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Commercial Fisheries Technical Report Poseidon Aquatic Resource Management Ltd. March 2018 Commercial Fisheries Appendix 10.1 Technical Report Table of Contents 1 Introduction ................................................................................................... 7 1.1 Context ......................................................................................................................... 7 1.2 Commercial Fisheries Study Area .................................................................................. 7 1.3 Data Sources ................................................................................................................. 7 2 Eastern Scottish Ports ................................................................................... 10 2.1 Overview .................................................................................................................... 10 2.2 Fife ............................................................................................................................. 10 2.3 East Lothian and Scottish Borders................................................................................ 14 2.4 Aberdeenshire and Angus ........................................................................................... 18 3 Key Fleets and Fisheries................................................................................ 23 3.1 Overview of Regional Landings .................................................................................... 23 3.2 Key Species ................................................................................................................. 24 3.3 Key Gears .................................................................................................................... 34 4 Fisheries Activity Assessment ....................................................................... 41 4.1 Wind Farm Area .......................................................................................................... 41 4.2 Offshore Export Cable Corridor ................................................................................... 47 5 Summary ...................................................................................................... 53 References ........................................................................................................... 54 Table of Illustrations Illustration 2.1 Length profile shown as a bar chart (left) and pie chart (right), for 290 vessels listed with administrative ports of: Pittenweem, Eyemouth and Aberdeenshire. .................................................... 10 Illustration 2.2 Pittenweem harbour (left) and length profile of vessels registered under the administrative port of Pittenweem (including 3 additional vessels from Oban and Fraserburgh). (Data source: Defra, 2017). ...................................................................................................................................................... 11 Illustration 2.3 Length profile of vessels registered under Pittenweem administrative port, indicating home port. (Data source: Defra, 2017). ........................................................................................................... 12 Illustration 2.4 Vessel capacity (left) and age profiles (right) of vessels registered under the administrative port of Pittenweem (including 3 additional vessels from Oban and Fraserburgh). (Data source: Defra, 2017). ...................................................................................................................................................... 12 Illustration 2.5 First sales value (top) and live weight, tonnes (bottom) of landings by UK vessels into Fife ports from 2014 to 2016 indicating species (including landings into the following ports: Pittenweem, St Andrews, Anstrusther, Crail, Methil & Leven, St Monance, .................................................................... 13 Page 2 Document Reference Number: UK02-0504-0741-MRP-OFFSHORE_EIAR-RPT-A2 Commercial Fisheries Appendix 10.1 Technical Report Illustration 2.6 First sales value (top) and live weight, tonnes (bottom) of landings by UK vessels into Fife ports in 2016 indicating species. Please note difference in scale for Pittenweem, due to the higher level of landings in comparison to other ports. (Data source: MMO, 2017) .................................................. 14 Illustration 2.7 Ports of Eyemouth (top left), Port Seton (Traynor, 2010) (top right), North Berwick (bottom left) and Dunbar (bottom right). ............................................................................................................. 15 Illustration 2.8 Length profile of vessels registered under the administrative port of Eyemouth. (Data source: Defra, 2017). ........................................................................................................................................... 16 Illustration 2.9 Length profile of vessels registered under Eyemouth administrative port, indicating home port. (Data source: Defra, 2017). ........................................................................................................... 16 Illustration 2.10 Vessel capacity (left) and age profiles (right) of vessels registered under the administrative port of Eyemouth. (Data source: Defra, 2017). ...................................................................................... 17 Illustration 2.11 First sales value (top) and live weight, tonnes (bottom) of landings by UK vessels into East Lothian and Scottish Borders ports from 2014 to 2016 indicating species (including landings into the following ports: Eyemouth, Dunbar, Burnmouth, Port Seton, St Abbs, Cove (Leith), Newhaven, North Berwick and Granton). (Data source: MMO, 2017). .............................................................................. 17 Illustration 2.12 First sales value (top) and live weight, tonnes (bottom) of landings by UK vessels into East Lothian and Scottish Borders ports in 2016 indicating species. (Data source: MMO, 2017). ................ 18 Illustration 2.13 Arbroath harbour (left) and length profile of vessels registered under the administrative port of Aberdeenshire. (Data source: Defra, 2017; photo source: List, 2016). ...................................... 19 Illustration 2.14 Length profile of vessels registered under Aberdeen administrative port, indicating home port. (Data source: Defra, 2017). ........................................................................................................... 19 Illustration 2.15 Vessel capacity (left) and age profiles (right) of vessels registered under the administrative port of Aberdeen. (Data source: Defra, 2017). ...................................................................................... 20 Illustration 2.16 First sales value (top) and live weight, tonnes (bottom) of landings by UK vessels into Aberdeenshire and Angus ports from 2014 to 2016 indicating species (including landings into the following ports: Arbroath, Aberdeen, Stonehaven, Montrose and Johnhaven. (Data source: MMO, 2017). ...................................................................................................................................................... 21 Illustration 2.17 First sales value (top) and live weight, tonnes (bottom) of landings by UK vessels into Aberdeenshire and Angus ports in 2016 indicating species. (Data source: MMO, 2017). ..................... 22 Illustration 3.1 Average annual value of species landed by UK vessels from the regional commercial fisheries study area indicating gear type (based on five-years’ data from 2011 to 2015) (Data source: MMO, 2017) ....................................................................................................................................................... 23 Illustration 3.2 Average annual value of species landed by UK vessels from the regional commercial fisheries study area indicating vessel length category (based on five-years’ data from 2011 to 2015) (Data source: MMO, 2017) ............................................................................................................................... 24 Illustration 3.3 Harvest rate and stock abundance of nephrops in the Firth of Forth Functional Unit (ICES, 2017) ....................................................................................................................................................... 25 Illustration 3.4 Distribution of Scottish nephrops landings in the North Sea in 2015, based on landings weight (tonnes) (Barreto et al, 2017) ................................................................................................................. 25 Illustration 3.5 Seasonality of UK landings of nephrops from the regional study area. (Data source: MMO, 2017) ....................................................................................................................................................... 26 Illustration 3.6 Distribution of Scottish lobster landings in the North Sea in 2015, based on landings weight (Barreto et al, 2017) ................................................................................................................................ 27 Document Reference Number: UK02-0504-0741-MRP-OFFSHORE_EIAR-RPT-A2 Page 3 Commercial Fisheries Appendix 10.1 Technical Report Illustration 3.7 Seasonality of UK landings of lobster from the regional study area. (Data source: MMO, 2017) ......................................................................................................................................................