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.

Supporting documents

Table 1.1.h Quantity and value of landings by other UK vessels into the whole of the UK, by main species ¹: 2012 to 2016

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
	Quantity (tonnes)					Value (£'000)
Other UK vessels
Landings into the UK
Bass	781	747	1,005	645	530	5,390	5,399	7,331	5,352	4,811
Black scabbardfish	-	0	0	-	0	-	0	0	-	0
Blue Ling	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Brill	292	269	266	302	360	1,539	1,535	1,545	1,598	1,943
Cod	2,100	2,496	3,283	4,073	7,882	4,024	5,041	6,228	7,315	11,051
Haddock	3,461	4,208	5,055	5,105	5,093	3,785	4,947	7,461	6,970	6,577
Hake	1,066	2,499	3,838	4,203	5,229	2,161	6,736	9,537	10,738	12,658
Lemon sole	1,903	1,783	1,720	1,191	1,258	5,288	5,633	5,917	5,034	5,458
Ling	414	728	1,129	670	903	527	989	1,309	845	1,193
Megrims	1,212	1,774	1,359	1,335	1,269	3,161	3,800	3,528	3,483	3,626
Monkfish	3,824	4,081	4,295	4,509	4,962	11,427	12,164	11,168	11,183	14,396
Plaice	2,460	2,430	2,283	1,997	2,677	2,947	2,723	2,597	2,466	3,326
Pollack	1,345	1,249	1,632	1,184	1,600	2,977	2,668	2,859	2,297	3,558
Red mullet	71	54	88	74	84	475	405	659	249	408
Saithe	1,057	2,417	3,072	2,009	2,275	1,046	2,236	2,970	1,738	2,479
Skates and rays	2,098	2,075	1,830	1,814	1,871	3,096	2,785	2,205	2,359	2,469
Sole	1,700	1,744	1,754	1,373	1,449	13,689	12,693	12,250	10,216	13,173
Turbot	394	385	450	467	475	3,232	3,282	3,703	3,646	4,166
Whiting	1,837	2,137	2,415	2,683	2,934	1,380	1,606	2,139	2,431	2,717
Wrasses	17	17	15	11	13	7	6	5	40	60
Other demersal	4,268	4,190	4,022	4,219	4,696	4,319	3,781	3,658	3,653	4,351
Total demersal	30,299	35,284	39,512	37,864	45,561	70,472	78,428	87,069	81,613	98,421
Blue whiting	117	0	-	-	0	32	0	-	-	0
Herring	6,351	8,608	7,049	6,487	7,361	2,885	2,713	1,989	2,048	3,617
Horse mackerel	7,638	1,873	2,293	2,196	856	2,131	519	703	802	318
Mackerel	5,827	4,014	5,633	7,475	7,779	5,632	3,896	5,136	5,071	6,680
Pilchards	4,257	3,701	3,418	4,174	7,983	1,085	976	807	1,586	2,592
Other pelagic	4,999	3,846	4,127	2,724	3,138	1,056	768	1,748	511	787
Total pelagic	29,190	22,044	22,520	23,057	27,117	12,821	8,872	10,383	10,018	13,207
Brown shrimps	927	860	602	325	806	2,321	2,359	1,358	806	2,960
Cockles	2,227	10,109	10,191	11,169	5,010	1,484	5,264	7,877	5,692	3,526
Cuttlefish	5,101	3,497	3,012	5,730	4,615	10,409	6,212	6,388	10,077	12,676
Edible crabs	16,479	16,904	19,254	16,766	18,750	20,651	22,101	25,519	22,133	26,325
Lobsters	2,015	1,941	2,158	2,053	2,116	19,324	19,372	21,019	21,151	25,807
Nephrops	11,451	9,963	10,012	9,328	9,949	28,884	22,346	24,466	21,616	25,021
Patagonian squid	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Queen scallops	6,779	8,016	3,714	3,486	2,209	2,615	3,563	1,912	2,146	1,811
Razor fish	84	57	8	44	98	236	159	40	191	490
Scallops	17,213	13,457	11,664	12,286	12,660	28,533	22,440	20,677	24,089	29,026
Squid	371	608	718	559	323	2,006	2,694	2,972	2,299	1,687
Velvet crabs	340	222	240	264	263	525	373	422	412	451
Whelks	16,057	19,155	18,735	19,463	20,538	10,906	13,115	15,364	17,410	20,911
Other shellfish	10,725	3,120	1,706	2,334	2,737	4,334	2,478	2,322	3,303	2,713
Total shellfish	89,768	87,911	82,013	83,807	80,074	132,229	122,477	130,337	131,324	153,406
Total landings	149,256	145,238	144,045	144,728	152,752	215,522	209,778	227,789	222,955	265,034

(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.h Quantity and value of landings by other UK vessels into the whole of the UK, by main species ¹: 2012 to 2016