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 1.7j Quantity and value of all landings into Scotland: all Scottish ports by main species ¹: 2012 to 2016

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
	Quantity (tonnes)					Value (£'000)
Black scabbardfish	1,998	2,353	2,974	2,579	3,060	4,026	4,510	4,952	3,472	4,734
Blue ling	1,545	1,850	2,288	1,478	1,717	1,936	2,437	3,275	1,798	2,013
Bluemouth	121	107	124	100	93	168	166	223	173	193
Cardinal fish	10	5	3	4	24	12	7	4	4	40
Catfish	260	263	293	366	432	469	464	498	511	747
Cod	11,297	12,216	13,487	15,236	17,301	22,195	23,992	27,083	29,396	35,993
Common mora	20	37	44	43	39	12	45	45	46	56
Conger eels	64	42	40	45	37	58	29	31	33	26
Cuckoo ray	188	163	192	219	219	142	119	126	136	164
Forkbeard	586	613	627	549	587	792	1,060	1,149	923	1,005
Greenland halibut	194	660	600	640	666	490	1,596	1,495	1,709	1,653
Grey gurnards	161	165	172	403	364	67	62	68	149	138
Gurnard and latchet	147	99	31	48	54	113	74	11	32	26
Haddock	31,075	37,112	35,807	31,828	32,254	32,489	41,380	49,617	43,367	42,709
Hake	11,184	10,063	14,594	14,484	18,391	24,805	25,327	35,479	35,846	44,480
Halibut	69	48	44	48	130	655	473	406	377	833
Lemon sole	527	695	695	699	811	1,383	1,917	2,152	2,399	3,053
Lesser spotted dog	-	-	-	57	161	-	-	-	0	40
Ling	4,757	4,908	5,545	5,492	6,725	6,927	6,727	7,080	7,348	9,917
Megrims	2,275	2,439	2,229	2,038	2,347	6,138	5,875	5,743	4,923	6,457
Monkfish	7,554	7,513	8,632	11,410	14,254	24,839	22,136	24,853	27,842	40,299
Norway pout	76	35	61	-	26	5	4	5	-	3
Plaice	945	1,696	1,404	1,720	2,209	781	1,321	1,094	1,219	2,200
Pollack	460	418	405	561	443	981	823	782	1,013	1,039
Portuguese dogfish	332	139	98	53	157	368	101	219	24	58
Rabbit fish	268	237	180	133	115	57	102	105	70	65
Red gurnards	142	137	157	186	190	55	88	74	78	86
Redfishes	383	846	615	250	160	562	1,222	833	348	261
Roundnose grenadier	743	745	593	335	426	946	817	617	358	576
Saithe	16,265	19,502	17,374	18,688	17,302	17,178	16,867	16,887	16,867	18,692
Sandy ray	4	22	30	40	37	4	23	36	49	66
Skates and rays	194	115	147	56	54	150	84	121	61	60
Spotted ray	89	133	145	177	167	89	134	150	173	232
Thornback ray	110	183	201	208	248	120	182	201	185	255
Turbot	48	52	56	67	57	370	424	456	536	481
Tusk	305	459	356	357	346	274	365	282	281	278
Whiting	8,878	10,108	9,613	9,511	9,234	9,504	10,220	10,833	10,310	10,228
Witches	663	650	686	558	696	714	596	665	594	824
Wrasses	0	0	51	31	49	0	0	20	1,164	3,185
Other demersal	304	154	295	183	72	604	347	300	257	192
Total demersal	104,239	116,981	120,888	120,882	131,654	160,477	172,116	197,970	194,072	233,356
Blue whiting	24,394	9,411	9,699	12,150	11,908	7,475	2,115	1,267	1,994	2,352
Capelin	2,074	352	-	-	771	1,453	110	-	-	269
Herring	56,078	36,596	39,458	34,048	39,734	29,722	13,938	10,960	12,076	25,396
Horse mackerel	1,605	843	1,101	711	216	900	515	724	485	153
Mackerel	83,822	95,876	149,325	97,973	106,632	74,830	85,692	119,135	61,933	91,737
Sprats	1,759	968	1,540	1,060	2,179	405	225	370	249	502
Other pelagic	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Total pelagic	169,737	144,047	201,122	145,943	161,441	114,787	102,595	132,457	76,737	120,411
Clams	84	51	12	30	34	145	85	19	68	84
Edible crabs	10,871	10,909	12,375	11,120	12,142	13,193	13,809	16,198	14,195	17,163
Green crabs	303	272	225	194	164	195	175	151	123	124
Lobsters	1,129	1,029	1,220	1,049	1,143	11,760	10,641	12,564	11,078	13,690
Nephrops	21,860	17,894	20,182	16,069	19,961	82,191	61,670	73,126	59,218	72,544
Octopus	2	3	5	8	20	4	4	5	6	10
Periwinkles	39	62	51	36	38	89	121	127	81	77
Queen scallops	7,540	5,368	3,123	3,361	3,789	3,109	3,051	1,467	1,883	3,071
Razor fish	903	915	429	350	461	2,567	3,139	1,597	1,616	2,296
Red crabs	99	14	91	176	119	464	32	396	509	618
Scallops	10,457	12,456	10,644	10,721	12,368	20,674	23,406	22,158	22,812	30,131
Squid	1,422	1,185	2,190	1,293	1,697	4,366	4,253	6,273	4,242	6,501
Velvet crabs	2,041	1,577	1,662	1,493	1,606	4,885	3,992	4,142	3,782	4,446
Whelks	354	677	862	1,128	1,909	221	483	683	940	1,723
Other shellfish	121	308	125	11	17	248	374	195	127	135
Total shellfish	57,225	52,718	53,194	47,038	55,469	144,113	125,236	139,100	120,679	152,614
Total landings	331,201	313,746	375,205	313,862	348,563	419,377	399,948	469,528	391,488	506,381

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

Contact

Email: Valerie West

Phone: 0300 244 4000 – Central Enquiry Unit

The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG

There is a problem

Thanks for your feedback

Was this helpful?

Yes

Your comments

Your feedback helps us to improve this website. Do not give any personal information because we cannot reply to you directly.

Choose a reason for your feedback

Your comments

Your feedback helps us to improve this website. Do not give any personal information because we cannot reply to you directly.

Yes, but

Choose a reason for your feedback

Your comments

Your feedback helps us to improve this website. Do not give any personal information because we cannot reply to you directly.

Information

Table 1.7j Quantity and value of all landings into Scotland: all Scottish ports by main species 1: 2012 to 2016

Contact

There is a problem

Table 1.7j Quantity and value of all landings into Scotland: all Scottish ports by main species ¹: 2012 to 2016