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.p Quantity and value of landings by foreign 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
Foreign vessels
Landings into Scotland
Bass - - - - - - - - - -
Black scabbardfish 3,139 3,100 2,692 2,096 1,963 3,822 3,573 5,602 4,927 3,957
Blue ling 2,517 2,906 3,027 (r) 1,750 1,497 2,453 1,784 3,772 (r) 2,235 1,866
Brill 0 - 0 - 0 0 - 1 - 0
Cod 507 603 396 (r) 225 210 1,074 1,141 669 (r) 460 393
Greenland halibut 362 833 628 (r) 339 127 558 1,576 1,714 (r) 1,078 316
Haddock 229 583 293 (r) 198 150 235 684 358 (r) 269 173
Hake 4,186 5,099 5,338 (r) 6,120 5,510 6,894 10,222 9,190 (r) 9,981 12,637
Lemon sole 2 7 5 1 1 6 20 12 1 10
Ling 1,409 1,157 1,036 (r) 1,086 1,044 1,677 1,345 1,356 (r) 1,577 1,692
Megrims 244 251 368 (r) 280 221 716 644 933 (r) 896 650
Monkfish 1,829 2,114 1,546 (r) 1,444 992 4,464 6,530 5,211 (r) 4,445 3,798
Plaice 5 4 11 1 5 4 3 9 1 4
Pollack 2 1 1 1 3 4 2 2 3 5
Red mullet - - - 0 0 - - - 0 0
Redfish 399 721 727 (r) 232 262 372 687 949 (r) 327 385
Saithe 5,406 5,116 2,840 (r) 4,906 5,456 2,297 3,524 2,631 (r) 5,117 6,031
Sole 0 0 - - - 0 0 - - -
Turbot 3 0 5 1 5 19 3 33 7 28
Whiting 13 36 13 (r) 47 26 12 35 14 (r) 37 24
Witches 42 55 42 26 30 53 60 54 38 36
Other demersal 4,923 5,017 4,485 (r) 3,168 2,346 4,182 4,509 4,004 (r) 2,960 2,543
Total demersal 25,218 27,603 23,453 (r) 21,921 19,846 28,843 36,340 36,515 (r) 34,359 34,549
Blue whiting 43,949 17,250 26,203 2,091 18,093 5,715 3,092 6,300 1,154 5,743
Herring 19,263 10,140 4,116 7,176 23,461 5,036 3,210 1,403 4,054 13,633
Horse mackerel 28 5,656 2,038 1,117 284 6 2,200 1,001 922 172
Mackerel 20,253 21,609 38,660 (r) 23,120 20,593 18,560 17,784 32,336 (r) 31,958 15,703
Pilchards - - - - - - - - - -
Sardinelle aurita - - - - - - - - - -
Other pelagic 3,588 3,925 2,628 2 2,074 1,464 705 644 1 1,455
Total pelagic 87,082 58,579 73,644 (r) 33,506 64,505 30,781 26,990 41,684 (r) 38,089 36,706
Cuttlefish - - - - - - - - - -
Edible crabs 599 914 311 (r) 27 - 676 983 495 (r) 91 -
Lobsters 4 4 0 - - 46 38 6 - -
Nephrops 25 8 12 1 15 95 18 31 6 56
Patagonian squid - - - - - - - - - -
Pink shrimps - - - - - - - - - -
Queen scallops - - - - - - - - - -
Scallops 82 53 - - - 152 102 - - -
Squid 26 25 35 (r) 14 9 54 59 80 (r) 36 43
Velvet crabs - - - - - - - - - -
Whelks - - 70 (r) - - - - 33 (r) - -
Other shellfish 194 84 187 (r) 215 94 209 632 678 (r) 840 443
Total shellfish 929 1,086 616 (r) 257 119 1,232 1,832 1,322 (r) 973 543
Total landings 113,229 87,269 97,713 (r) 55,684 84,470 60,856 65,162 79,521 (r) 73,422 71,798

(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 incorrectley overstated; when corrected the value failed to meet the £2m threshold and cockles are no longer distinguished in the tables. The figures have been included in Other shellfish.
Some 2010 figures have been revised downwards due to double counting arising from duplicated records in the vessel file

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