Fishing Statistics - Gridded fisheries data within Scottish waters for Scottish fishing vessels under 12m overall length - annual averages 2017 to 2021

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 21 September 2023
• Topic: Not added
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

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 2017 and 2021, 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 "Other" - e.g. set nets; diving; hand gathering etc

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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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
fishing_under12_data	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
fishing_under12_data	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available
fishing_under12_data	N/A	21 September 2023	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-09-12
• Access contraints: no limitations to public access
• Harvest GUID: Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12436
• Extent: Latitude: 61.0607° to 54.43328°
• Extent: Longitude: -9.024066° to -0.3209332°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
• Dataset reference date: 2022-12-22 (publication)
• Frequency of update: unknown
• Responsible party: Scottish Government (pointOfContact, custodian, distributor, originator)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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Licence information

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.