Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2013

Statistics on the Scottish fishing fleet and its catches in 2013


Table 1.1.r Quantity and value of landings by foreign 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
Foreign vessels
Landings into the UK
Bass 18 12 21 16 22 125 90 158 123 124
Black scabbardfish 3,100 2,692 2,096 1,963 2,296 3,573 5,602 4,927 3,957 4,404
Blue ling 2,906 3,027 1,750 1,497 1,634 1,784 3,772 2,235 1,866 2,130
Brill 80 91 93 81 67 459 554 588 424 265
Cod 6,551 5,947 1,427 1,651 488 11,804 7,278 2,710 3,253 836
Haddock 1,468 1,159 715 439 542 1,645 1,024 903 487 583
Hake 5,117 5,365 6,170 5,518 4,538 10,275 9,239 10,190 12,652 11,052
Lemon sole 122 163 257 294 327 338 679 1,033 744 623
Ling 1,238 1,057 1,118 1,088 1,288 1,426 1,398 1,631 1,762 1,730
Megrims 574 586 527 680 659 1,400 1,380 1,447 1,281 902
Monkfish 2,497 1,973 2,046 1,930 1,890 7,863 6,625 6,190 6,345 4,495
Plaice 471 780 1,032 787 730 549 1,274 1,465 925 737
Pollack 17 22 24 31 25 39 55 57 67 47
Saithe 5,430 2,952 4,909 5,457 6,798 3,785 2,680 5,121 6,033 6,111
Skates and rays 829 799 1,110 1,161 926 1,267 1,706 1,795 1,586 1,162
Sole 625 744 923 954 792 5,283 7,493 9,362 8,823 5,273
Turbot 73 97 108 127 98 593 903 971 859 551
Whiting 120 166 269 212 315 99 147 234 206 220
Other demersal 7,222 6,435 4,551 3,450 3,527 7,608 7,466 5,648 4,220 4,492
Total demersal 38,458 34,068 29,146 27,336 26,962 59,915 59,364 56,666 55,613 45,739
Blue whiting 17,250 26,203 2,091 18,093 1,245 3,092 6,300 1,154 5,743 297
Herring 10,325 4,837 8,315 24,899 8,455 3,247 1,578 4,552 14,641 3,314
Horse mackerel 7,139 2,438 2,118 710 409 2,474 1,188 1,383 556 275
Mackerel 21,912 39,302 23,988 21,402 21,352 18,053 32,760 33,366 16,796 19,281
Other pelagic 3,925 2,628 2 2,074 352 705 644 1 1,453 110
Total pelagic 60,551 75,406 36,514 67,177 31,814 27,569 42,470 40,456 39,189 23,277
Brown shrimps 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cockles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cuttlefish 12 25 52 114 69 20 127 144 245 66
Edible crabs 1,141 374 99 88 67 1,340 538 148 55 29
Lobsters 5 3 2 1 1 48 32 19 16 10
Nephrops 131 159 191 405 198 213 294 451 914 388
Queen scallops 5 2 53 1 0 1 1 19 0 0
Razor fish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Scallops 1,019 645 375 667 659 1,445 945 621 1,066 1,070
Squid 58 68 81 58 85 153 203 349 283 258
Velvet crabs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Whelks 36 92 13 32 14 15 49 5 13 5
Other shellfish 107 224 259 158 98 645 693 874 485 94
Total shellfish 2,513 1,591 1,125 1,525 1,191 3,881 2,881 2,630 3,077 1,920
Total landings 101,522 111,066 66,784 96,038 59,967 91,365 104,714 99,752 97,879 70,936

(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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