Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2003

Table 2. Active Scottish based vessels, tonnage and power by overall length group and age group, 31st December 2003

	10 metres & under	>10 <15 metres	15<20 metres	20<25 metres	25<30 metres	30<35 metres	35 metres & over	Total	Over 10 metres
Number
Under 10 years	206	22	27	30	20	5	25	335	129
10<15	258	43	10	14	11	2	4	342	84
15<20	233	48	23	33	17	1	4	359	126
20<25	220	38	33	17	6	0	13	327	107
25<30	145	29	29	16	6	2	3	230	85
30<35	91	45	56	6	4	3	2	207	116
35 years & over	146	33	44	6	3	3	6	241	95
Not known	333	16	3	1	0	0	1	354	21
Total	1632	274	225	123	67	16	58	2395	763
Average age (years)	16.4	21.7	25.2	17.3	16.0	20.9	15.3	17.8	21.0
Total tonnage
Under 10 years	1,058	500	3,766	6,476	7,192	2,707	37,870	59,569	58,511
10<15	919	634	871	2,457	2,837	587	2,155	10,460	9,541
15<20	763	834	2,452	5,400	3,992	375	1,726	15,542	14,779
20<25	830	611	2,762	2,312	1,118	0	7,462	15,095	14,265
25<30	583	381	1,800	2,121	1,042	517	1,358	7,803	7,219
30<35	368	636	2,837	668	711	544	723	6,487	6,119
35 years & over	472	477	1,775	623	407	645	2,154	6,553	6,081
Not known	1,016	244	298	57	0	0	2,194	3,810	2,793
Total	6,008	4,318	16,562	20,115	17,299	5,375	55,642	125,317	119,308
Average tonnage	4	16	74	164	258	336	959	52	156
Total power (kW)
Under 10 years	18,960	4,570	10,709	17,750	15,156	6,408	93,772	167,325	148,365
10<15	13,969	7,512	3,068	6,334	6,059	1,631	5,992	44,565	30,596
15<20	10,308	6,582	6,964	13,626	9,311	855	5,793	53,439	43,131
20<25	10,784	4,504	10,039	6,844	3,025	0	22,704	57,900	47,116
25<30	6,306	2,978	6,731	6,265	3,004	1,297	3,454	30,036	23,729
30<35	3,280	4,504	12,353	1,937	1,709	1,848	2,314	27,944	24,665
35 years & over	3,818	3,079	8,091	1,807	1,329	1,176	3,673	22,973	19,155
Not known	15,222	2,775	824	328	0	0	5,060	24,209	8,987
Total	82,646	36,504	58,779	54,891	39,593	13,215	142,762	428,391	345,744
Average power	51	133	261	446	591	826	2461	179	453

Since the unit of tonnage measurement has been changing from registered tonnage to gross tonnage, incrementally throughout the fleet, year-on-year comparisons may be unreliable

Chart 3. Scottish based vessels by type, 1987 to 2003

Chart 3. Scottish based vessels by type, 1987 to 2003

From the beginning of 1993 there was a requirement that all 10 metres and under vessels should be licensed.

Chart 4. Scottish based vessels, average age, 1989 to 2003

Chart 4. Scottish based vessels, average age, 1989 to 2003

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