The column headers are:

District
Description: Salmon Fishery District identifier
Unit:
Type: categorical
Levels: 107
Note: Single Salmon Fishery District or geographically-coherent group of Salmon Fishery Districts. Salmon Fishery Districts are described in “Collecting the Marine Scotland Salmon and Sea Trout Fishery Statistics” {http://www.gov.scot/ISBN/9781805258438}. No rod catch has been reported from the Gour and Orkney Districts.

District ID
Description: Numerical Salmon Fishery District identifier
Unit:
Type: categorical
Levels: 107
Note: orders Salmon Fishery Disticts alphabetically. No rod catch has been reported from District IDs 48 (Gour) and 109 (Orkney).

Report order
Description: spatial ordering of Reporting Areas
Unit:
Type: categorical
Levels: 107
Note: orders Salmon Fishery Districts spatially, counter-clockwise from Tweed. No rod catch has been reported from the Districts with Report Order 66 (Gour) and 109 (Orkney).

Region
Description: Salmon Fishery Region
Unit:
Type: categorical
Levels: Clyde Coast, East, Moray Firth, North, North East, North West, Outer Hebrides, Shetland, Solway, West Coast
Note: See “Collecting the Marine Scotland Salmon and Sea Trout Fishery Statistics” {http://www.gov.scot/ISBN/9781805258438}

Method
Description: fishing method
Unit:
Type: categorical
Levels: Rod: Retained, Rod: Released
Note: Released rod caught fish have been reported since 1994

Year
Description: year of season fish were reported caught
Unit:
Type: discrete
Range: 1952 to 2022
Note:

Month
Description: month fish were reported to have been caught
Unit:
Type: discrete
Range: January to November
Note:

Month number
Description: number of month that fish were reported caught
Unit:
Type: discrete
Range: 1 to 11
Note:

Wild MSW number
Description: number of wild multi sea-winter salmon reported caught
Unit:
Type: continuous
Range: 0 to 4688
Note:

Wild MSW weight (kg)
Description: weight of wild multi sea- winter salmon reported caught
Unit: kg
Type: continuous
Range: 0 to 22866.5
Note:

Wild 1SW number
Description: number of wild one sea-winter salmon reported caught
Unit:
Type: continuous
Range: 0 to 2640
Note:

Wild 1SW weight (kg)
Description: weight of wild one sea-winter salmon reported caught
Unit:
Type: continuous
Range: 0 to 5843.2
Note:

**Sea trout number **
Description: number of sea trout reported caught
Unit:
Type: continuous
Range: 0 to 3005
Note: Categories used to report sea trout data have varied throughout the time series and are detailed in “Collecting the Marine Scotland Salmon and Sea Trout Fishery Statistics” {http://www.gov.scot/ISBN/9781805258438}

Sea trout weight (kg)
Description: weight of sea trout reported caught
Unit: kg
Type: continuous
Range: 0 to 3413.3
Note: Categories used to report sea trout data have varied throughout the time series and are detailed in “Collecting the Marine Scotland Salmon and Sea Trout Fishery Statistics” {http://www.gov.scot/ISBN/9781805258438}

Finnock number
Description: number of finnock reported caught
Unit:
Type: continuous
Range: 0 to 989
Note: Finnock (may also be known as whitling or herling) have been reported since 2004 and are not included in the sea trout figures

Finnock weight (kg)
Description: weight of finnock reported caught
Unit: kg
Type: continuous
Range: 0 to 448.6
Note: Finnock (may also be known as whitling or herling) have been reported since 2004 and are not included in the sea trout figures

**Farmed MSW number **
Description: number of farmed-origin multi sea-winter salmon reported caught
Unit:
Type: continuous
Range: 0 to 162
Note: Farmed-origin fish have been reported since 1994

Farmed MSW weight (kg)
Description: weight of farmed-origin multi sea-winter salmon reported caught
Unit: kg
Type: continuous
Range: 0 to 607.5
Note: Farmed-origin fish have been reported since 1994

Farmed 1SW number
Description: number of farmed-origin one sea-winter salmon reported caught
Unit:
Type: continuous
Range: 0 to 202
Note: Farmed-origin fish have been reported since 1994

Farmed 1SW weight (kg)
Description: weight of farmed-origin one sea-winter salmon reported caught
Unit: kg
Type: continuous
Range: 0 to 641.4
Note: Farmed-origin fish have been reported since 1994