Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2025
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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In 2025, 346 thousand tonnes of sea fish and shellfish with a value of £704 million were landed into Scotland. This represents a six per cent decrease in tonnage and a 17 per cent increase in real terms value (adjusted to 2025 prices) from 2024.
Pelagic species accounted for 54 per cent of the tonnage landed into Scotland in 2025, whilst demersal species made up 32 per cent and shellfish species 14 per cent. By value in 2025, 33 per cent of landings into Scotland were demersal species, 43 per cent were pelagic species and 24 per cent were shellfish. The differences in shares by tonnage and value reflect the differences in average prices per tonne (for landings by Scottish vessels) across the species types: shellfish sell at relatively higher average prices per tonne, whilst pelagic species receive the lowest average prices per tonne (Table 21).
Figures 2 and 3 show landings by all vessels into the eighteen Scottish port districts. The top two districts in Scotland by total tonnage landed and the value of landings were Peterhead (east coast) and Shetland (northern island). Peterhead is the single largest fishing port in Scotland by tonnage and value of landing. Information on landings into all the Scottish districts can be found in table 29.
Figure 2. Peterhead on the east coast of Scotland had the largest tonnage of landings, at 183 thousand tonnes in 2025.
Tonnage landed into Scotland by all vessels by district in 2025
Figure 3. Peterhead on the east coast of Scotland had the largest value of landings, at £326 million in 2025.
Value (thousands of pounds) landed into Scotland by all vessels by district in 2025.