Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2003
Table 5. Active Scottish based vessels, by main fishing method and overall length group, 31st December 2003
| <8 metres | 8-10
metres | >10-12
metres | >12<15
metres | 15-18
metres | >18-24
metres | >24-30
metres | >30-40
metres | >40-50
metres | over 50
metres | Total |
Demersal single trawl | 4 | 19 | 5 | 13 | 35 | 95 | 51 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 239 |
Demersal pair trawl | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
Seine net | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 34 |
Lines | 18 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
Demersal pair seine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Demersal gill nets | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
Demersal twin/mult trawl | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
Beam trawl | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 19 |
Other demersal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Demersal total | 31 | 36 | 8 | 15 | 43 | 142 | 83 | 31 | 10 | - | 399 |
Purse seine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
Pelagic trawl | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 21 |
Other pelagic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Pelagic total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 23 | 29 |
Creel fishing | 997 | 409 | 91 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,522 |
Nephrops trawl | 2 | 100 | 61 | 52 | 63 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 296 |
Mechanical dredging | 2 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 31 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Suction dredging | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Shell fishing by hand | 31 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 |
Shrimp trawl | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Shellfish total | 1,032 | 533 | 172 | 79 | 100 | 41 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1,967 |
Total | 1,063 | 569 | 180 | 94 | 143 | 183 | 89 | 35 | 16 | 23 | 2,395 |