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Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2015

Published: 29 September 2016
ISBN: 9781786524300

Details of landings of sea fish, the Scottish fishing fleet and the number of sea fishermen employed.

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Sea fisheries statistics

Table 1.7 Quantity and value of all landings into Scotland: all Scottish ports by main species ¹: 2011 to 2015

	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
	Quantity (tonnes)					Value (£'000)
Black scabbardfish	2,132	1,998	2,353	2,974	2,579	5,017	4,026	4,510	4,952	3,472
Blue ling	1,826	1,545	1,850	2,288	1,478	2,338	1,936	2,437	3,275	1,798
Bluemouth	130	121	107	124	100	288	168	166	223	173
Catfish	226	260	263	293	366	418	469	464	498	511
Cod	11,220	11,297	12,216	13,487	15,236	24,621	22,195	23,992	27,083	29,395
Common mora	21	20	37	44	43	3	12	45	45	46
Conger eels	78	64	42	40	45	66	58	29	31	33
Cuckoo ray	215	188	163	192	219	184	142	119	126	136
Dogfish other	15	18	24	68	112	14	6	8	10	28
Forkbeard	485	586	613	627	549	641	792	1,060	1,149	923
Greenland halibut	401	194	660	600	640	1,280	490	1,596	1,495	1,709
Grey gurnards	29	161	165	172	403	16	67	62	68	149
Gurnard and latchet	143	147	99	31	48	110	113	74	11	32
Haddock	25,736	31,075	37,112	35,807	31,828	32,044	32,489	41,380	49,613	43,367
Hake	12,184	11,184	10,063	14,594	14,484	21,374	24,805	25,327	35,479	35,846
Halibut	113	69	48	44	48	973	655	473	406	377
John dory	34	37	39	30	22	167	151	177	166	133
Lemon sole	564	527	695	695	699	1,614	1,383	1,917	2,152	2,399
Lesser spotted dog	-	-	-	-	57	-	-	-	-	0
Ling	4,861	4,757	4,908	5,545	5,492	7,197	6,927	6,727	7,079	7,343
Megrim	2,445	2,275	2,439	2,229	2,038	7,969	6,138	5,875	5,740	4,923
Monkfish	9,385	7,554	7,513	8,632	11,410	32,042	24,839	22,136	24,853	27,842
Plaice	775	945	1,696	1,404	1,720	628	781	1,321	1,094	1,219
Pollack	485	460	418	405	561	1,124	981	823	782	1,013
Portuguese dogfish	122	332	139	98	53	159	368	101	219	24
Rabbit fish	278	268	237	180	133	76	57	102	105	70
Red gurnards	191	142	137	157	186	84	55	88	74	78
Redfishes	350	383	846	615	250	525	562	1,222	833	348
Roundnose grenadier	843	743	745	593	335	1,059	946	817	617	358
Saithe	17,392	16,265	19,502	17,374	18,688	18,264	17,178	16,867	16,887	16,867
Sandy ray	0	4	22	30	40	1	4	23	36	49
Skates and rays	229	194	115	147	56	209	150	84	121	61
Spotted ray	94	89	133	145	177	112	89	134	150	173
Thornback ray	90	110	183	201	208	152	120	182	201	185
Turbot	49	48	52	56	67	431	370	424	456	536
Tusk	429	305	459	356	357	379	274	365	282	281
Whiting	7,971	8,878	10,108	9,613	9,513	9,820	9,504	10,220	10,833	10,316
Witches	640	663	650	686	558	848	714	596	665	594
Wrasses	-	0	0	51	31	-	0	0	20	1,145
Other demersal	1,243	335	131	260	53	952	465	173	133	100
Total demersal	103,423	104,239	116,980	120,888	120,883	173,198	160,477	172,116	197,965	194,052
Blue whiting	3,415	24,394	9,411	9,699	12,150	1,750	7,475	2,115	1,267	1,994
Herring	32,501	56,078	36,596	39,458	34,048	16,849	29,722	13,938	10,960	12,076
Horse mackerel	3,332	1,605	843	1,101	711	2,104	900	515	724	485
Mackerel	112,262	83,822	95,876	149,325	97,973	133,598	74,830	85,692	119,135	61,932
Sprats	507	1,759	968	1,540	1,060	113	405	225	370	249
Other pelagic	4	2,079	352	0	0	2	1,453	110	0	0
Total pelagic	152,021	169,737	144,047	201,122	145,943	154,417	114,786	102,595	132,457	76,737
Clams	63	85	51	12	32	102	147	87	19	80
Edible crabs	11,981	10,871	10,909	12,375	11,119	14,394	13,193	13,809	16,198	14,194
Green crabs	239	303	272	225	194	156	195	175	151	122
Lobsters	1,240	1,129	1,029	1,220	1,046	13,174	11,760	10,641	12,555	11,054
Nephrops	24,357	21,860	17,894	20,182	16,069	86,749	82,191	61,670	73,126	59,209
Periwinkles	54	39	62	51	36	110	89	121	127	81
Queen scallops	9,357	7,540	5,368	3,123	3,361	3,775	3,109	3,051	1,467	1,883
Razor fish	725	903	915	429	350	1,982	2,567	3,139	1,597	1,616
Red crabs	224	99	14	91	176	882	464	32	396	509
Scallops	7,799	10,451	12,456	10,632	10,719	15,657	20,657	23,406	22,131	22,808
Squid	2,182	1,422	1,185	2,190	1,293	8,545	4,366	4,253	6,274	4,242
Velvet crabs	2,198	2,041	1,577	1,659	1,487	5,820	4,885	3,992	4,132	3,770
Whelks	239	354	677	862	1,128	138	221	483	683	937
Other shellfish	135	122	310	129	17	269	250	376	200	121
Total shellfish	60,792	57,218	52,718	53,179	47,026	151,754	144,096	125,236	139,055	120,627
Total landings	316,237	331,194	313,745	375,189	313,852	479,369	419,359	399,948	469,477	391,416

(1) Main species are those where the quantity landed into Scottish districts was 20 tonnes or over in 2015.

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