Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2013

Statistics on the Scottish fishing fleet and its catches in 2013


Table 1.1.c Quantity and value of landings by Scottish vessels into the whole of the UK, by main species 1: 2009 to 2013

Quantity (tonnes) Value (£'000) 2
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Scottish vessels
Landings into the UK
Bass 4 35 89 38 27 33 221 553 221 223
Black scabbardfish 81 104 36 34 57 123 170 90 69 105
Blue ling 356 384 76 48 217 396 494 102 70 307
Brill 6 8 10 10 11 28 38 49 40 52
Cod 8,951 11,768 10,204 10,605 10,538 16,078 23,261 22,506 20,924 20,799
Haddock 31,647 28,017 24,403 30,539 34,452 31,411 32,300 30,816 31,936 38,534
Hake 5,679 4,882 5,956 5,464 3,966 10,523 8,918 11,045 11,019 9,378
Lemon sole 610 517 599 576 739 1,317 1,204 1,735 1,459 2,016
Ling 3,481 3,708 3,689 3,646 3,291 4,096 5,182 5,489 5,123 4,476
Megrims 2,765 2,375 2,206 2,088 2,215 7,273 6,634 7,244 5,580 5,312
Monkfish 9,782 7,942 7,812 6,437 6,001 31,075 27,298 27,003 20,525 18,130
Plaice 675 662 777 958 1,708 499 486 651 780 1,322
Pollack 519 384 352 425 373 964 757 854 926 740
Saithe 12,783 11,357 10,907 9,895 10,468 8,910 10,287 11,367 10,248 8,719
Skates and rays 582 555 583 527 545 588 549 624 460 481
Sole 14 7 10 13 10 86 53 90 102 70
Turbot 46 48 60 57 61 331 367 503 417 463
Whiting 7,901 6,846 7,662 8,953 9,897 7,885 7,693 9,378 9,517 10,063
Other demersal 3,539 3,672 2,174 2,232 2,702 5,877 5,967 4,147 3,342 3,590
Total demersal 89,421 83,270 77,607 82,543 87,276 127,493 131,881 134,247 122,759 124,781
Blue whiting 11 4,937 1,324 6,301 8,165 0 982 595 1,732 1,818
Herring 25,197 22,306 22,020 31,844 28,652 7,724 6,465 11,126 15,711 10,840
Horse mackerel 956 1,170 174 1,248 588 258 497 91 681 333
Mackerel 94,736 91,471 84,852 61,973 74,213 79,838 74,443 96,929 58,177 66,203
Other pelagic 1,039 696 544 1,764 968 115 162 127 406 225
Total pelagic 121,939 120,581 108,915 103,129 112,586 87,937 82,550 108,869 76,707 79,420
Brown shrimps 2 1 0 1 0 16 12 6 16 2
Cockles 9 220 0 11 0 20 216 0 12 0
Cuttlefish 4 50 47 160 154 7 113 139 274 275
Edible crabs 8,191 9,169 9,779 9,481 9,515 9,003 10,690 11,485 11,327 11,776
Lobsters 1,102 1,133 1,244 1,131 1,022 11,375 11,633 13,195 11,758 10,511
Nephrops 30,269 26,737 22,488 21,127 18,320 76,264 75,644 83,201 81,537 63,600
Queen scallops 4,925 7,492 14,467 12,517 9,764 2,048 2,875 5,564 4,995 4,867
Razor fish 706 588 679 817 854 1,751 1,590 1,850 2,325 2,969
Scallops 17,327 18,753 15,781 17,048 17,497 29,934 31,910 30,932 31,250 31,682
Squid 2,072 3,127 2,152 1,415 1,180 4,320 8,494 8,601 4,361 4,242
Velvet crabs 2,778 2,523 2,199 2,029 1,570 6,151 6,408 5,810 4,852 3,974
Whelks 355 373 289 380 884 188 208 168 237 631
Other shellfish 966 944 419 454 700 666 818 648 918 759
Total shellfish 68,705 71,110 69,545 66,571 61,461 141,743 150,611 161,598 153,863 135,288
Total landings 280,066 274,961 256,066 252,243 261,323 357,173 365,042 404,714 353,329 339,489

(1) Main species are those where the total value landed into the UK or by UK vessels abroad was £2m or more in 2013.
(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.

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