Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12457 eng dataset Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) +44 (0)300 244 4000 marinescotland@gov.scot pointOfContact 2023-05-17 MEDIN Discovery Metadata Version 2.3.7 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP Salmon and sea trout fishery statistics: 1952 to 2022 season - reported catch by district and method 2023-05-17 publication Marine_Scotland_FishDAC_12457 Aggregated salmon and sea trout catch statistics are provided for 109 Salmon Fishery Districts, covering all of Scotland. The categories by which sea trout data have been reported have varied through the time series (see “Collecting the Marine Scotland Salmon and Sea Trout Fishery Statistics”{https://www.gov.scot/isbn/9781805258438}). Finnock catches have been reported since 2004. Finnock, which may also be known as whitling or herling, are sea trout which have spent less than a year at sea and are making their first return to fresh water. They are not included in sea trout numbers. Catches of farmed multi-sea winter (MSW) and one-sea winter (1SW) salmon have been reported since 1994. Marine Scotland have published a summary of the "2022 Official Statistics for salmon and sea trout catches"{http://www.gov.scot/isbn/9781805258551} catches. Summary data for the time series are available from our data visualisation application, accessible from the related content section below. Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) +44 (0)300 244 4000 Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay Edinburgh EH6 6QQ United Kingdom marinescotland@gov.scot pointOfContact Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) +44 (0)300 244 4000 Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay Edinburgh EH6 6QQ United Kingdom marinescotland@gov.scot custodian Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) +44 (0)300 244 4000 Mailpoint 11, Area 1B South, Victoria Quay Edinburgh EH6 6QQ United Kingdom marinescotland@gov.scot distributor Marine Scotland +44 (0)300 244 4000 1B South, Victoria Quay Edinburgh EH6 6QQ United Kingdom marinescotland@gov.scot originator unknown Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Fish and shellfish catch statistics SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary 2018-12-12 revision The following attribution statement must be used: Contains information from the Scottish Government (Marine Scotland) licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. otherRestrictions no limitations to public access 200.00 eng biota -8.041867 -0.4832731 54.46801 60.99273 SeaDataNet vertical extent keywords 2010-01-01 revision The correct value is not known to, and not computable by, the sender of this data. However, a correct value probably exists. 1952-01-01 2022-12-31 https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/12457-1 DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.7489/12457-1 http://doi.org/10.7489/12457-1 download http://doi.org/10.7489/12457-1 download https://scotland.shinyapps.io/sg-salmon-sea-trout-catch/ download dataset Fishery statistics for a given season are usually published in the following May. Historical data will be updated each May with the publication of the following year’s data.