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.b Quantity and value of landings by Scottish vessels into the rest of the UK, by main species 1,3: 2008 to 2012

Quantity (tonnes) Value (£'000) 2
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Scottish vessels
Landings into the Rest of the UK
Bass 24 3 35 89 37 139 27 217 553 219
Black scabbardfish - - - - - - - - - -
Blue ling - - - - - - - - - -
Brill 8 5 7 9 7 35 24 33 43 29
Cod 21 57 20 82 63 36 102 38 161 118
Greenland halibut - - - 0 0 - - - 0 0
Haddock 45 184 73 401 551 27 189 89 403 498
Hake 24 51 16 15 18 40 83 32 26 23
Lemon sole 7 35 22 62 75 12 92 68 188 156
Ling 5 8 4 11 12 6 9 5 14 13
Megrims 134 223 62 71 52 410 613 210 247 126
Monkfish 188 214 126 182 174 575 647 377 554 463
Plaice 22 31 34 72 116 20 32 31 74 100
Pollack 0 5 1 3 3 1 10 2 9 8
Red mullet 1 13 5 37 10 1 64 16 276 50
Redfish - 0 0 0 - - 0 0 0 -
Saithe 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1
Sole 10 12 6 7 10 90 76 45 70 84
Turbot 12 9 12 17 17 72 61 81 125 97
Whiting 73 143 58 231 285 43 95 44 222 230
Witches 15 15 11 12 20 30 36 38 26 31
Other demersal 56 75 237 172 128 124 165 128 348 190
Total demersal 645 1,082 730 1,475 1,579 1,659 2,325 1,452 3,339 2,437
Blue whiting - - - - - - - - - -
Herring - 9 0 0 0 - 3 0 0 0
Horse mackerel 109 117 4 7 1 38 32 0 6 1
Mackerel 0 786 303 2 1 0 603 246 3 1
Pilchards 9 - 11 34 - 0 - 4 11 -
Sardinelle aurita - - - - 0 - - - - 0
Other pelagic 15 0 46 0 0 0 0 11 0 0
Total pelagic 134 912 363 43 2 39 637 261 20 2
Cuttlefish 2 4 50 47 160 3 7 112 139 274
Edible crabs 27 40 35 85 11 30 42 34 96 14
Lobsters 17 18 16 21 8 191 161 132 209 66
Nephrops 426 1,012 433 809 1,505 973 2,139 974 2,898 5,039
Patagonian squid - - - - - - - - - -
Pink shrimps - - - - - - - - - -
Queen scallops 60 818 449 5,526 5,246 22 334 184 1,986 2,019
Scallops 5,331 8,199 9,920 8,258 7,382 9,357 12,007 15,144 15,387 12,098
Squid 9 19 18 35 16 26 67 55 164 78
Velvet crabs 17 19 6 9 1 24 26 8 14 2
Whelks 28 - 27 52 50 17 - 19 31 32
Other shellfish 34 209 36 3 9 122 55 19 3 4
Total shellfish 5,951 10,339 10,988 14,846 14,388 10,764 14,838 16,682 20,929 19,627
Total landings 6,730 12,332 12,082 16,365 15,969 12,462 17,800 18,396 24,288 22,066

(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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