The Fishing Industry of NE Scotland. An Analysis of Port Facilities, Fleets and Landings

Summary

Within the North East of Scotland between the Cromarty Firth and Stonehaven are situated the United Kingdom’s two top ports in terms of value of fish landed viz. Peterhead and Aberdeen, Fraserburgh challenges Grimsby, Newlyn and Lowestoft for third place. It is also the base for a large itinerant fleet of vessels fishing out of the ports in North West Scotland between Kinlochbervie and Mallaig; indeed the great majority of vessels fishing out of these ports are based on the Moray Firth between Lossimouth and Fraserburgh. Historically the area harboured a large number of herring drifters which until the 1950’s followed the herring shoals from Shetland to Great Yarmouth. This report has been produced from a scanned original and may therefore contain some formatting and other inaccuracies. In cases where this affects the technical content, a paper copy of the original report can still be obtained from Seafish.

Publication Reference No.

SR349

Publication date

01 January 1989