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.m Quantity and value of landings by all 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)
UK vessels
Landings into the UK
Bass	819	774	1,006	647	532	5,611	5,622	7,339	5,368	4,825
Black scabbardfish	34	57	112	127	96	69	105	151	161	128
Blue Ling	48	217	305	383	287	70	307	327	467	329
Brill	301	279	278	316	375	1,579	1,586	1,589	1,648	1,997
Cod	12,704	13,034	13,998	15,367	20,749	24,948	25,836	27,836	29,517	38,049
Haddock	34,001	38,660	35,387	32,435	33,134	35,724	43,486	49,345	44,198	43,919
Hake	6,530	6,465	8,521	8,827	11,405	13,477	16,113	19,695	20,939	26,911
Lemon sole	2,479	2,521	2,346	1,845	2,014	6,747	7,649	7,899	7,293	8,292
Ling	4,060	4,019	4,440	4,111	4,920	5,645	5,465	5,380	5,256	7,032
Megrims	3,299	3,989	3,331	3,088	3,241	8,739	9,112	8,644	7,614	9,042
Monkfish	10,262	10,082	11,355	14,275	16,390	31,936	30,294	31,445	34,756	46,832
Plaice	3,417	4,138	3,552	3,544	4,710	3,726	4,045	3,571	3,558	5,341
Pollack	1,770	1,622	1,898	1,618	1,919	3,903	3,409	3,418	3,106	4,336
Red mullet	81	56	88	84	97	528	417	660	259	430
Saithe	10,952	12,885	11,143	9,921	9,963	11,293	10,955	10,180	8,542	10,325
Skates and rays	2,624	2,620	2,403	2,399	2,442	3,556	3,266	2,703	2,845	3,034
Sole	1,713	1,754	1,765	1,382	1,455	13,792	12,763	12,315	10,274	13,222
Turbot	451	446	516	540	546	3,649	3,745	4,195	4,194	4,707
Whiting	10,791	12,036	11,128	10,699	10,294	10,897	11,476	11,820	10,990	10,782
Wrasses	17	17	66	41	60	7	6	25	1,167	3,207
Other demersal	6,490	6,889	6,354	6,722	7,513	7,608	7,359	6,718	6,720	8,394
Total demersal	112,843	122,561	119,993	118,372	132,143	193,505	203,015	215,258	208,873	251,134
Blue whiting	6,418	8,165	9,687	12,150	11,908	1,764	1,818	1,266	1,994	2,352
Herring	38,195	37,531	38,348	38,564	40,454	18,597	13,624	10,529	13,390	25,281
Horse mackerel	8,886	2,461	3,056	2,890	862	2,812	853	1,148	1,286	321
Mackerel	67,800	78,228	126,172	94,837	103,874	63,809	70,099	104,081	60,578	88,837
Pilchards	4,257	3,701	3,418	4,174	7,983	1,085	976	807	1,586	2,592
Other pelagic	6,763	4,814	5,666	3,785	5,317	1,461	993	2,118	760	1,290
Total pelagic	132,319	134,901	186,348	156,399	170,398	89,528	88,363	119,949	79,594	120,674
Brown shrimps	927	860	602	325	806	2,336	2,361	1,359	810	2,965
Cockles	2,239	10,109	10,191	11,169	5,010	1,496	5,264	7,877	5,692	3,526
Cuttlefish	5,261	3,651	3,068	6,017	5,027	10,684	6,487	6,498	10,619	14,041
Edible crabs	25,960	26,425	29,851	26,672	29,809	31,986	33,892	39,142	34,500	41,494
Lobsters	3,145	2,966	3,372	3,099	3,263	31,073	29,919	33,478	32,193	39,538
Nephrops	32,595	28,289	30,349	25,721	30,735	110,471	85,964	98,545	81,930	100,533
Patagonian squid	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Queen scallops	19,297	17,780	10,591	12,458	10,466	7,611	8,430	5,093	7,153	8,142
Razor fish	903	916	430	364	472	2,569	3,144	1,599	1,662	2,340
Scallops	34,331	30,963	27,971	28,303	27,980	59,919	54,208	53,222	57,113	65,959
Squid	1,787	1,788	2,888	1,813	2,012	6,368	6,970	9,197	6,423	8,228
Velvet crabs	2,378	1,795	1,898	1,743	1,866	5,399	4,356	4,552	4,157	4,887
Whelks	16,444	20,042	19,795	20,865	22,664	11,148	13,747	16,203	18,610	22,867
Other shellfish	11,271	3,820	2,123	2,614	3,019	4,992	3,238	2,814	3,711	3,148
Total shellfish	156,537	149,404	143,129	141,164	143,128	286,051	257,981	279,578	264,574	317,668
Total landings	401,699	406,866	449,469	415,935	445,669	569,084	549,358	614,785	553,040	689,476

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

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