Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2012

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


Table 1.1.k Quantity and value of landings by all UK vessels into Scotland, by main species 1,3: 2008 to 2012

Quantity (tonnes) Value (£'000) 2
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
UK vessels
Landings into Scotland
Bass 1 1 1 0 0 5 6 4 1 2
Black scabbardfish 26 81 104 36 34 28 123 170 90 69
Blue ling 222 360 384 76 48 290 397 494 102 70
Brill 1 1 2 2 3 6 5 6 7 11
Cod 7,645 9,350 12,617 10,994 11,087 16,054 16,721 24,783 24,161 21,801
Greenland halibut 144 317 418 62 67 233 574 984 202 174
Haddock 29,488 32,681 29,461 25,535 30,925 32,679 32,133 33,736 32,117 32,313
Hake 3,487 5,702 4,972 6,064 5,674 6,214 10,506 9,008 11,180 11,870
Lemon sole 933 607 525 564 526 2,321 1,282 1,187 1,612 1,373
Ling 2,571 3,579 3,795 3,774 3,714 3,161 4,204 5,299 5,621 5,240
Megrims 2,528 2,583 2,339 2,165 2,054 6,855 6,752 6,478 7,073 5,490
Monkfish 10,086 9,898 8,209 7,941 6,562 28,021 31,201 28,074 27,587 21,058
Plaice 832 672 678 773 941 658 486 490 627 777
Pollack 973 636 546 483 457 1,821 1,148 1,024 1,122 976
Red mullet 21 12 6 3 1 27 36 21 11 4
Redfish 174 175 428 119 121 178 209 500 198 176
Saithe 12,783 14,264 13,519 12,485 10,809 7,334 9,963 12,295 13,146 11,148
Sole 3 2 2 3 4 16 11 10 24 20
Turbot 46 42 42 48 43 340 309 338 424 342
Whiting 9,226 7,965 7,119 7,923 8,852 9,277 7,968 8,007 9,782 9,481
Witches 872 794 651 613 633 1,063 1,035 836 809 678
Other demersal 2,072 2,849 2,602 1,834 1,839 3,428 4,548 4,254 3,067 2,580
Total demersal 84,134 92,570 88,419 81,498 84,393 120,011 129,617 137,998 138,963 125,654
Blue whiting 15,345 11 4,937 1,324 6,301 1,449 0 982 595 1,732
Herring 32,367 25,188 27,566 25,326 32,617 8,272 7,722 7,952 12,794 16,090
Horse mackerel 633 839 1,167 2,215 1,321 149 226 497 1,183 729
Mackerel 86,619 94,557 95,180 89,142 63,230 64,634 79,737 78,025 102,259 59,127
Pilchards 164 - - - - 14 - - - -
Sardinelle aurita - - - - - - - - - -
Other pelagic 248 1,039 639 510 1,764 43 115 147 115 406
Total pelagic 135,376 121,633 129,488 118,516 105,232 74,562 87,800 87,604 116,947 78,083
Cuttlefish 0 - 0 0 - 0 - 0 0 -
Edible crabs 8,831 9,511 10,704 11,900 10,870 10,126 10,514 12,639 14,159 13,185
Lobsters 1,026 1,097 1,135 1,238 1,131 10,949 11,369 11,698 13,147 11,770
Nephrops 32,765 31,492 28,895 24,338 21,825 95,475 78,268 79,645 86,748 82,077
Patagonian squid - - - - - - - - - -
Pink shrimps - - - 0 0 - - - 0 0
Queen scallops 4,562 4,498 7,473 9,357 7,540 1,700 1,872 2,904 3,771 3,109
Scallops 10,086 9,847 9,335 7,794 10,392 25,094 19,080 17,608 16,081 20,555
Squid 1,515 2,068 3,152 2,137 1,413 4,384 4,280 8,536 8,500 4,322
Velvet crabs 2,711 2,762 2,518 2,193 2,032 5,832 6,135 6,403 5,801 4,864
Whelks 255 363 350 239 347 162 193 191 138 216
Other shellfish 1,850 1,499 1,919 1,137 1,362 2,425 2,436 2,946 2,620 3,522
Total shellfish 63,601 63,137 65,481 60,333 56,912 156,147 134,147 142,568 150,965 143,621
Total landings 283,111 277,341 283,388 260,347 246,537 350,720 351,564 368,170 406,874 347,358

(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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