Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2015

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


Table 1.1.q Quantity and value of landings by foreign vessels into the rest of the UK, by main species 1: 2011 to 2015

Quantity (tonnes) Value (£'000)
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Foreign vessels
Landings into the Rest of the UK
Bass 21 16 22 12 13 158 123 124 4 66
Black scabbardfish - - - - - - - - - -
Brill 93 81 67 50 58 590 426 265 35 290
Cod 2,527 1,442 198 142 126 2,865 1,630 311 22 189
Haddock 806 289 156 131 103 699 276 155 55 122
Hake 50 9 11 10 8 210 15 12 2 10
Lemon sole 256 293 324 335 230 1,032 734 614 64 858
Ling 32 44 42 69 24 54 71 53 3 39
Megrims 246 459 431 125 181 551 631 352 50 345
Monkfish 603 939 830 317 481 1,745 2,554 1,685 120 1,292
Plaice 1,038 785 710 722 870 1,472 922 723 419 880
Pollack 22 29 24 54 20 54 62 45 4 41
Saithe 3 1 1 1 1 4 2 1 0 1
Skates and rays 1,050 1,107 857 573 719 1,735 1,541 1,102 78 1,066
Sole 925 957 792 778 691 9,391 8,844 5,273 532 5,298
Turbot 107 121 95 67 70 964 833 532 94 509
Whiting 222 186 261 248 169 197 182 165 23 113
Other demersal 870 742 694 566 821 1,299 984 488 297 672
Total demersal 8,872 7,500 5,516 4,199 4,584 23,020 19,830 11,902 1,802 11,789
Blue whiting - - - - - - - - - -
Herring 1,139 1,437 892 2,289 1,517 497 1,008 317 560 447
Horse mackerel 1,001 467 153 282 340 462 412 94 208 208
Mackerel 868 809 606 2,241 1,729 1,408 1,093 625 2,415 1,466
Other pelagic - 0 0 0 4 - 0 0 0 1
Total pelagic 3,008 2,714 1,651 4,812 3,590 2,367 2,513 1,036 3,183 2,123
Cockles - - - - - - - - - -
Cuttlefish 52 114 69 26 167 144 245 66 10 260
Edible crabs 72 88 67 60 61 57 55 29 3 32
Lobsters 2 2 1 0 0 19 17 10 2 3
Nephrops 190 390 198 145 156 446 857 387 282 320
Queen scallops 53 1 - - 7 19 0 - - 5
Scallops 394 679 659 1,149 742 631 1,086 1,070 1,803 1,402
Squid 67 49 56 20 66 313 240 154 18 77
Velvet crabs - 0 - - - - 0 - - -
Whelks 13 32 14 7 9 5 13 5 1 5
Other shellfish 44 64 86 12 28 34 42 63 1 14
Total shellfish 887 1,419 1,149 1,421 1,237 1,668 2,555 1,785 2,121 2,118
Total landings 12,767 11,633 8,316 10,432 9,411 27,056 24,898 14,723 7,107 16,030

(1) Main species are those where the total value landed into the UK or by UK vessels abroad was £2m or more in 2015.
(2) The reduction in value for some demersal species in 2014 is due to a lack of sales notes from foreign vessel landings in to the UK and does not reflect a genuine decrease in the value.

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