Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2019

National Statistics publication that provides data on the 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 2. Tonnage and value of landings by Scottish vessels into the rest of the UK by main species 2015 to 2019

Tonnage Value (£'000)
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Bass 2 2 2 0 0 13 13 18 2 1
Blue ling - - - - - - - - - -
Brill 8 10 9 5 6 27 32 36 27 26
Cod 21 27 16 19 10 31 47 31 42 21
Gurnards 61 89 107 58 39 39 45 56 32 21
Haddock 91 112 194 132 76 121 151 249 186 90
Hake 6 18 34 47 9 10 23 61 108 23
Lemon sole 29 23 29 9 4 100 70 112 41 12
Ling 7 6 4 2 3 7 6 4 2 3
Megrims 25 32 37 22 17 40 51 52 30 16
Monkfish 126 105 117 70 105 247 263 296 198 252
Plaice 85 84 71 24 20 64 71 67 34 21
Pollack 1 3 3 8 1 1 5 6 21 2
Saithe 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 3 3
Skates and rays 8 6 8 18 7 4 5 7 14 5
Sole 6 4 4 5 10 43 37 35 49 94
Turbot 19 25 21 12 17 102 149 150 93 119
Whiting 107 89 68 46 41 90 55 56 37 32
Wrasses - - - - - - - - - -
Other demersal 40 62 75 94 36 126 117 172 122 77
Total demersal 642 696 798 575 403 1,066 1,140 1,410 1,038 818
Blue whiting - - - - - - - - - -
Herring 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 - 0
Horse mackerel 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mackerel 0 2 2 1 0 0 2 1 1 0
Pilchards - - - - - - - - - -
Other pelagic 0 0 0 0 33 0 0 0 0 9
Total pelagic 0 3 2 1 33 0 3 1 1 9
Cockles - - - - - - - - - -
Cuttlefish 286 411 608 62 128 541 1,364 2,104 259 254
Edible crabs 250 253 358 457 929 243 332 601 1,052 2,010
Lobsters 4 8 6 2 4 44 94 73 40 72
Nephrops 1,244 2,021 1,582 1,014 1,472 3,755 6,225 5,062 3,204 4,992
Queen scallops 5,659 4,507 2,446 602 589 3,160 3,297 2,110 696 724
Razor fish 0 - - - - 1 - - - -
Scallops 5,907 3,945 7,283 8,239 9,001 11,483 9,171 17,633 19,204 20,192
Squid 28 54 66 14 16 100 263 262 76 62
Velvet crabs 0 0 - - - 0 0 - - -
Whelks 317 262 301 351 276 299 274 340 487 304
Other shellfish 2 11 14 2 3 7 11 16 4 6
Total shellfish 13,700 11,473 12,665 10,743 12,419 19,633 21,032 28,201 25,021 28,615
Total landings 14,342 12,172 13,465 11,319 12,855 20,700 22,174 29,612 26,061 29,443

(1) Main species are those where the total value landed into the UK or by UK vessels abroad was £2m or more in 2019

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