East Coast | 32 | 474 | 31 | 537 | 3 | 11 | - | 14 | 98 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 115 | 67 | 16 | 10 | 93 | 222 | 759 |
| Orkney | 2 | 85 | 8 | 95 | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | 6 | 5 | 28 | 4 | 37 | 43 | 138 |
| Shetland | 3 | 112 | 17 | 132 | - | 8 | - | 8 | 18 | 5 | - | - | 23 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 41 | 173 |
| Stornoway | - | 168 | 4 | 172 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 7 | - | - | - | 7 | 14 | 19 | 5 | 38 | 46 | 218 |
| Total - Islands | 5 | 365 | 29 | 399 | - | 9 | - | 9 | 31 | 5 | - | - | 36 | 20 | 49 | 16 | 85 | 130 | 529 |
| Ayr | 11 | 56 | 11 | 78 | - | - | - | - | 9 | - | 12 | 4 | 25 | 17 | 3 | 34 | 54 | 79 | 157 |
| Campbeltown | 6 | 77 | 12 | 95 | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | 5 | 29 | 6 | 8 | 43 | 48 | 143 |
| Kinlochbervie | 2 | 12 | - | 14 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 5 | 19 |
| Lochinver | - | 11 | - | 11 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 13 |
| Mallaig | 2 | 25 | 3 | 30 | - | - | - | - | 9 | 2 | - | - | 11 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 20 | 50 |
| Oban | 3 | 71 | 6 | 80 | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | 4 | 9 | 14 | 13 | 36 | 40 | 120 |
| Portree | 5 | 100 | 2 | 107 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 3 | 8 | 9 | - | 17 | 20 | 127 |
| Ullapool | 4 | 63 | 8 | 75 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 26 | 28 | 103 |
| Total - West Coast | 33 | 415 | 42 | 490 | - | - | - | - | 34 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 53 | 84 | 45 | 60 | 189 | 242 | 732 |
| Total | 70 | 1,254 | 102 | 1,426 | 3 | 20 | - | 23 | 163 | 23 | 13 | 5 | 204 | 171 | 110 | 86 | 367 | 594 | 2,020 |
(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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