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Publication - Statistics

Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2014

Published
3 September 2015
Topic
Marine and fisheries
ISBN
9781785445958

Statistics on the Scottish fishing fleet and its catches in 2014

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Table 2.5 Number of active Scottish based vessels by district and main fishing method ( 1) as at 31st December 2014

District 10m & under Over 10m Total
Pelagic Demersal Shellfish Over 10m Total
Nephrop trawls Creel fishing Other 2 Total Purse seine Pelagic trawl Other Total Trawl 3 Seine Lines Other 4 Total Nephrop trawls Creel fishing Other Total
Aberdeen 2 77 1 80 - - - - - - - - - 4 4 1 9 9 89
Anstruther 7 83   90 - - - - 2 - - - 2 10 2 - 12 14 104
Buckie 12 38 4 54 - - - - 12 2 1 - 15 4 2 6 12 27 81
Eyemouth 11 75 5 91 - - - - 5 1 - - 6 13 3 - 16 22 113
Fraserburgh 1 87 19 107 1 9 - 10 45 6 - - 51 33 1 2 36 97 204
Peterhead 1 53 2 56 1 2 - 3 26 4 - - 30 3 1 1 5 38 94
Scrabster 1 80   81 - - - - 1 2 - - 3 - 5 1 6 9 90
Total - East Coast 35 493 31 559 2 11 - 13 91 15 1 - 107 67 18 11 96 216 775
Orkney 2 80 7 89 - - - - 5   - - 5 4 27 5 36 41 130
Shetland 3 114 19 136 - 8 - 8 18 6 - - 24 1 3 7 11 43 179
Stornoway 1 163 6 170 - - - - 8   - - 8 15 16 5 36 44 214
Total - Islands 6 357 32 395 - 8 - 8 31 6 - - 37 20 46 17 83 128 523
Ayr 9 51 11 71 - - - - 7 - 11 4 22 17 3 35 55 77 148
Campbeltown 7 77 13 97 - - - - 6 - - - 6 27 6 9 42 48 145
Kinlochbervie 2 16 - 18 - - - - 2 - - - 2 2 - - 2 4 22
Lochinver - 13 - 13 - - - - 1 - - - 1 - 1 - 1 2 15
Mallaig 2 22 3 27 - - - - 8 2 - - 10 4 1 2 7 17 44
Oban 5 68 5 78 - - - - 3 - - - 3 9 15 12 36 39 117
Portree 4 103 2 109 - - - - 3 - - - 3 8 10   18 21 130
Ullapool 5 66 9 80 - - - - 2 1 - - 3 13 10 5 28 31 111
Total - West Coast 34 416 43 493 - - - - 32 3 11 4 50 80 46 63 189 239 732
Total 75 1,266 106 1,447 2 19 - 21 154 24 12 4 194 167 110 91 368 583 2,030

(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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