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.

Supporting documents

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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Table 17. Tonnage and value of landings by foreign vessels into the rest of the UK by main species 2015 to 2019

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