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 1.7f Quantity and value of all landings into Scotland by district and main species ¹: 2012 to 2016

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
	Quantity (tonnes)					Value (£'000)
Peterhead
Black scabbardfish	-	12	1	89	58	-	18	1	134	82
Blue ling	4	16	28	115	275	7	20	25	161	243
Catfish	195	181	224	278	348	350	317	375	380	598
Cod	7,270	7,676	8,206	9,274	10,452	14,465	15,244	16,452	17,660	21,853
Cuckoo ray	5		4	21	21	4		3	14	15
Greenland halibut	28	153	194	185	134	58	378	477	591	389
Grey gurnards	31	37	41	118	91	10	15	16	45	33
Gurnard and latchet	29	10	6	8	23	24	5	2	2	11
Haddock	19,074	22,187	21,920	18,547	18,107	20,208	24,459	30,747	25,319	24,340
Hake	2,561	2,716	2,968	3,805	5,514	3,766	4,073	3,940	4,972	8,604
Halibut	37	26	21	29	70	352	259	216	237	498
Lemon sole	250	297	301	275	338	665	769	833	915	1,306
Ling	837	856	1,008	1,016	1,395	1,152	1,183	1,188	1,241	2,025
Megrims	358	453	431	388	458	978	1,098	1,076	909	1,277
Monkfish	1,044	1,035	1,392	2,200	3,269	3,288	3,206	3,962	5,491	9,535
Norway pout	76	35	61		26	5	4	5		3
Plaice	463	891	658	857	1,110	427	752	512	635	1,129
Pollack	238	199	248	389	297	509	390	470	681	704
Red gurnards	38	31	46	69	56	18	22	29	33	32
Redfish	152	339	235	63	29	212	513	339	113	50
Saithe	8,625	10,732	10,423	11,383	10,480	9,243	9,538	10,749	10,335	11,784
Thornback ray	10	21	27	31	32	11	17	23	22	32
Turbot	22	20	26	27	21	166	168	196	207	166
Tusk	29	36	34	22	29	30	29	27	18	22
Whiting	4,982	5,496	5,083	5,351	5,344	5,571	5,892	6,084	5,927	5,981
Witches	155	185	229	207	286	211	196	237	233	367
Other demersal	124	79	66	61	61	202	86	56	68	53
Total demersal	46,637	53,717	53,881	54,806	58,323	61,932	68,652	78,042	76,343	91,130
Blue whiting	17,874	8,904	9,699	12,150	11,908	5,709	2,001	1,267	1,994	2,352
Capelin	2,074	352	-	-	771	1,453	110	-	-	269
Herring	38,199	21,423	33,306	20,721	29,051	21,590	8,266	9,385	7,188	18,896
Horse mackerel	94	554	1,026	620	210	45	325	713	434	150
Mackerel	44,352	42,886	83,213	46,656	56,818	40,689	37,996	64,948	29,488	48,493
Other pelagic	70	0	-	-	-	18	0	-	-	-
Total pelagic	102,664	74,120	127,243	80,146	98,759	69,504	48,698	76,313	39,104	70,160
Edible crabs	221	196	215	184	280	251	241	268	227	353
Nephrops	1,674	903	1,572	888	1,081	7,273	3,741	6,699	3,454	5,119
Red crabs	94		75	83	63	442		378	291	200
Scallops	594	1,383	825	1,691	2,385	1,346	2,404	1,537	3,515	5,695
Squid	244	99	227	243	300	741	429	601	750	1,214
Velvet crabs	28	12	16	17	21	55	22	29	37	47
Other shellfish	11	12	17	19	25	95	97	161	170	208
Total shellfish	2,866	2,605	2,947	3,124	4,154	10,203	6,933	9,673	8,444	12,836
Total landings	152,167	130,441	184,071	138,076	161,235	141,639	124,283	164,028	123,891	174,127
Portree
Total demersal	10	11	34	20	17	11	11	14	329	1,223
Total pelagic	7	-	-	5	-	4	-	1	-	-
Edible crabs	630	623	827	534	489	757	750	1,017	666	631
Nephrops	1,032	1,093	968	1,099	1,301	6,297	6,164	5,771	6,614	6,892
Scallops	191	364	263	408	435	403	685	672	913	1,024
Velvet crabs	77	54	61	35	56	204	135	167	87	162
Other shellfish	44	103	61	37	37	305	292	302	194	205
Total shellfish	1,973	2,238	2,180	2,113	2,318	7,966	8,026	7,929	8,475	8,913
Total landings	1,991	2,254	2,214	2,138	2,335	7,980	8,038	7,943	8,804	10,136

(1) Main species are those where the quantity landed into Scottish districts was 20 tonnes or over in 2016.

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Table 1.7f Quantity and value of all landings into Scotland by district and main species 1: 2012 to 2016

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Table 1.7f Quantity and value of all landings into Scotland by district and main species ¹: 2012 to 2016