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.b Quantity and value of landings by Scottish vessels into Rest of UK, by main species1: 2011 to 2015

  Quantity (tonnes) Value (£'000)
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Scottish vessels
Landings into the Rest of the UK
Bass 89 37 25 0 2 553 219 211 3 13
Black scabbardfish - - - - - - - - - -
Brill 9 7 7 8 8 43 30 32 30 27
Cod 82 62 37 17 21 161 117 66 27 31
Haddock 401 552 201 52 91 366 498 219 103 121
Hake 15 18 6 2 6 26 23 7 3 10
Lemon sole 62 75 83 29 29 188 155 203 90 100
Ling 11 12 8 3 7 14 13 8 2 7
Megrims 71 52 32 18 25 247 126 40 40 40
Monkfish 183 175 110 97 126 555 463 278 205 247
Plaice 72 116 175 95 85 74 99 140 72 64
Pollack 3 3 3 1 1 9 8 5 1 1
Saithe 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
Skates and rays 25 20 14 8 8 33 22 14 6 4
Sole 7 10 9 7 6 70 85 60 47 43
Turbot 17 17 18 22 19 126 97 105 118 102
Whiting 232 285 286 96 107 223 231 212 75 90
Other demersal 197 138 175 50 100 617 249 164 70 165
Total demersal 1,477 1,579 1,188 505 642 3,305 2,436 1,764 890 1,066
Blue whiting - - - - - - - - - -
Herring 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 - 0
Horse mackerel 7 1 0 0 0 6 1 0 0 0
Mackerel 2 1 2 0 0 3 1 3 0 0
Other pelagic 34 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0
Total pelagic 43 2 2 0 0 20 2 3 0 0
Cockles 10 6 - - - 8 3 - - -
Cuttlefish 47 160 154 56 286 139 274 275 110 541
Edible crabs 85 11 5 1 250 96 14 6 2 243
Lobsters 21 8 3 5 4 209 66 34 40 44
Nephrops 809 1,510 1,509 1,534 1,244 2,898 5,046 4,467 4,606 3,755
Queen scallops 5,532 5,248 4,516 3,854 5,659 1,989 2,020 1,878 1,763 3,160
Scallops 8,237 7,417 5,715 6,038 5,907 14,763 12,163 9,553 11,156 11,483
Squid 35 16 31 28 28 164 78 151 73 100
Velvet crabs 9 1 0 0 0 14 2 1 0 0
Whelks 52 50 213 210 317 31 33 152 167 299
Other shellfish 3 3 6 0 3 3 2 3 0 8
Total shellfish 14,840 14,431 12,151 11,726 13,700 20,315 19,699 16,520 17,916 19,633
Total landings 16,360 16,012 13,342 12,231 14,342 23,641 22,138 18,286 18,807 20,700

(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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