Scottish sea fisheries statistics 2018

Tonnage and value of all landings of sea fish and shellfish by Scottish vessels, all landings into Scotland, the rest of the UK and abroad, and the size and structure of the Scottish fishing fleet and employment on Scottish vessels.


Table 17. Tonnage and value of landings by foreign vessels into the rest of the UK by main species 2014 to 2018

Tonnage Value (£'000)
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Bass 12 13 7 4 2 63 66 51 33 17
Black scabbardfish - - - - - - - - - -
Brill 50 58 61 47 39 206 292 300 243 173
Cod 142 126 85 70 34 190 190 162 136 79
Haddock 131 103 78 88 80 125 123 82 103 43
Hake 10 8 11 101 18 11 10 15 172 19
Lemon sole 335 230 191 155 152 684 863 625 471 259
Ling 69 24 31 13 8 66 39 44 19 7
Megrims 125 181 215 239 226 226 357 365 408 283
Monkfish 316 481 594 749 479 754 1,306 1,493 1,767 297
Plaice 722 870 460 278 265 534 880 525 369 417
Pollack 54 20 29 10 10 81 41 59 23 2
Saithe 1 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 1
Skates and rays 573 719 569 509 492 670 1,070 917 734 198
Sole 778 691 616 504 533 4,091 5,312 5,188 4,751 4,765
Turbot 67 70 71 54 43 392 512 540 414 292
Whiting 248 169 217 82 73 124 113 121 58 12
Witches 57 40 58 54 31 53 53 75 57 38
Wrasses 3 2 2 1 0 1 1 1 0 0
Other demersal 506 779 424 358 399 494 618 387 323 390
Total demersal 4,198 4,584 3,719 3,316 2,886 8,767 11,847 10,952 10,080 7,291
Blue whiting - - - - 161 - - - - 0
Herring 2,289 1,517 848 662 493 560 447 439 223 167
Horse mackerel 282 340 584 359 489 208 208 357 18 9
Mackerel 2,241 1,729 3,208 3,407 2,426 2,415 1,466 2,263 1,996 2,182
Pilchards - 0 0 - 1 - 0 0 - 1
Other pelagic 0 4 2 - 0 0 1 12 - 0
Total pelagic 4,812 3,590 4,641 4,428 3,571 3,183 2,123 3,072 2,238 2,360
Brown shrimps - - - - - - - - - -
Cockles - - - - - - - - - -
Cuttlefish 26 167 139 189 129 27 260 385 572 297
Edible crabs 61 61 58 51 37 24 32 31 42 20
Lobsters 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 2 5
Nephrops 145 156 135 53 33 302 320 280 124 81
Pink shrimps - - - - - - - - - -
Queen scallops - 7 - - - - 5 - - -
Razor fish - - - - - - - - - -
Scallops 1,149 742 962 814 928 1,937 1,405 1,918 1,920 2,167
Squid 20 66 15 28 15 27 77 68 82 29
Velvet crabs - - - - - - - - - -
Whelks 7 9 9 7 11 3 5 5 6 13
Other shellfish 13 28 20 41 31 5 14 19 22 5
Total shellfish 1,421 1,237 1,337 1,182 1,185 2,329 2,122 2,710 2,768 2,619
Total landings 10,432 9,412 9,698 8,926 7,642 14,279 16,092 16,734 15,085 12,270

(1) Main species are those where the total value landed into the UK or by UK vessels abroad was £2m or more in 2018

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