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 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...
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...
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...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 6 No 13 The main aim of this work was to trial the use of Succorfish’s SC2 VMS tracking technology on vessels from the inshore scallop dredge fleet around Shetland and to evaluate its effectiveness as a...
Description of the state of the fish and shellfish stocks of commercial importance to the Scottish fishing fleet. TACs and quotas for each stock for 2016 are described, as well as the life history and biology of the species caught. Stock...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 6 No 15 The objective of the project was to determine spatial turnover rates of scallops at two spatial scales: (i) at the scale of individual fishing patches (tens to hundreds of metres), determining...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 9 This report presents summaries of historic and recent landings data and the results of stock assessments for brown crab, velvet crab and lobster, based on data collected between 2009 and 2012. A...
The MSS deepwater trawl survey is a time series from the continental slope of the Rockall Trough, NE Atlantic. The survey covers depths between 300-2067m. The survey began in 1998 and has taken place each year except 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2010....