Fishing

Fishing provides a source of fresh, nutritious food and supports remote rural communities around Scotland's coast. There are also strong export markets for Scottish fish.

Most of the fish stocks of interest to the Scottish sea fisheries industry span international boundaries and are often caught in mixed fisheries. This can lead to complicated interactions between regulations applied by different countries to individual species.

Various maps are presented in this section to illustrate data on Inshore Fishing (ScotMap project), VMS data analysis, fishing effort and fishing managed areas (areas closed to fishing for a specific purpose).