Scotland's Marine Economic Statistics 2020

Introduction

This report presents statistics on Scotland's marine economy. It is the fifth year of this experimental statistics report. The content and methodology are still under development.

Scotland's marine economy includes all activities that:

1. Relate to the oceans, seas, bays, estuaries and other major water bodies.

2. Take place in Scotland or within Scottish waters.

3. Directly contribute to Scotland's economy.

4. Are not part of related supply chains.

This publication includes activities with reliable economic data. This includes:

• Commercial fishing
• Aquaculture
• Support for oil and gas
• Seafood processing
• Shipbuilding
• Construction and water transport services
• Passenger water transport
• Freight water transport
• Renting and leasing
• Marine tourism
• Offshore wind

Scotland's marine economy is measured using:

1. Gross value added (GVA): the contribution to the economy of each individual producer, industry or sector. It is the difference between the value of the outputs and the costs of inputs used up in production.

2. Turnover: defined as total sales and work done. Calculated by adding together the values of:

a. sales of goods produced

b. goods purchased and resold without further processing

c. work done and industrial services rendered

d. non-industrial services rendered.

3. Employment: the number of employees on the payroll and working owners employed on a set day. Employment is a head count and not a Full Time Equivalent (FTE).

Most of the economic information comes from Scottish Annual Business Statistics. Aquaculture, commercial fishing and offshore wind use other data sources. To enable comparison of monetary values over time, all values are in 2020 prices. This involved applying ONS deflation tables to previous years data. The sources and methods used in this report are set out in the Annex.