Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2023

All tables presented here and in previous publications are available for download from the Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics publications section of the Scottish Government website [10].

Spatial information on fish and shellfish caught by Scottish vessels is available on Marine Scotland interactive maps and Marine Scotland Data Publications.  Links to map layers and data are available from the fishing activity data and statistics page.  This also includes experimental gridded data from Scottish under-12 metre vessels based on daily latitude and longitude positions provided by fishers.

Additional landings which were previously excluded, due to missing or incorrect information on the source database, have been included in this publication. On 8 October 2024, the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) published unscheduled corrections to the UK Sea Fisheries Statistics from 2018 to 2022. The corrections made by MMO, to the rest of the UK data, have been included in this publication. Landings into Scotland and landings by Scottish vessels were unaffected by this correction as we had already incorporated manual corrections.

More information about the data and methodology used to produce the Scottish sea fisheries statistics publication is provided in a stand-alone technical manual. This also includes a glossary of terms. The technical manual can be found here: Scottish sea fisheries statistics: technical manual - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

[10] Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics Publications: Sea fisheries statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)