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Fishing Statistics - Gridded fisheries data within Scottish waters for Scottish fishing vessels under 12m overall length - annual averages 2018 to 2022

Owners or masters of Scottish fishing vessels under 12m overall length must declare a latitude and longitude position (DD MM) on each fishing day indicating where the majority of the catch was taken. This data has been recorded since 2016 for vessels submitting Fish 1 forms and from 2018 onwards for vessels submitting paper logbooks.


This dataset aggregates the positions declared between 2018 and 2022, along with the associated catch weight and values, into C-Squares of 0.05 x 0.05 decimal degrees. The data is grouped into sectors of

"Pots and traps" - e.g. creels for crabs, lobsters, or Nephrops; whelk pots; or wrasse traps

"Bottom trawls" - e.g. bottom trawls for Nephrops, squid, or demersal fish

"Dredges" - e.g. dredging for bivalve molluscs such as scallops and surf clams

"Rod and lines"- e.g. handlines or jigging for mackerel; set lines for demersal fish

"Set nets" - e.g. set nets for demersal fish or crustaceans

"Diving or hand gathering" - e.g. scallop diving, but excluding the razor fish trial

"Other" - e.g. anything else


This data includes catches of razor clams up until 1st February 2018. Since this date, only vessels involved in the scientific trial can land razor clams. Data will be published on these vessels once the trial is complete.

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Date ()
2024-05-13
Identifier

Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12436_resource

 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate


Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

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Edinburgh

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EH6 6QQ

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United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate


Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

,

Edinburgh

,

EH6 6QQ

,

United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate


Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

,

Edinburgh

,

EH6 6QQ

,

United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
 

Scottish Government

-

Marine Directorate


Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay

,

Edinburgh

,

EH6 6QQ

,

United Kingdom

+44 (0)300 244 4000
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown
Keywords
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary
  • Fish and shellfish catch statistics

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
  • Statistical units

Use constraints

Data is derived from positions self-declared by fishers. These positions have not been verified by other sources. The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from the Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Access constraints
otherRestrictions
Other constraints

no limitations to public access

Distance
1852  http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/gmxUom.xml#m
Metadata language
eng (en)
Topic category
  • Economy
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Geographic identifier

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Date ()
2010-01-01

Begin date
2017-01-01
End date
2021-12-31
Reference system identifier

OGP

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urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326

Distribution format
  • ESRI Shapefile

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    1.0

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OnLine resource
fishing_under12_data (

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-capabilities

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OnLine resource
fishing_under12_data (

OGC:WFS

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OnLine resource
fishing_under12_data (

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

)

Download data as zipped shapefile on WGS84 datum

Scope
dataset
Statement

Catch and sales data linked to the daily position was extracted from the Marine Scotland Compass database for the period 2018 to 2022 within a bounding box of -10W to 0E and 54N to 62N. Approximately 12% of total voyages either had no position or was outside of the bounding box. The positions were allocated to C-Squares of 0.05 x 0.05 decimal degrees. C-Squares that are entirely on land or outwith Scottish waters were excluded. The remaining data was aggregated. Where there are less than five vessels in a c-square, the values are redacted and coded as -999. Older Fish1 forms use a free text box for positions and positions may be of poorer quality.

Metadata

File identifier
Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12436
Metadata language
eng (en)
Resource Type
dataset
Date stamp
2024-05-13
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.2

 

Scottish Government

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Marine Directorate


+44 (0)300 244 4000
 
 

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