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 17. Tonnage and value of landings by foreign 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 13 7 4 2 4 66 51 33 17 33
Blue ling - - - - - - - - - -
Brill 58 61 47 39 47 292 300 243 179 294
Cod 126 85 70 36 49 190 162 136 82 116
Gurnards 209 112 96 130 103 125 69 67 100 93
Haddock 103 78 88 86 150 123 82 103 49 280
Hake 8 11 101 18 39 10 15 172 19 52
Lemon sole 230 191 155 153 131 863 625 471 264 306
Ling 24 31 13 8 6 39 44 19 7 2
Megrims 181 215 239 226 310 357 365 408 283 308
Monkfish 481 594 749 487 384 1,306 1,493 1,769 324 716
Plaice 870 460 278 270 393 880 525 369 426 724
Pollack 20 29 10 10 6 41 59 23 2 7
Saithe 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0
Skates and rays 719 569 510 499 856 1,070 917 735 207 753
Sole 691 616 504 539 1,135 5,312 5,188 4,751 4,825 12,212
Turbot 70 71 54 45 48 512 540 416 308 375
Whiting 169 217 82 81 162 113 121 58 18 106
Wrasses 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
Other demersal 610 370 318 338 417 546 394 316 379 358
Total demersal 4,584 3,719 3,320 2,968 4,239 11,847 10,952 10,087 7,490 16,738
Blue whiting - - - 161 238 - - - 0 45
Herring 1,517 848 662 517 1,715 447 439 223 174 799
Horse mackerel 340 584 359 489 422 208 357 18 9 34
Mackerel 1,729 3,208 3,407 2,426 1,549 1,466 2,263 1,996 2,182 1,785
Pilchards 0 0 - 1 0 0 0 - 1 0
Other pelagic 4 2 - 0 10 1 12 - 0 0
Total pelagic 3,590 4,641 4,428 3,595 3,934 2,123 3,072 2,238 2,366 2,663
Cockles - - - - - - - - - -
Cuttlefish 167 139 206 237 278 260 385 626 730 715
Edible crabs 61 58 51 39 34 32 31 42 24 32
Lobsters 0 0 0 2 4 3 5 2 25 45
Nephrops 156 135 53 70 261 320 280 124 170 663
Queen scallops 7 - - - - 5 - - - -
Razor fish - - - 1 4 - - - 0 0
Scallops 742 962 814 1,034 861 1,405 1,918 1,920 2,413 1,791
Squid 66 15 29 37 53 77 68 88 170 232
Velvet crabs - - - - - - - - - -
Whelks 9 9 7 11 52 5 5 6 13 66
Other shellfish 28 20 41 34 58 14 19 22 9 29
Total shellfish 1,237 1,337 1,200 1,465 1,605 2,122 2,710 2,828 3,555 3,574
Total landings 9,412 9,698 8,949 8,028 9,778 16,092 16,734 15,153 13,412 22,974

(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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