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.
These datasets provide fishing effort and landings data (tonnage and value) by ICES rectangles (geographic areas). Please note that the provisional statistics were published previous under this identifier, and remain available on request, although...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 12 No 10 This report describes a survey carried out in Largo Bay, Firth of Forth in 2020. The original work plan was interrupted due to Covid-19 but a survey of the area currently being fished was...
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-...
These data have been updated with 2020 data, available at [https://doi.org/10.7489/12375-1](https://doi.org/10.7489/12375-1). Please use this link to download the most up to date data. The catch form return time series runs from 1997 to the most...
These data have been updated with 2020 data - the updated data are available at [https://doi.org/10.7489/12374-1](https://doi.org/10.7489/12374-1). Please use this link to download the most accurate and up to date data. The time series for net...
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...