Creel Fishing Effort Study

What is it:

Measuring fishing effort is important for assessing the environmental sustainability of fish stocks and the socioeconomic efficiency of fishing activity. Fishing effort describes the amount of fishing gear used on a fishing ground over a given unit of time. Effort in this these map layers is defined as number of creels hauled per day per 4 km².

The Creel Survey Effort report can be found in the data source table below. Two map layers have been made available to view on Marine Scotland Maps (NMPi) and to download. These layers cover average number of crab/lobster hauls per cell per day and average number of nephrop hauls per cell per day. Both can be viewed by following the links in the map table below.

Data originators:

Scottish Government (Marine Directorate)

This information page is part of the theme:

Fishing Activity

Avergae number of crab/lobster hauls per cell per day © Marine Scotland

More Information:

This survey interviewed 198 creel vessel skippers from four regions, two on the west and two on the east coast of Scotland. The regions, included in the map layer, indicate the target areas but effort features were not clipped to the regions. This analysis has been produced from these SAMPLED vessels only. This IS NOT a census and IS NOT a map of all creeling effort in these waters or in the survey areas. This is an indication of potential fishing effort only and if creeling is not quantified in an area in this map, that does not mean creeling is not taking place. Equally, quantified effort could be higher given some creeling vessels were not surveyed. Fishing effort outside of the surveyed areas was not measured

This page was last modified on :

Tuesday, September 26, 2017 - 13:09

Map Type	Click title for metadata and licence information	Date of data	View Map
Map Layers (NMPi)	Creel Fishing Effort Study - Average number of crab and lobster hauls per day	2015-10-01 to 2016-09-30	Access this map on NMPi
Map Layers (NMPi)	Creel Fishing Effort Study - Average number of nephrop hauls per day	2015-10-01 to 2016-09-30	Access this map on NMPi

Type	Link Title	External Link
Reports	Creel Fishing Effort Study	www.gov.scot