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Metadata: Rod fishery statistics: salmon 2011 to 2024, sea trout 2017 to 2024 - reported catch by Stock Assessment Area
Abstract:
Reported rod catches of salmon, from the 2011 to 2024 seasons, and sea trout, from the 2017 to 2024 seasons, are provided by Stock Assessment Area and month. Statistical Salmon Fishery District and regional catch data are available within the time series: “Salmon and Sea Trout fishery statistics: 1952 - 2024 - reported catch and effort by method”{https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/12538-1}. The 2011 to 2016 season salmon rod catch data by Stock Assessment Area, was collected at Statistical Salmon Fishery District level and split into stock assessment areas retrospectively by the data providers, where possible. Sea trout data from 2011 to 2016 was not split into stock assessment areas and are therefore, not included. The 2017 to 2024 season salmon and sea trout rod catch data are the summations of reports from individual fisheries. Stock Assessment Area data is not comparable with Statistical Salmon Fishery District data. This is because: {insert bullet} not all fisheries in a District are in a Stock Assessed Area {insert bullet} only assessed Stock Assessment Areas are included. (Some Stock Assessment Areas have insufficient data to allow an assessment to be completed.) {insert bullet} any reports of salmon caught and released out of season are not used in assessing stocks, and are not included in this dataset. {insert bullet} where fish counter data is used in the stock assessment, the assessment uses catch from upstream of the counter only. Any reports of catch from downstream of fish counters in those areas are not used in assessing stocks, and are not included in this dataset. Retained salmon, retained sea trout, and caught and released sea trout are included in the dataset though not used in the stock assessment. However, this does not include catch from below fish counters. No attempt has been made to correct for non-returns or incomplete information held in the register of fishery contacts. Stock Assessment Areas included in this time series are those where the conservation status of salmon stocks are assessed for the Conservation of Salmon (Scotland) Regulations 2016 and the data will be used in the conservation assessment for the 2026 season river gradings. Assessment Areas are individual rivers draining to the coast, except for those areas where fishery catch cannot be assigned to individual rivers. In such cases, rivers are combined to form geographically-coherent groups of rivers. A list of Stock Assessment Areas with their corresponding Salmon Fishery District and Salmon Fishery Region is available to download below. Marine Scotland has published a summary of the "2024 Official Statistics for the time series (1952 to 2024) for salmon and sea trout”{https://www.gov.scot/isbn/9781836914761}. Time series data, by District, are available from "Marine Scotland Data"{https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/12538-1} and summary data are available from our data visualisation application, accessible from the related content section below.
Data holder:
Scottish Government (Marine Scotland)
Use constraints:
no limitations to public access
| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 4046 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | Rod fishery statistics: salmon 2011 to 2024, sea trout 2017 to 2024 - reported catch by Stock Assessment Area |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12539 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12539 |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2011-01-01 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2024-12-31 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | 200.00 |
| Spatial resolution unit | This describes the unit of spatial resolution which for distance must be metres. | http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/gmxUom.xml#m |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | unknown |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | Reported rod catches of salmon, from the 2011 to 2024 seasons, and sea trout, from the 2017 to 2024 seasons, are provided by Stock Assessment Area and month. Statistical Salmon Fishery District and regional catch data are available within the time series: “Salmon and Sea Trout fishery statistics: 1952 - 2024 - reported catch and effort by method”{https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/12538-1}. The 2011 to 2016 season salmon rod catch data by Stock Assessment Area, was collected at Statistical Salmon Fishery District level and split into stock assessment areas retrospectively by the data providers, where possible. Sea trout data from 2011 to 2016 was not split into stock assessment areas and are therefore, not included. The 2017 to 2024 season salmon and sea trout rod catch data are the summations of reports from individual fisheries. Stock Assessment Area data is not comparable with Statistical Salmon Fishery District data. This is because: {insert bullet} not all fisheries in a District are in a Stock Assessed Area {insert bullet} only assessed Stock Assessment Areas are included. (Some Stock Assessment Areas have insufficient data to allow an assessment to be completed.) {insert bullet} any reports of salmon caught and released out of season are not used in assessing stocks, and are not included in this dataset. {insert bullet} where fish counter data is used in the stock assessment, the assessment uses catch from upstream of the counter only. Any reports of catch from downstream of fish counters in those areas are not used in assessing stocks, and are not included in this dataset. Retained salmon, retained sea trout, and caught and released sea trout are included in the dataset though not used in the stock assessment. However, this does not include catch from below fish counters. No attempt has been made to correct for non-returns or incomplete information held in the register of fishery contacts. Stock Assessment Areas included in this time series are those where the conservation status of salmon stocks are assessed for the Conservation of Salmon (Scotland) Regulations 2016 and the data will be used in the conservation assessment for the 2026 season river gradings. Assessment Areas are individual rivers draining to the coast, except for those areas where fishery catch cannot be assigned to individual rivers. In such cases, rivers are combined to form geographically-coherent groups of rivers. A list of Stock Assessment Areas with their corresponding Salmon Fishery District and Salmon Fishery Region is available to download below. Marine Scotland has published a summary of the "2024 Official Statistics for the time series (1952 to 2024) for salmon and sea trout”{https://www.gov.scot/isbn/9781836914761}. Time series data, by District, are available from "Marine Scotland Data"{https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/12538-1} and summary data are available from our data visualisation application, accessible from the related content section below. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Catch data is collected annually at the end of each season from salmon fishery proprietors, occupiers or their agents. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Fish and shellfish catch statistics | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 61.00341 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -0.4614258 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 54.48081 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -8.02002 |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) | |
| Phone | +44 (0)300 244 4000 | |
| marinescotland@gov.scot | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) | |
| Phone | +44 (0)300 244 4000 | |
| Delivery point | Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay | |
| Postal code | EH6 6QQ | |
| City | Edinburgh | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| marinescotland@gov.scot | ||
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) | |
| Phone | +44 (0)300 244 4000 | |
| Delivery point | Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay | |
| Postal code | EH6 6QQ | |
| City | Edinburgh | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| marinescotland@gov.scot | ||
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) | |
| Phone | +44 (0)300 244 4000 | |
| Delivery point | Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay | |
| Postal code | EH6 6QQ | |
| City | Edinburgh | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| marinescotland@gov.scot | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Marine Scotland | |
| Phone | +44 (0)300 244 4000 | |
| Delivery point | 1B South, Victoria Quay | |
| Postal code | EH6 6QQ | |
| City | Edinburgh | |
| Country | United Kingdom | |
| marinescotland@gov.scot | ||
| Resource locators | ||
| Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/12539-1 |
| Locator function | Code that describes the function of the resource. ISO function code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/12539-1 |
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | otherRestrictions | |
| 20 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | This states any limitations on access to the data and uses free text. | no limitations to public access |
| 21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from the Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2025-05-14 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2025-05-06 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery Metadata |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | Version 2.3.7 |