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.
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 12 No 4 A major problem faced in commercial crustacean fisheries, and the research and management of such fisheries, is the potential effect of discarding practices on survival and condition of non-...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 12 No 3 Scottish Government gained funding through the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) to provide opportunities for the fishing industry to engage and collaborate with the scientific...
These datasets provide fishing effort and landings data (tonnage and value) by ICES rectangles (geographic areas).
Marine Scotland uses FRV Scotia to undertake a deep-water trawl survey along the continental slope of the Rockall Trough. The broad aim of the survey is to collect fisheries-independent data on the fish populations of the deepwater slope west of...
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...