Publication - Statistics

Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2012

Published: 12 September 2013
Topic: Marine and fisheries
ISBN: 9781782568124

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

Table 1.7h Quantity and value of all landings into Scotland by district and main species ¹: 2008 to 2012

	2008	2009	2010		2011	2012	2008	2009	2010		2011	2012
	Quantity (tonnes)						Value (£'000)
Scrabster
Black scabbardfish	680	1,021	902		473	415	1,160	2,221	2,122		1,095	624
Blue ling	473	693	1,237	(r)	484	211	597	484	1,362	(r)	614	214
Bream rays	13	328	113		13	-	14	476	182		35	-
Cod	1,001	1,206	1,192	(r)	991	867	2,171	2,180	2,300	(r)	2,148	1,687
Forkbeard	16	42	42		10	14	13	48	35		11	13
Greenland halibut	333	894	648	(r)	133	40	625	1,768	1,857	(r)	453	78
Haddock	1,626	2,751	2,003	(r)	1,884	2,540	1,908	3,226	2,475	(r)	2,708	2,742
Hake	909	2,265	1,221	(r)	1,404	883	1,995	5,121	2,822	(r)	3,578	3,220
Halibut	18	27	20		10	4	110	148	109		54	24
Ling	495	901	625	(r)	593	493	585	1,062	827	(r)	910	727
Megrims	661	622	553	(r)	511	394	1,957	1,725	1,572	(r)	1,693	1,113
Monkfish	1,830	1,891	1,931	(r)	1,930	1,737	5,134	5,599	6,956	(r)	6,731	5,841
Plaice	42	54	67		61	55	35	38	48		48	46
Pollack	22	23	32		34	57	39	41	62		74	127
Portuguese dogfish	101	193	238		122	96	95	128	280		159	141
Red gurnards	45	77	96		82	35	12	20	37		23	8
Redfishes	233	576	414	(r)	45	61	253	579	524	(r)	81	90
Roundnose grenadier	504	345	238		72	16	386	155	283		112	21
Saithe	3,712	4,577	2,304	(r)	1,961	1,194	1,959	3,135	2,042	(r)	2,063	1,211
Skates and rays	111	95	68		35	37	84	79	57		31	29
Tusk	69	320	101	(r)	117	45	55	245	67	(r)	88	33
Whiting	400	559	416		428	392	449	615	464		527	441
Witches	45	42	35		35	36	50	52	44		44	38
Other demersal	238	286	198	(r)	216	186	481	494	437	(r)	375	263
Total demersal	13,576	19,786	14,693	(r)	11,644	9,807	20,165	29,639	26,962	(r)	23,653	18,730
Argentines	-	0	39		2	-	-	0	18		1	-
Other pelagic	1	7	3		4	8	1	1	1		2	4
Total pelagic	1	8	41		6	8	1	1	19		3	4
Edible crabs	2,518	3,214	2,823		2,899	2,453	3,153	3,737	3,573		3,728	3,225
Lobsters	79	115	130		146	116	908	1,193	1,382		1,565	1,254
Mussels	923	341	475		-	-	257	87	115		-	-
Nephrops	221	153	91		110	52	733	417	304		516	242
Scallops	464	538	477		528	659	1,224	1,170	840		1,506	1,359
Squid	133	113	373		283	53	395	255	998		1,004	197
Velvet crabs	135	121	118		112	108	264	250	264		261	226
Whelks	111	99	140		24	26	68	54	82		14	17
Other shellfish	6	25	7		9	8	6	20	15		30	25
Total shellfish	4,591	4,719	4,635		4,111	3,476	7,008	7,184	7,574		8,625	6,546
Total landings	18,168	24,512	19,370	(r)	15,761	13,291	27,173	36,824	34,556	(r)	32,281	25,279

(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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