Publication - Impact assessment

Fishing vessels - economic link: island communities impact assessment (ICIA)

Published: 21 September 2022
Directorate: Marine Directorate
Topic: Economy, Environment and climate change, Marine and fisheries
ISBN: 9781804359655

An island communities impact assessment (ICIA) of changes to Scottish economic link licence conditions contained in Scottish fishing vessels.

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Annex B

This data provides an overview of key relevant data held for the fishing sector for three of Scotland’s island communities: Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.

Table 4: Total landings of the eight key quota species eight key quota species (mackerel, herring, Nephrops, cod, haddock, hake, monkfish and whiting) by vessels based in Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles (Stornoway) to Scotland and outside of Scotland between 2015-2019. [12]
	Scotland		Outside of Scotland		Total landings
	tonnes	value [£]	tonnes	value [£]	tonnes	value [£]
Orkney	23,420	42,366,295	290	800,680	23,710	43,166,975
Shetland	180,805	219,477,330	297,950	246,453,780	478,755	465,931,110
Western Isles	8,150	31,259,670	45	127,795	8,195	31,387,465
Total	212,375	293,103,295	298,285	247,382,255	510,660	540,485,550

Source: Marine Analytical Unit data: March 2022

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