Scottish Shellfish Farm Production Survey 2015
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 166 full-time and 178 part-time and casual workers during 2015. The number of full-time staff decreased by nine and the number of part-time and casual employees increased by eight compared with 2014. The regional breakdown of employment is given in Table 7. The number of people employed by the shellfish farming industry in Scotland decreased by 0.3% from the 2014 total of 345.
Table 7: Regional employment 2015.
| Businesses |
Staff |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region |
Full-time Male |
Full-time Female |
Part-time Male |
Part-time Female |
Casual Male |
Casual Female |
Total |
|
| Highland |
49 |
33 |
7 |
26 |
7 |
9 |
0 |
82 |
| Orkney |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Shetland |
26 |
48 |
2 |
24 |
11 |
17 |
2 |
104 |
| Strathclyde |
49 |
47 |
9 |
33 |
10 |
21 |
5 |
125 |
| Western Isles |
17 |
17 |
3 |
7 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
32 |
| Scotland |
144 |
145 |
21 |
90 |
28 |
53 |
7 |
344 |
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