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 1.7d Quantity and value of all landings into Scotland by district and main species1: 2008 to 2012

Quantity (tonnes) Value (£'000)
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Kinlochbervie
Black scabbardfish 23 57 65 33 29 21 71 105 86 59
Blue ling 127 244 224 68 34 163 304 326 92 52
Cod 234 413 415 (r) 298 415 489 789 844 (r) 711 819
Cuckoo ray - 27 49 44 32 - 19 23 26 16
Forkbeard 66 80 99 119 93 49 62 101 133 94
Greenland halibut 10 114 101 - 58 22 197 206 - 154
Haddock 1,141 1,633 1,646 (r) 996 1,648 1,369 1,918 2,052 (r) 1,303 1,647
Hake 96 99 158 (r) 253 224 125 95 181 (r) 377 321
Ling 190 401 407 (r) 392 617 248 485 550 (r) 589 775
Megrims 312 432 577 (r) 420 365 772 1,067 1,638 (r) 1,343 899
Monkfish 933 1,170 1,158 (r) 986 1,099 2,719 3,988 4,110 (r) 3,627 3,669
Portuguese dogfish 34 14 20 - - 26 17 21 - -
Red gurnards 7 62 91 20 29 4 18 64 23 12
Redfishes 61 89 185 95 99 54 108 207 157 148
Saithe 731 1,420 1,434 (r) 1,704 1,984 388 1,026 1,289 (r) 1,652 1,988
Spotted ray - 14 21 21 22 - 13 21 23 17
Thornback ray - 38 28 26 - - 49 32 37 -
Tusk 46 77 71 27 51 39 44 66 27 50
Whiting 79 114 179 118 174 79 116 194 141 188
Other demersal 180 203 133 158 356 263 356 278 296 436
Total demersal 4,269 6,698 7,060 (r) 5,778 7,329 6,831 10,741 12,307 (r) 10,644 11,344
Total pelagic 0 0 5 10 21 0 0 1 4 10
Edible crabs 122 167 335 374 469 143 171 385 427 581
Nephrops 151 167 75 84 215 453 480 305 432 930
Squid 199 103 289 253 250 551 222 533 766 766
Other shellfish 156 44 37 36 104 1,224 232 333 214 300
Total shellfish 629 480 735 746 1,039 2,371 1,106 1,556 1,839 2,578
Total landings 4,898 7,179 7,800 (r) 6,534 8,388 9,203 11,847 13,865 (r) 12,487 13,932
Lochinver
Black scabbardfish 2,232 2,089 1,805 1,624 1,552 2,464 1,373 3,511 3,834 3,340
Blue ling 1,533 2,303 1,882 (r) 1,271 1,293 1,381 1,369 2,515 (r) 1,626 1,658
Bluemouth 111 150 157 126 114 101 190 272 282 162
Bream rays 71 643 559 26 - 73 1,173 905 61 -
Cod 136 145 220 (r) 107 60 261 289 423 (r) 227 128
Common mora - 0 25 - - - 0 63 - -
Conger eels 36 43 37 40 33 18 28 40 44 38
Forkbeard 546 371 301 297 417 526 512 329 397 574
Greenland halibut 124 119 239 (r) 242 63 72 142 510 (r) 756 189
Haddock 263 360 306 (r) 433 141 285 402 369 (r) 656 185
Hake 3,917 4,965 5,646 6,677 5,830 6,620 9,938 9,689 10,947 13,306
Leafscale gulper shark 22 69 140 - - 2 6 14 - -
Ling 1,438 1,076 1,386 (r) 1,505 1,386 1,696 1,251 1,931 (r) 2,184 2,288
Megrims 275 242 381 312 230 813 643 968 1,014 673
Monkfish 1,763 1,375 1,020 (r) 902 524 4,490 4,275 3,784 (r) 2,937 1,846
Portuguese dogfish 491 371 69 - 236 305 182 76 - 228
Rabbit fish 242 258 296 268 253 138 83 80 73 52
Redfishes 145 198 485 (r) 151 63 102 179 620 (r) 208 103
Roes 21 8 31 (r) 56 - 38 11 57 (r) 134 -
Roundnose grenadier 1,452 1,511 1,410 764 724 1,231 996 1,228 940 924
Saithe 3,281 2,400 2,199 3,320 2,423 1,241 1,685 2,057 3,457 2,705
Spurdog 25 17 20 - - 25 20 25 - -
Thornback ray - 27 21 - - - 29 33 - -
Tusk 271 281 198 (r) 213 140 159 177 128 (r) 190 122
Witches 34 26 34 27 29 44 30 47 38 36
Other demersal 375 284 235 (r) 290 228 420 264 270 (r) 412 303
Total demersal 18,804 19,330 19,104 (r) 18,649 15,739 22,504 25,248 29,942 (r) 30,417 28,859
Total pelagic 2 3 0 0 0 3 2 1 1 0
Nephrops 857 903 403 598 686 2,523 2,418 1,528 2,456 2,824
Squid 34 61 68 260 46 74 114 133 975 173
Other shellfish 35 35 23 25 33 79 107 71 72 85
Total shellfish 925 999 493 884 765 2,676 2,639 1,732 3,503 3,082
Total landings 19,732 20,332 19,597 (r) 19,533 16,504 25,183 27,889 31,675 (r) 33,921 31,940

(1) Main species are those where the quantity landed into Scottish districts was 20 tonnes or over in 2010.
Some 2010 figures have been revised downwards due to double counting arising from duplicated records in the vessel file.

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