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Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2015

Published: 29 September 2016
ISBN: 9781786524300

Details of landings of sea fish, the Scottish fishing fleet and the number of sea fishermen employed.

Table 1.1.i Quantity and value of landings by other UK vessels abroad, by main species ¹: 2011 to 2015

	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
	Quantity (tonnes)					Value (£'000)
Other UK vessels
Landings abroad
Bass	15	70	30	37	40	107	495	153	261	338
Black scabbardfish	0	7	-	-	-	0	8	-	-	-
Brill	109	93	89	91	107	605	474	516	592	471
Cod	10,376	13,595	16,185	16,038	12,559	18,506	18,415	19,390	21,531	18,905
Haddock	1,524	1,076	949	780	755	1,826	1,295	928	999	777
Hake	567	252	945	1,295	1,813	887	416	2,688	2,669	2,721
Lemon sole	295	295	337	370	336	989	889	908	1,096	1,149
Ling	142	113	329	180	298	198	174	514	202	373
Megrims	815	665	1,172	1,465	1,554	2,041	1,878	3,475	5,327	4,892
Monkfish	1,412	1,346	2,494	2,744	2,545	4,692	5,398	8,353	9,834	9,208
Plaice	11,707	13,394	13,964	12,492	12,216	15,578	18,502	14,656	13,865	15,547
Pollack	382	433	612	539	498	1,089	1,114	1,411	580	548
Saithe	3,017	1,984	1,414	1,323	2,732	2,890	1,891	1,545	1,657	2,780
Skates and rays	290	209	304	323	359	468	331	619	559	694
Sole	358	265	459	514	528	3,817	2,455	3,428	4,137	4,469
Turbot	274	261	253	276	213	2,358	1,964	1,868	2,223	1,573
Whiting	172	268	551	673	674	159	362	503	619	562
Other demersal	2,887	1,948	1,945	2,365	2,985	3,686	2,873	2,456	3,164	4,026
Total demersal	34,344	36,273	42,031	41,507	40,213	59,896	58,934	63,412	69,315	69,033
Blue whiting	31	2,749	5,332	2,216	1,269	17	1,500	1,206	1,325	282
Herring	14,615	29,748	27,252	29,268	28,531	8,232	7,573	7,834	8,320	9,593
Horse mackerel	7,038	7,610	8,812	8,776	4,656	3,172	3,397	3,930	3,871	2,278
Mackerel	26,690	28,670	25,802	42,876	40,631	32,179	21,600	16,308	27,239	24,222
Other pelagic	5,964	4,398	276	516	140	2,520	1,422	76	181	36
Total pelagic	54,337	73,173	67,474	83,651	75,229	46,120	35,491	29,353	40,934	36,410
Cockles	27	29	12	0	-	39	28	11	0	-
Cuttlefish	26	80	43	30	40	71	207	102	75	103
Edible crabs	1,929	2,451	2,834	3,268	3,137	2,452	3,265	4,312	5,376	4,752
Lobsters	22	23	28	31	36	303	262	256	276	315
Nephrops	77	19	39	17	96	358	62	102	74	346
Queen scallops	169	2,106	707	60	16	71	847	416	36	12
Scallops	55	16	153	384	113	105	21	264	628	181
Squid	100	159	87	419	414	556	807	367	1,603	1,858
Velvet crabs	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	1	0
Whelks	80	85	130	310	67	36	45	93	197	52
Other shellfish	1,803	7,058	2,418	3,780	4,190	4,451	7,562	2,900	3,677	2,657
Total shellfish	4,288	12,027	6,450	8,299	8,109	8,443	13,109	8,823	11,944	10,278
Total landings	92,968	121,474	115,955	133,458	123,551	114,458	107,534	101,588	122,193	115,721

(1) Main species are those where the total value landed into the UK or by UK vessels abroad was £2m or more in 2015.

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