Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2012

A detailed overview of landings of sea fish; the Scottish fishing fleet; and the number of sea fishermen employed.


Table 1.1.r Quantity and value of landings by foreign vessels into the whole of the UK, by main species 1,3: 2008 to 2012
Quantity (tonnes) Value (£'000) 2
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Foreign vessels
Landings into the UK
Bass 20 18 12 21 16 113 125 90 158 123
Black scabbardfish 3,139 3,100 2,692 2,096 1,963 3,822 3,573 5,602 4,927 3,957
Blue ling 2,517 2,906 3,027 1,750 1,497 2,453 1,784 3,772 2,235 1,866
Brill 82 80 91 93 81 381 459 554 588 424
Cod 6,639 6,551 5,947 1,427 1,651 7,168 11,804 7,278 2,710 3,253
Greenland halibut 366 833 633 369 127 565 1,577 1,724 1,137 316
Haddock 2,149 1,468 1,159 715 439 1,132 1,645 1,024 903 487
Hake 4,212 5,117 5,365 6,170 5,518 6,965 10,275 9,239 10,190 12,652
Lemon sole 190 122 163 257 294 573 338 679 1,033 744
Ling 1,453 1,238 1,057 1,118 1,088 1,721 1,426 1,398 1,631 1,762
Megrims 572 574 586 527 680 1,577 1,400 1,380 1,447 1,281
Monkfish 2,272 2,497 1,974 2,046 1,930 5,718 7,863 6,625 6,190 6,345
Plaice 536 471 780 1,032 787 625 549 1,274 1,465 925
Pollack 37 17 22 24 31 56 39 55 57 67
Red mullet 48 33 25 112 49 212 138 101 480 311
Redfish 435 762 769 232 262 402 733 1,036 327 385
Saithe 5,768 5,430 2,952 4,909 5,457 2,402 3,785 2,680 5,121 6,033
Sole 640 625 744 923 954 4,919 5,283 7,493 9,362 8,823
Turbot 68 73 97 108 127 495 593 903 971 859
Whiting 338 120 166 269 212 339 99 147 234 206
Witches 91 115 90 69 89 148 176 157 124 121
Other demersal 6,333 6,307 5,718 4,880 4,085 5,568 6,252 6,154 5,374 4,673
Total demersal 37,906 38,458 34,068 29,146 27,336 47,354 59,915 59,364 56,666 55,613
Blue whiting 43,949 17,250 26,203 2,091 18,093 5,715 3,092 6,300 1,154 5,743
Herring 19,482 10,325 4,837 8,315 24,899 5,089 3,247 1,578 4,552 14,641
Horse mackerel 196 7,139 2,438 2,118 710 75 2,474 1,188 1,383 556
Mackerel 20,459 21,912 39,302 23,988 21,402 18,735 18,053 32,760 33,366 16,796
Pilchards - - - - - - - - - -
Sardinelle aurita - - - - - - - - - -
Other pelagic 3,589 3,925 2,628 2 2,074 1,465 705 644 1 1,453
Total pelagic 87,675 60,551 75,406 36,514 67,177 31,078 27,569 42,470 40,456 39,189
Cuttlefish 55 12 25 52 114 81 20 127 144 245
Edible crabs 663 1,141 374 99 88 721 1,340 538 148 55
Lobsters 5 5 3 2 1 58 48 32 19 16
Nephrops 169 131 159 191 405 361 213 294 451 914
Patagonian squid - - - - - - - - - -
Pink shrimps - - - - - - - - - -
Queen scallops 14 5 2 53 1 5 1 1 19 0
Scallops 994 1,019 645 375 667 1,386 1,445 945 621 1,066
Squid 43 58 68 81 58 116 153 203 349 283
Velvet crabs 0 - - - 0 0 - - - 0
Whelks 26 36 92 13 32 10 15 49 5 13
Other shellfish 208 107 224 259 158 219 645 693 874 485
Total shellfish 2,176 2,513 1,591 1,125 1,525 2,957 3,881 2,881 2,630 3,077
Total landings 127,757 101,522 111,066 66,784 96,038 81,389 91,365 104,714 99,752 97,879

(1) Main species are those where the total value landed into the UK or by UK vessels abroad was £2m or more in 2010.

(2) The methodology used to calculate value of landings was changed by the introduction of the Register of Buyers and Sellers ( RBS) in September 2005 - see discussion in Annex 1 - Methodology for further details.

(3) Subsequent to the publication of the 2010 bulletin it was discovered that the value of Cockles landings in 2010 had been incorrectly overstated; when corrected the value failed to meet the £2m threshold and cockles are no longer separately distinguished in the tables. The figures have been included in Other shellfish.

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