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Scottish Shellfish Farm Production Survey 2014
This report is based on the returns of an annual survey questionnaire sent to all active authorised shellfish farming businesses in Scotland.
// EMPLOYMENT
The industry employed 175 full-time and 170 part-time and casual workers during 2014. The number of full-time staff increased by 15 and the number of part-time and casual employees decreased by three compared with 2013. The regional breakdown of employment is given in Table 7. The number of people employed by the shellfish farming industry in Scotland increased by 4% from the 2013 total of 333.
TABLE 7 REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT 2014.
| Businesses | Staff | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region | Full-time Male | Full-time Female | Part-time Male | Part-time Female | Casual Male | Casual Female | Total | |
| Highland | 48 | 33 | 7 | 30 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 84 |
| Orkney | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Shetland | 26 | 61 | 3 | 21 | 7 | 19 | 3 | 114 |
| Strathclyde | 49 | 49 | 6 | 28 | 8 | 24 | 2 | 117 |
| Western Isles | 18 | 14 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 29 |
| Scotland | 144 | 157 | 18 | 88 | 24 | 53 | 5 | 345 |
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