03424ccc74e8c7e1c73484fb097b1e0d
English
dataset
Data/GIS Officer
Marine Management Organisation
Data/GIS Officer
dkm@marinemanagement.org.uk
pointOfContact
2016-04-14
MEDIN Discovery metadata standard
2.3.8
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4258
Fish Landings to United Kingdom Ports 2012
2015-03-31
publication
2013-10-31
creation
2013-10-31
revision
MMO1600101
Annual statistics for commercial fishing activity by UK registered fishing vessels for the year indicated. Previously this dataset was provided separately as Fish Landings to UK Ports (All Vessels) and Fish Landings to UK Ports (by Vessel Length) but from 2012 it is now a combined dataset.
Statistics are provided for the North East Atlantic (FAO Major Area 27) by port of landing by fishing gear and vessel length on:
Landings by live weight (tonnes),
Landings by value (pounds sterling),
Time spent fishing (days),
Number of vessels (this information may be omitted from published versions).
Gear types are shown at the level of the International Standard Statistical Classification of Fishing Gear (ISSCFG) and also aggregated into different groups to allow analysis at different levels.
Vessel lengths are aggregated as follows:
All Vessels (this is the sum total of all the vessel lengths),
Less than or equal to 10m,
More than 10m to 12m,
More than 12m to less than 15m,
More than or equal to 15m.
Data/GIS Officer
Marine Management Organisation
Data/GIS Officer
dkm@marinemanagement.org.uk
originator
Data/GIS Officer
Marine Management Organisation
Data/GIS Officer
dkm@marinemanagement.org.uk
custodian
annually
Geographic Information System
Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
Species distribution
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-01-06
revision
Fish and shellfish catch statistics
SeaDataNet P021 parameter discovery vocabulary
2009-11-16
revision
Fisihing Activity
CHARM III
2012-04-02
creation
Open Government Licence. Acknowledgement of Marine Management Organisation as source required.
otherRestrictions
No limitations on access, however copyright should be used at all times.
English
biota
Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas
2009-06-18
creation
Eastern Channel
Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas
2009-06-18
creation
Irish Sea
Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas
2009-06-18
creation
Southern North Sea
Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas
2009-06-18
creation
Northern North Sea
Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas
2009-06-18
creation
Minches & Western Scotland
Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas
2009-06-18
creation
Scottish Continental Shelf
Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas
2009-06-18
creation
Rockall Trough & Bank
Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas
2009-06-18
creation
Faroe-Shetland Channel
Charting Progress 2 Sea Areas
2009-06-18
creation
Atlantic North West Approaches
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea)
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Aegean Sea (The Archipelago) (Mediterranean Sea)
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Alboran Sea (Mediterranean Sea)
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Baltic Sea
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Bay of Biscay
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Black Sea
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Bristol Channel
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
English Channel
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Greenland Sea
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Gulf of Bothnia (Baltic Sea)
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea)
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea)
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Ionian Sea (Mediterranean Sea)
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Irish Sea and St. George's Channel
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea)
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern basin
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Mediterranean Sea - Western basin
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
North Atlantic Ocean
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
North Sea
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Norwegian Sea
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Sea of Marmara
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Strait of Gibraltar (Mediterranean Sea)
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Tyrrhenian Sea (Mediterranean Sea)
International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas
1954-01-01
creation
Celtic Sea
ICES Statistical Areas
2014-05-16
creation
IXb1
ICES Statistical Areas
2014-05-16
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ICES Statistical Areas
2014-05-16
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IXa
ICES Statistical Areas
2014-05-16
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ICES Statistical Areas
2014-05-16
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VIIIb
ICES Statistical Areas
2014-05-16
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VIIIe1
ICES Statistical Areas
2014-05-16
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VIIId1
ICES Statistical Areas
2014-05-16
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VIIId2
ICES Statistical Areas
2014-05-16
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VIIIa
ICES Statistical Areas
2014-05-16
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VIIj1
ICES Statistical Areas
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VIIh
ICES Statistical Areas
2014-05-16
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VIIf
ICES Statistical Areas
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VIIg
ICES Statistical Areas
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VIIk1
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VIIk2
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IVc
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VIIc2
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VIIb
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VIIa
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24
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25
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26
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IVb
ICES Statistical Areas
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28-2
ICES Statistical Areas
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28-1
ICES Statistical Areas
2014-05-16
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27
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IIIa
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VIb1
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VIb2
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VIa
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XIVa
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Marine Management Organisation
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dataset
Statistics on fishing effort and landings are calculated using data collected and processed by officials of the various Fisheries Administrations in the UK, namely the MMO, Marine Scotland, DARD, WAG and Departments in Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
The main legislation used to collect these data is:
(i) the EU fisheries legislation on keeping and submitting logbooks and providing landing declarations and sales notes, primarily Council Regulation (EC) No. 1224/2009 (the Control Regulation).
(ii) general powers under the Sea Fisheries (Conservation) Act 1967 under which Ministers granting a licence can require the master, owner or charterer of the vessel named in the licence to provide them with such statistical information as they may direct.
These powers were widened in the Sea Fish (Conservation) Act 1992 to cover other types of information and the form in which it is to be supplied. The method of data collection depends on the length of the vessel. Data collection for vessels over 10 metres in overall length: Data collected on fishing effort by over 10 metre vessels come primarily from the fishing logbook. Two additional sources are used to collect data on landings by over 10 metre vessels: landing declarations and sales notes. The fishing logbook captures data on fishing activity by individual vessels by trip, and for each day of activity within a trip. This includes details of the catch, by species, in terms of the presentation and quantity of fish retained on board. Information is also collected on the fishing gear used and the ICES division, rectangle and zone for the activity. Supply of logbook data is mandated by legislation for all vessels over 10 metres overall length in respect of catches of all species.
Logbook data for UK vessels must be submitted within 48 hours of landing to UK authorities; this includes landings into foreign ports. Landing declarations provide information on the weight and presentation of fish landed by species. As with logbooks, landing declarations must be submitted to authorities within 48 hours of completion of the landing. Sales notes are required in respect of first sales of fish and fishery products. Sales notes for first sales of fish must be submitted to UK Fisheries Administrations within 48 hours of sale by the registered buyer of the fish, except at designated auction centres where the registered seller has responsibility. Requirements to submit logbook and landing declaration data electronically are being phased in for UK vessels over 12 metres overall length; Additionally, from 1 January 2009 buyers and sellers with an annual turnover of first sale fish of more than 400,000 euro have been required to submit sales notes electronically; this threshold has been reduced to 200,000 euro from 1 January 2011.
A UK Electronic Reporting Systems (ERS) Hub has been set up to collect, process and store these data. For more information please see the Marine Management Organisation website at:
http://www.marinemanagement.org.uk/fisheries/monitoring/electronic.htm.
For vessels of overall length of 10 metres and below, there is no statutory requirement under either EU or national legislation for fishermen to declare their catches. Historically, information for this sector has been collected with the co-operation of the industry: it comprised log sheets and landing declarations voluntarily supplied by fishermen as well as sales notes and assessments of landings collected from market sources and by correspondents located in the ports. This collection of data has now been replaced after the introduction in September 2005 of a scheme of registration for buyers and sellers of first sale fish (see above). Sales notes are now used in addition to the voluntary information from fishermen.
During 2005 and 2006, UK Fisheries Administrations introduced a system of restrictive licensing for activity targeted at shellfish. As part of this system, new reporting requirements were introduced involving a requirement for fishermen fishing with under 10 metre vessels to complete diaries of their daily activity which needed to be submitted on a monthly basis. Summary information from these diaries is now in use in Northern Ireland but was discontinued in the rest of the UK at the end of February 2009.
Coverage:
Data collection for vessels over 10 metres overall length aims to achieve full coverage of activity by this sector of the fleet. For the sector 10 metres or under in overall length, landings are only reported where the fish are sold or data have been provided voluntarily, leading to reduced coverage. The reliability of the data collected is dependent on the information provided by fishermen. Inspectors at port offices carry out a mix of manual and automatic checks on the information provided by vessel operators. These include a check between logbook information and that given in the sales notes or observed as landed as well as checks against other sources of information (e.g. satellite position reports, information from aerial and at-sea surveillance and inspection activity carried out by UK enforcement officers). Despite legal obligations for fishermen to declare their catches, a proportion of fishing activity remains unreported. This chiefly affects landings data and the effects on statistics on fishing effort are considered to be small. A 2009 study jointly funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for International Development estimated that between 2000 and 2003, illegal fishing in the northeast Atlantic amounted to between 5 and 13 per cent of reported catches of species studied. The extent of illegal and unreported fishing by UK vessels is uncertain and varies across stocks. However, it is considered that the overall level of unreported fishing has been reduced in recent years following the introduction of a scheme of registration for buyers and sellers of first sale fish, and the implementation of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1005/2008 establishing a Community system to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
It should be noted that landings do not typically equate to total catches, as fish may be returned to the sea through a practice known as discarding. The degree of discarding varies by stock, and by the sector of the fleet involved. The figures presented should not be interpreted as total removals from the sea.
Data processing:
Information from log sheets, landing declarations, sales notes and other sources is keyed into computers connected to the main databases by government staff at port offices, or is transferred electronically from the UK ERS Hub. Details of the areas fished are taken from the logbooks and entered as codes for the ICES divisions and statistical rectangles. Where a statistical rectangle is split into different areas (e.g. part is in EU waters and part in Norwegian waters) an additional code is used to indicate the zone fished. Where a vessel fishes in more than one area in a single trip, the total amounts for the trip of each species, as given in the sales notes and landing declarations are allocated to the areas in proportion to the estimated quantities of the species taken from each area, as recorded in the logbook. In many cases only the weight of fish landed is provided, as it is impractical to record the weight of fish at the time of capture due to working conditions. The landed weight may differ significantly from the weight of the fish as it was taken from the sea, in large part due to the processing of the catch on board the vessel (e.g. gutting, filleting, etc). To render these data comparable, the landed weights are converted to a live weight equivalent using standard conversion factors according to the species landed and its presentation (e.g. gutted, skinned, etc). The complete fishing records are transmitted to the central computer systems where further checks are carried out on the data before they are reflected in the main landings databases.
Activity and landings data for the UK are compiled in a central database containing key information from systems run by the MMO and Marine Scotland. The former holds information on all landings into England, Wales and Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man by UK vessels and of landings abroad by vessels administered by the MMO, WAG, DARD and Isle of Man Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture. The latter provides figures for landings into Scotland by all UK vessels and landings abroad by Scottish administered vessels.
Regular checks are made on the quality of the data and unusual records referred to staff in coastal offices to confirm or correct as necessary. In addition, prior to publication of these data, amendments are made to records with extreme prices for the weight of fish sold and values imputed based on average prices for the same species. The sale value of transhipped landings is also imputed using an average price. These are instances where fish may be landed in the UK, but it is transported (usually by road and ferry) out of the UK before it is sold. This usually happens to allow vessel owners to take advantage of higher market prices for some species of fish when sold at continental markets rather than in the UK. Note that this differs from transhipment at sea. This involves transferring fish between vessels before landing, which is banned within community waters.
Effort statistics for the UK are calculated using trip data from the fishing logbook to determine the time spent at sea with each gear.