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Publication - Progress report

Wild Wrasse Fishery – 2021/22 Report

Published
8 July 2024
From
Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, +1 more … Director of Marine
Directorate
Marine Directorate
Topic
Marine and fisheries
ISBN
9781836014805

This report covers the Scottish wild wrasse fishery data collected in 2021 and 2022.

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Appendix 1

Table A1.1: Total landings (tonnes) by ICES statistical rectangle reported for all wrasse species from FISH1 and paper logs for the years 2017-2022. ICES statistical rectangles with fewer than 5 vessels reporting are not reported in this table (*) but are included in the total for each year. Annual Wrasse landings (tonnes)
ICES Statistical Rectangle 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
39E4 * * 0 0 0 0
40E3 0 0 0 * 0 0
40E4 * * * 2.2231 * *
40E5 0 0 0 0 0 0
40E8 0 0 0 0 0 *
41E2 0 0 * 0 0 0
41E3 * * * * * 0
41E4 * * * * * *
41E5 0 0 0 0 * 0
41E7 * 0 0 0 0 0
42E2 * * * * 0 *
42E3 * * * * * *
42E4 * * 12.603 * 18.917 19.818
42E7 * 0 0 0 0 0
43E2 * * * * 4.006 *
43E3 8.965 11.435 10.461 10.206 3.992 7.541
43E4 5.803 1.490 * 1.009 * 1.505
43E5 0 0 * 0 * 0
44E2 * * 34.610 * 5.461 7.306
44E3 * * * 8.574 4.857 4.520
44E4 * * * 2.499 * *
44E5 0 0 * * * 0
44E6 * * * * * *
44E7 0 * 0 * 0 0
44E8 0 * * 0 0 0
44E9 0 * 0 0 0 0
45E3 * * * * * *
45E4 * * * * * *
45E5 0 0 0 * 0 0
46E4 0 0 0 0 0 *
46E6 0 * 2.049 3.686 * *
46E7 0 * 0 * * *
47E3 0 0 0 * 0 *
47E6 0 * * 3.245 * *
47E7 0 * 2.010 3.145 2.851 5.796
48E8 0 0 0 * * 0
48E9 0 0 0 * 0 0
49E8 0 0 0 0 * *
49E9 0 0 0 0 0 *
Total 40.137 51.030 87.750 71.734 68.011 78.571
Table A1.2: Number of wrasse species caught by fishers in the first 20 pots lifted during the 2021 and 2022 wrasse fishing seasons and either returned to the sea or retained. Reported through science return forms. Table 1 (main report) shows minimum and maximum landing sizes.
Species Ballan Corkwing Cuckoo Goldsinny Rock Cook Total
Returned (%) undersize 2021 1798 1239 412 3926 2453 9828
Returned (%) undersize 2022 1264 1688 256 2966 3119 9293
Returned (%) oversize 2021 1028 317 102 547 97 2091
Returned (%) oversize 2022 1387 223 40 36 17 1703
Returned (%) permitted 2021 501 910 384 3403 635 5833
Returned (%) permitted 2022 447 2221 604 2889 1224 7385
Retained (%) permitted 2021 13718 1641 241 2026 1257 18883
Retained (%) permitted 2022 7158 2108 166 1711 1131 12274
Total 2021 17045 4107 1139 9902 4442 36635
Total 2022 10256 6240 1066 7602 5491 30655
Table A1.3: Number and percentage of total wrasse (all species combined) reported landed by ICES statistical rectangle during the 2021 and 2022 seasons as reported by fishers (science return forms) and part of the derogation to fish for wrasse. ICES statistical rectangles with fewer than 5 vessels reporting are not reported in this table (*) but are included in the total for each year.
ICES statistical rectangle Number landed 2021 Percentage (%) 2021 Number landed 2022 Percentage (%) 2022
40E4 * * 0 0
41E4 * * * *
42E3 * * * *
42E4 198211 32.3 372540 49.9
43E2 54725 8.9 * *
43E3 52148 8.5 59001 7.9
43E4 * * 4391 0.6
44E2 39907 6.5 44983 6.0
44E3 92985 15.1 17694 2.4
44E4 * * * *
44E6 * * * *
44E7 0 0 * *
45E3 * * * *
46E6 * * * *
46E7 * * * *
47E6 * * * *
47E7 53465 8.7 80973 10.8
6a 940 0.2 0 0
Total 613993 100 746974 100
Table A1.4: Number and percentage of total wrasse reported (landed) by species during the 2021 and 2022 seasons as reported (via science return forms) as part of the derogation to fish for wrasse.
Species Number landed 2021 Percentage (%) 2021 Number landed 2022 Percentage (%) 2022
Ballan 360896 58.8 488267 65.4
Corkwing 73758 12.0 120051 16.1
Cuckoo 5879 1.0 6009 0.8
Goldsinny 71115 11.6 70233 9.4
Rock cook 52820 8.6 62414 8.4
Wrasse (undefined)* 49525 8.1 N/A N/A
Total 613993 100 746974 100

*In 2021, reporting at species level was not always possible. In 2022, that issue was addressed.

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