Publication - Statistics

Scottish sea fisheries statistics 2016

Published: 28 September 2017
Directorate: Marine Directorate
Topic: Marine and fisheries
ISBN: 9781788512169

Annual National Statistics report on the quantity and value of landings of sea fish and shellfish by Scottish vessels and landings into Scotland.

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Table 1.1.d Quantity and value of landings by Scottish vessels abroad, by main species ¹: 2012 to 2016

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
	Quantity (tonnes)					Value (£'000)
Scottish vessels
Landings Abroad
Bass	14	1	-	-	-	85	9	-	-	-
Black scabbardfish	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Blue Ling	-	2	2	1	2	-	2	0	1	3
Brill	16	18	16	12	22	81	93	100	55	119
Cod	167	262	212	216	190	428	581	526	465	441
Haddock	100	137	89	110	105	98	150	127	155	153
Hake	1,565	1,542	1,484	2,030	1,642	3,780	3,991	3,603	5,694	4,140
Lemon sole	79	130	133	106	111	252	413	445	354	391
Ling	501	244	254	173	342	788	298	330	264	486
Megrims	654	125	179	149	156	2,150	280	487	578	658
Monkfish	1,861	985	1,733	1,363	1,236	6,771	2,417	4,608	2,696	2,295
Plaice	1,941	3,124	3,099	3,115	4,074	2,379	3,412	3,202	3,441	5,500
Pollack	29	23	21	22	18	60	36	41	38	35
Red mullet	48	3	0	0	0	294	25	0	0	0
Saithe	138	388	285	368	274	309	391	317	416	349
Skates and rays	74	37	27	35	54	70	41	34	38	61
Sole	18	57	39	30	39	128	378	288	253	390
Turbot	47	50	49	37	57	364	390	397	291	464
Whiting	80	102	20	25	22	90	83	23	29	28
Wrasses	0	-	-	-	-	0	-	-	-	-
Other demersal	5,860	7,511	544	2,432	441	1,904	1,803	435	784	483
Total demersal	13,191	14,739	8,185	10,223	8,786	20,030	14,793	14,962	15,551	15,998
Blue whiting	4	1	15,930	18,359	24,988	1	0	2,557	4,317	6,117
Herring	22,477	29,056	30,067	26,650	32,451	13,260	11,858	9,929	9,965	21,895
Horse mackerel	253	88	888	39	964	124	1	527	5	666
Mackerel	72,372	59,780	118,930	112,524	92,392	72,919	59,935	95,853	75,006	86,445
Pilchards	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Other pelagic	1,552	881	815	634	297	3,065	1,898	1,729	1,285	525
Total pelagic	96,658	89,806	166,630	158,206	151,092	89,369	73,693	110,595	90,578	115,647
Brown shrimps	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Cockles	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Cuttlefish	18	1	0	0	0	48	3	0	0	0
Edible crabs	13	10	13	14	43	10	11	11	12	40
Lobsters	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	3	5
Nephrops	143	161	161	120	260	904	1,006	893	722	1,195
Patagonian squid	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Queen scallops	2,280	392	77	114	148	931	167	35	72	113
Razor fish	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Scallops	32	71	136	25	20	51	120	247	63	47
Squid	144	141	84	135	55	773	586	328	249	149
Velvet crabs	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Whelks	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Other shellfish	79	35	9	13	12	75	16	17	19	27
Total shellfish	2,708	810	480	421	539	2,793	1,912	1,532	1,140	1,575
Total landings	112,558	105,356	175,296	168,851	160,417	112,192	90,397	127,089	107,269	133,221

(1) Main species are those where the total value landed into the UK or by UK vessels abroad was £2m or more in 2016.

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Table 1.1.d Quantity and value of landings by Scottish vessels abroad, by main species 1: 2012 to 2016

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Table 1.1.d Quantity and value of landings by Scottish vessels abroad, by main species ¹: 2012 to 2016