Marine Scotland manages quota for fish stocks and all inshore fisheries within the 12 nautical mile territorial water limit. It is also responsible for controlling the activities of fishing vessels and fishing effort (days spent at sea) in the North Sea, west of Scotland and Faroese waters.
In this section, citable data and reports relevant to fishing activities will be added.
This dataset contains all MSS trawl survey records from 38 species of elasmobranchs collected from stations on various MSS deepwater and monkfish (anglerfish) trawl surveys undertaken between 1996 and 2019 and covering a depth range spanning 300...
The Greater North Sea International Quarter 1 Otter Trawl Groundfish Survey Monitoring and Assessment Data update resource contains both biological and sampling information for 2017-2019. This is linked to the earlier release for this region and...
The Greater North Sea International Quarter 3 Otter Trawl Groundfish Survey Monitoring and Assessment Data update resource contains both biological and sampling information for 2017-2019. There are two sampling areas a “Full” data set, this...
The time series for net fishery and retained rod catch runs from 1952 to the most recently published season. The time series for released rod catch runs from 1994 to the most recently published season. The data are the summations of reports...
The catch form return time series runs from 1997 to the most recently published season. The annual return rate of forms by Reporting Area is provided as the numbers of returns expressed as a percentage of the total numbers of forms issued....
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 17 Marine Scotland requires a detailed understanding of fishing activity in Scottish Territorial Waters to inform marine spatial planning at both the national and regional level, and in relation to...
This zip file contains the datasets and associated code used in the paper "Langton, R., Stirling, D.A., Boulcott, P...
The catch form return time series runs from 1997 to the most recently published season. The annual return rate of forms by district is provided as the numbers of returns expressed as a % of the total numbers of forms issued. These data are...
The time series for net fishery and retained rod catch runs from 1952 to the most recently published season. The time series for released rod catch runs from 1994 to the most recently published season. The data are the summations of reports from...
VMS data for all UK registered commercial fishing vessels (=15m length) for the period 2009-2013 in ICES areas VIa, VIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IIa, VIId, and VIIa have been combined with landings information to develop GIS layers describing the spatial...