Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2011

A detailed overview of landings of sea fish; the Scottish fishing fleet; and the number of sea fishermen employed.


Table 1.1.n Quantity and value of landings by all UK vessels abroad, by main species 1,3: 2007 to 2011

  Quantity (tonnes) Value (£'000) 2
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
UK vessels
Landings Abroad
Bass 38 49 41 50 31 214 236 247 318 198
Black scabbardfish 1 0 - 0 0 1 0 - 0 0
Blue ling 27 6 5 2 1 14 8 3 2 0
Brill 138 77 90 122 121 651 411 458 658 683
Cod 6,578 9,538 10,893 11,105 10,495 8,216 13,192 11,106 16,718 18,865
Greenland halibut 207 327 461 233 345 272 434 795 378 559
Haddock 1,195 1,148 1,553 1,900 1,574 923 1,387 1,326 1,900 1,887
Hake 1,824 1,942 1,545 1,300 1,378 2,810 2,874 3,575 2,407 2,321
Lemon sole 497 331 258 309 440 1,481 959 652 993 1,512
Ling 297 262 309 355 544 326 282 445 695 830
Megrims 546 836 1,018 1,298 1,392 944 1,404 1,947 3,149 3,847
Monks 2,077 2,334 2,157 2,651 3,285 5,055 5,874 7,047 8,972 11,158
Plaice 10,443 10,108 11,830 13,483 14,204 12,541 16,412 14,062 15,871 18,829
Pollack 143 169 232 277 392 329 370 527 856 1,111
Red mullet 143 290 240 325 170 381 1,274 1,438 1,663 521
Redfish 487 129 120 65 144 624 77 182 86 720
Saithe 1,806 2,857 2,836 2,526 3,106 1,407 2,185 2,426 2,433 2,991
Sole 869 435 507 576 360 5,774 3,325 4,301 6,000 3,848
Turbot 411 293 349 323 328 3,125 2,110 2,572 3,134 2,863
Whiting 59 70 146 292 324 49 52 108 238 296
Witches 403 297 157 340 217 703 354 239 701 431
Other demersal 6,795 9,767 6,147 16,355 12,546 4,124 3,652 3,046 4,577 5,003
Total demersal 34,987 41,264 40,895 53,884 51,398 49,965 56,872 56,501 71,751 78,476
Blue whiting 34,580 22,806 6,338 3,003 38 4,036 3,727 1,130 657 18
Herring 40,347 28,887 35,502 31,300 30,311 16,878 8,843 13,286 11,957 14,080
Horse mackerel 7,559 5,463 11,668 11,648 7,837 2,481 1,856 3,706 4,387 3,472
Mackerel 33,518 37,522 72,038 60,770 87,793 21,861 34,649 68,496 56,751 98,362
Pilchards 1,144 25,481 3,863 5,960 2,009 315 918 533 1,435 460
Sardinelle aurita 10,925 6,524 8,763 15,019 3,625 3,004 1,794 2,410 4,130 1,813
Other pelagic 2,033 2,283 2,741 3,862 6,055 1,990 1,242 1,273 2,463 3,378
Total pelagic 130,105 128,967 140,914 131,562 137,667 50,564 53,030 90,834 81,779 121,583
Cuttlefish 17 13 25 56 36 25 19 49 137 104
Edible crabs 3,119 2,555 2,174 1,880 1,778 3,547 2,822 2,296 2,174 2,305
Lobsters 26 24 24 25 16 387 366 303 321 230
Nephrops 394 554 556 463 245 2,242 2,000 1,917 1,791 1,466
Patagonian squid - 739 - 3,453 1,493 - 739 - 5,724 4,003
Pink shrimps - - - 2,843 - - - - 5,118 -
Queen scallops 0 35 416 915 2,158 0 15 157 345 881
Scallops 21 27 4 17 57 26 54 6 22 108
Squid 806 207 186 203 210 1,800 695 691 808 1,119
Velvet crabs 6 5 13 1 0 11 10 13 2 1
Whelks 72 197 118 103 80 44 115 71 48 37
Other shellfish 1,032 744 183 212 380 1,348 974 273 368 620
Total shellfish 5,493 5,100 3,699 10,170 6,454 9,429 7,810 5,777 16,858 10,873
Total landings 170,585 175,330 185,508 195,617 195,520 109,958 117,712 153,112 170,388 210,932

(1) Main species are those where the total value landed into the UK or by UK vessels abroad was £2m or more in 2010.

(2) The methodology used to calculate value of landings was changed by the introduction of the Register of Buyers and Sellers ( RBS) in September 2005 - see discussion in Annex 1 - Methodology for further details.

(3) Subsequent to the publication of the 2010 bulletin it was discovered that the value of Cockles landings in 2010 had been incorrectly overstated; when corrected the value failed to meet the £2m threshold and cockles are no longer separately distinguished in the tables. The figures have been included in Other shellfish.

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