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 2.5 Number of active Scottish based vessels by main fishing method ( 1) as at 31st December 2012

District 10m & under Over 10m Total
Nephrop trawls Creel fishing Other 2 Total Pelagic Demersal Shellfish Over 10 m Total
Purse seine Pelagic trawl Other Total Trawl 3 Seine Lines Other 4 Total Nephrop trawls Creel fishing Other Total
Aberdeen 2 76 1 79 - - - - 1 - - - 1 4 3 1 8 9 88
Anstruther 11 97 1 109 - - - - - - - - - 11 1 - 12 12 121
Buckie 10 35 5 50 - - - - 13 4 1 - 18 2 2 5 9 27 77
Eyemouth 12 72 2 86 - - - - 5 1 - - 6 11 2 - 13 19 105
Fraserburgh 1 77 22 100 2 9 - 11 52 5 - 1 58 30 1 2 33 102 202
Peterhead 1 44 3 48 2 2 - 4 32 5 - 1 38 5 - 1 6 48 96
Scrabster 1 80 - 81 - - - - 1 2 - - 3 - 6 1 7 10 91
Total - East Coast 38 481 34 553 4 11 - 15 104 17 1 2 124 63 15 10 88 227 780
Orkney 3 93 6 102 - - - - 6 - - - 6 5 26 3 34 40 142
Shetland 3 114 18 135 - 8 - 8 18 5 - - 23 2 2 7 11 42 177
Stornoway - 165 4 169 - 1 - 1 6 - - - 6 14 21 4 39 46 215
Total - Islands 6 372 28 406 - 9 - 9 30 5 - - 35 21 49 14 84 128 534
Ayr 12 52 11 75 - - - - 8 - 14 7 29 18 3 31 52 81 156
Campbeltown 6 80 8 94 - - - - 4 - - - 4 28 8 9 45 49 143
Kinlochbervie 2 13 1 16 - - - - 2 - - - 2 2 1 - 3 5 21
Lochinver - 11 - 11 - - - - 1 - - - 1 - 1 - 1 2 13
Mallaig 1 24 3 28 - - - - 9 2 - - 11 10 1 1 12 23 51
Oban 4 70 8 82 - - - - 5 - - - 5 7 13 10 30 35 117
Portree 6 102 2 110 - - - - 2 - - - 2 10 9 - 19 21 131
Ullapool 5 61 7 73 - - - - 1 1 - - 2 12 10 3 25 27 100
Total - West Coast 36 413 40 489 - - - - 32 3 14 7 56 87 46 54 187 243 732
Total 80 1,266 102 1,448 4 20 - 24 166 25 15 9 215 171 110 78 359 598 2,046

(1) The main fishing method specified on a vessel's licence application may differ from the actual fishing gear used in individual voyages.

(2) The 10m & under 'other' fishing method category includes mechanical dredging; suction dredging, and shell fishing by hand.

(3) The over 10m 'Demersal Trawl' category includes; demersal single trawl, demersal pair trawl, demersal twin/multi trawl and beam trawl.

(4) The over 10m 'Demersal Other' category includes; demersal gill nets and other demersal.

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