Scottish shellfish farm production survey 2017
This report is based on the returns of an annual survey questionnaire sent to all active authorised shellfish farming businesses in Scotland.
Scottish Marine Regions
The Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 introduces integrated management of Scotland's seas. The creation of a National Marine Plan, as required by the Act, sets the wider context for planning within Scotland including what should be considered when creating regional marine plans. Eleven Scottish Marine Regions have been created under the Act ( see Appendix 2 map) which cover sea areas extending out to 12 nautical miles.
To support the development of Regional Marine Plans by Regional Marine Planning Partnerships, tonnages/shell numbers and financial values of annual shellfish production for mussels and Pacific oysters have been calculated for the regions defined under the Act. These regional data are presented in Appendix 2.
In order to maintain commercial confidentiality figures for the West Highlands, Moray Firth and the North Coast have been merged for mussel production and the West Highlands and the North Coast for Pacific oyster. Other shellfish species including Native oyster (Argyll & Solway), scallop (Argyll & West Highlands) and queen scallop (Clyde & West Highlands) were produced, however these figures cannot be attributed to Scottish Marine Regions due to commercial confidentiality.
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