Consultation on the Recommendations from the Scottish Licensing Review Working Group

Footnotes

1. A scallop entitlement is a specific authority required to fish for scallops ( pecten maximus (king scallops)) using mechanical dredging gear.

2. Whitefish ( TR1) Gear

Vessels using gear type TR1, which includes bottom trawls, seines and similar towed gears, excluding beam trawls, of mesh size equal to or larger than 100mm are typically used to target whitefish.

3. Nephrops ( TR2) Gear

Gear type TR2 includes bottom trawls, seines and similar towed gears, excluding beam trawls, of mesh size equal to or larger than 70mm and less than 100mm. These gears typically target nephrops and fishing activity by these vessels is concentrated in the Moray Firth, the Firth of Forth, the Fladen ground and along the west coast of Scotland.