Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2013

Statistics on the Scottish fishing fleet and its catches in 2013


Table 2.5 Number of active Scottish based vessels by main fishing method (1) as at 31st December 2013

10m & under Over 10m
Pelagic Demersal Shellfish Over
Nephrop Creel Other 2 Total Purse Pelagic Other Total Trawl 3 Seine Lines Other 4 Total Nephrop Creel Other Total 10 m Total
District trawls fishing seine trawl trawls fishing Total
Aberdeen 2 75 1 78 - - - - - - - - - 4 3 1 8 8 86
Anstruther 8 83 - 91 - - - - - - - - - 11 1 - 12 12 103
Buckie 9 37 4 50 - - - - 12 3 1 - 16 3 2 5 10 26 76
Eyemouth 10 75 4 89 - - - - 5 1 - - 6 11 3 - 14 20 109
Fraserburgh 1 75 20 96 1 9 - 10 48 5 - 1 54 33 1 2 36 100 196
Peterhead 1 48 2 51 2 2 - 4 32 4 - - 36 5 - 1 6 46 97
Scrabster 1 81 - 82 - - - - 1 2 - - 3 - 6 1 7 10 92
Total - East Coast 32 474 31 537 3 11 - 14 98 15 1 1 115 67 16 10 93 222 759
Orkney 2 85 8 95 - - - - 6 - - - 6 5 28 4 37 43 138
Shetland 3 112 17 132 - 8 - 8 18 5 - - 23 1 2 7 10 41 173
Stornoway - 168 4 172 - 1 - 1 7 - - - 7 14 19 5 38 46 218
Total - Islands 5 365 29 399 - 9 - 9 31 5 - - 36 20 49 16 85 130 529
Ayr 11 56 11 78 - - - - 9 - 12 4 25 17 3 34 54 79 157
Campbeltown 6 77 12 95 - - - - 5 - - - 5 29 6 8 43 48 143
Kinlochbervie 2 12 - 14 - - - - 2 - - - 2 2 1 - 3 5 19
Lochinver - 11 - 11 - - - - 1 - - - 1 - 1 - 1 2 13
Mallaig 2 25 3 30 - - - - 9 2 - - 11 7 1 1 9 20 50
Oban 3 71 6 80 - - - - 4 - - - 4 9 14 13 36 40 120
Portree 5 100 2 107 - - - - 3 - - - 3 8 9 - 17 20 127
Ullapool 4 63 8 75 - - - - 1 1 - - 2 12 10 4 26 28 103
Total - West Coast 33 415 42 490 - - - - 34 3 12 4 53 84 45 60 189 242 732
Total 70 1,254 102 1,426 3 20 - 23 163 23 13 5 204 171 110 86 367 594 2,020

(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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