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.
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...
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...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 10 The requirement to display sensitive areas relating to the life history of commercially important fish species in British waters is well recognized. Sensitive areas have previously been described...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 9 No 3 This report describes surveys carried out in the Sound of Harris and Ayrshire coast, Clyde in late August and early September 2017. A combination of commercial electrofishing rig and towed video...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 21 This report presents the results of Scottish regional scallop stock assessments carried out by Marine Scotland Science (MSS) based on commercial catch-at-age data up to 2015 and survey data up to...
The Greater North Sea Netherlands Quarter 3 Beam Trawl Groundfish Survey Monitoring and Assessment Data resource contains both biological and sampling information. There are two sampling areas a “Full” data set, this includes rectangles that have...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 16 Monitoring and assessment of fish communities is essential to demonstrating the achievement of GES across the waters of the Northeast Atlantic covered by the MSFD. Coastal MSs bordering the...
The Greater North Sea International Quarter 1 Otter Trawl Groundfish Survey Monitoring and Assessment Data resource contains both biological and sampling information. There are two sampling areas a “Full” data set, this includes rectangles that...
The Celtic Sea Irish Quarter 4 Otter Trawl Groundfish Survey Monitoring and Assessment Data resource contains both biological and sampling information. There are two sampling areas a “Full” data set, this includes rectangles that have a poor...
The Greater North Sea International Quarter 3 Otter Trawl Groundfish Survey Monitoring and Assessment Data resource contains both biological and sampling information. There are two sampling areas a “Full” data set, this includes rectangles that...