Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2006

Footnotes

1. Pelagic Gears; Beam trawl; Demersal seines and nephrops; Lines & Nets; Shellfish-Mobile; Shellfish-Fixed; Distant Water; and vessels under 10 metres

2. Occurs when the sum of the engine power capacities attached to the licences used in an aggregation, exceeds the maximum engine power of the vessel on which the aggregate licence is used. The excess engine power entitlement is then effectively lost from the fleet total.

3. When the Register of Buyers and Sellers ( RBS) was introduced in September 2005, Sales Notes were not initially required for sales of Shellfish and information on the value of such landings is consequently missing. The value has therefore been estimated for a number of landings, mostly of shellfish, relating to voyages starting on or after 1st September 2005

4. Key demersal stocks are considered to be North Sea & West of Scotland stocks of Cod, Haddock, Monkfish, Whiting, Saithe, Plaice and Norway Lobster.

5. Key pelagic stocks are considered to be North Sea & West of Scotland stocks of Mackerel, Herring and Horse Mackerel

6. When the Register of Buyers and Sellers ( RBS) was introduced in September 2005, Sales Notes were not initially required for sales of Shellfish and information on the value of such landings is consequently missing. The value has therefore been estimated for a number of landings, mostly of shellfish, relating to voyages starting on or after 1st September 2005

7. When the Register of Buyers and Sellers ( RBS) was introduced in September 2005, Sales Notes were not initially required for sales of Shellfish and information on the value of such landings is consequently missing. The value has therefore been estimated for a number of landings, mostly of shellfish, relating to voyages starting on or after 1st September 2005