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Publication - Statistics

Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2019

Published
24 September 2020
Directorate
Marine Directorate
Topic
Economy, Environment and climate change, Farming and rural
ISBN
9781800040793

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.

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Table 9. Tonnage and value of landings by rest of the UK vessels abroad by main species 2015 to 2019

Tonnage Value (£'000)
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Bass 40 20 16 3 3 338 206 112 18 17
Blue ling 11 0 1 0 0 14 1 0 0 0
Brill 107 115 84 71 74 471 609 455 384 250
Cod 12,716 13,185 16,525 9,758 6,924 19,127 20,511 29,199 17,780 4,940
Gurnards 525 679 543 272 435 599 787 599 285 450
Haddock 771 792 540 451 364 797 852 580 525 292
Hake 1,813 1,291 823 687 732 2,721 2,808 1,696 1,110 1,125
Lemon sole 336 363 316 190 250 1,149 1,095 846 448 487
Ling 298 178 169 135 115 373 240 213 151 116
Megrims 1,554 1,543 1,492 1,362 1,269 4,892 5,136 4,837 4,663 3,390
Monkfish 2,545 2,822 2,800 2,721 2,337 9,111 10,701 10,185 11,192 8,655
Plaice 12,216 12,439 9,107 4,844 4,085 15,547 17,443 12,205 8,396 6,723
Pollack 498 388 330 314 236 548 930 596 46 61
Saithe 2,745 2,125 1,659 2,485 2,273 2,798 2,133 1,637 2,039 1,777
Skates and rays 361 318 248 302 341 694 611 272 225 276
Sole 528 468 287 260 197 4,469 4,325 2,499 2,244 1,672
Turbot 213 270 252 220 208 1,573 1,954 1,645 1,384 1,177
Whiting 674 380 439 277 351 562 404 341 164 210
Wrasses 0 0 0 - - 0 0 0 - -
Other demersal 2,461 2,090 2,242 1,908 2,193 3,428 4,626 3,175 2,725 2,762
Total demersal 40,415 39,466 37,873 26,258 22,387 69,212 75,370 71,091 53,778 34,378
Blue whiting 1,269 1,374 3,442 6,369 6,930 282 185 733 2,100 3,458
Herring 28,531 19,342 17,593 27,990 17,463 9,593 9,174 8,075 16,916 9,392
Horse mackerel 4,656 4,683 4,951 5,800 7,631 2,278 1,770 2,528 3,908 5,729
Mackerel 40,631 21,372 38,112 32,200 25,822 24,222 13,220 33,505 32,213 25,055
Pilchards 133 1,408 466 21 77 35 538 169 13 56
Other pelagic 7 113 80 339 246 1 33 28 1,361 758
Total pelagic 75,229 48,292 64,643 72,719 58,169 36,410 24,920 45,037 56,511 44,448
Cockles - 41 0 - 0 - 55 0 - 0
Cuttlefish 40 36 34 22 46 103 121 39 25 88
Edible crabs 3,137 3,944 4,466 5,741 3,619 4,752 5,779 7,180 10,158 7,842
Lobsters 36 22 42 43 25 315 233 485 583 240
Nephrops 96 490 613 539 438 346 1,958 2,843 3,142 2,564
Queen scallops 16 30 34 122 0 12 20 28 149 0
Razor fish 36 39 - - 2 147 168 - - 0
Scallops 113 246 127 133 57 181 477 263 248 206
Squid 4,289 2,604 4,939 4,846 3,494 4,227 10,389 12,083 12,073 8,601
Velvet crabs 0 2 2 0 - 0 4 5 0 -
Whelks 67 135 362 181 190 52 126 444 243 209
Other shellfish 412 478 392 1,528 606 256 298 294 4,002 1,145
Total shellfish 8,242 8,066 11,010 13,155 8,477 10,392 19,629 23,662 30,622 20,896
Total landings 123,886 95,825 113,526 112,132 89,033 116,015 119,919 139,791 140,911 99,723

(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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