Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2024
An Accredited Official Statistics publication that provides detailed information on the tonnage and value of landings, fishing vessel characteristics and employment.
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All tables presented here and in previous publications are available for download from the Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics publications section of the Scottish Government website[1].
Spatial information on fish and shellfish caught by Scottish vessels is available on Marine Scotland interactive maps and Marine Scotland Data Publications. Links to map layers and data are available from the fishing activity data and statistics page. This also includes experimental gridded data from Scottish under-12 metres vessels based on daily latitude and longitude positions provided by fishers.
More information about the data and methodology used to produce the Scottish sea fisheries statistics publication is provided in a stand-alone technical manual. This also includes a glossary of terms. The technical manual can be found here: Scottish sea fisheries statistics: technical manual - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).
Detailed information on the quality of the five years of data included in this publication is included with the supplementary tables. This includes percentage changes between the provisional and final publications and from previous years final publications. Information on the tonnage of the manual amendments and the percentage of landings value that was imputed using average values is also provided
[1] Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics Publications: Sea fisheries statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)