Dáil Éireann Debate, Friday - 7 September 2018
1023. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of landings made from the UK exclusive economic zone for each specific fishing stock, in tabular form. [36952/18]
View answerI have set out in a table the volume of each species landed by the Irish fishing fleet which was taken from the UK EEZ and the percentage this represents of overall Irish landings of that species. Figures have been compiled by the Marine Institute and are an average of landings from the period 2011-2015
Average Irish landings in the UK EEZ by volume (kilotonnes) value (millions of euro) for 2011-15
|
Stock |
UK EEZ kt |
% of tonnage |
|
Mackerel |
47.7 |
63.68% |
|
Nephrops |
3.7 |
40.13% |
|
Horse mackerel |
10.3 |
27.89% |
|
Anglerfish |
0.7 |
18.00% |
|
Herring |
8.7 |
31.32% |
|
Megrim |
0.7 |
22.94% |
|
Edible crab |
0.2 |
3.45% |
|
Other species |
0.7 |
8.14% |
|
Scallops |
1.1 |
42.02% |
|
Whiting |
1.4 |
22.55% |
|
Blue whiting |
0.3 |
2.27% |
|
Hake |
0.2 |
8.00% |
|
Albacore |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Haddock |
0.8 |
18.39% |
|
Boarfish |
6.3 |
17.56% |
|
Cod |
0.4 |
23.63% |
|
Razor clams |
0.0 |
5.36% |
|
Sole |
0.0 |
17.00% |
|
Pollack |
0.1 |
6.79% |
|
Whelk |
0.3 |
23.76% |
|
European lobster |
0.0 |
1.17% |
|
European sprat |
0.0 |
0.44% |
|
Turbot |
0.0 |
11.37% |
|
Saithe |
0.1 |
7.72% |
|
Witch |
0.1 |
21.12% |
|
Lemon sole |
0.1 |
17.49% |
|
Rays and skates |
0.3 |
23.28% |
|
Ling |
0.1 |
20.92% |
|
Common shrimp |
0.0 |
0.01% |
|
Palaemonid shrimps nei |
0.0 |
0.02% |
|
John dory |
0.0 |
19.29% |
|
Plaice |
0.1 |
19.35% |
|
Squid |
0.1 |
33.46% |
|
Palinurid spiny lobsters nei |
0.0 |
0.01% |
|
Spinous spider crab |
0.0 |
0.33% |
|
Velvet swimcrab |
0.0 |
0.30% |
|
European flat oyster |
0.0 |
0.76% |
|
Brill |
0.0 |
11.19% |
|
Sharks, rays, skates, etc. nei |
0.1 |
21.28% |
|
Mussels |
0.0 |
11.82% |
|
Mullets nei |
0.0 |
0.44% |
|
Atlantic bluefin tuna |
0.0 |
7.27% |
|
Pandalus |
0.0 |
37.96% |
|
Gurnards, searobins nei |
0.0 |
21.62% |
|
Surf clams nei |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Clams, etc. nei |
0.0 |
0.99% |
|
Penaeus shrimps nei |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
European conger |
0.0 |
33.58% |
|
European pilchard(=Sardine) |
0.1 |
16.81% |
|
Swordfish |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Blackbelly rosefish |
0.0 |
7.02% |
|
Atlantic halibut |
0.0 |
2.73% |
|
Forkbeard |
0.0 |
0.41% |
|
Common periwinkle |
0.0 |
12.01% |
|
Nursehound |
0.0 |
32.62% |
|
Deep-sea red crab |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Horned and musky octopuses |
0.0 |
9.04% |
|
Green crab |
0.0 |
0.01% |
|
Common cuttlefish |
0.0 |
80.28% |
|
Anchovy |
0.0 |
18.04% |
|
Solid surf clam |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Surmullet |
0.0 |
17.53% |
|
Red gurnard |
0.0 |
15.43% |
|
Common dab |
0.0 |
24.76% |
|
Sevenstar flying squid |
0.0 |
39.16% |
|
Flatfishes nei |
0.0 |
31.97% |
|
Wolffishes(=Catfishes) nei |
0.0 |
9.34% |
|
Cuttlefish |
0.0 |
89.00% |
|
Spiny lobsters nei |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Atlantic redfishes nei |
0.0 |
0.31% |
|
European seabass |
0.0 |
68.20% |
|
Sand gaper |
0.0 |
1.68% |
|
Octopuses nei |
0.0 |
26.08% |
|
Tusk |
0.0 |
4.27% |
|
Common mora |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Sand sole |
0.0 |
23.34% |
|
Wrasses, hogfishes, etc. nei |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Flat oysters nei |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Greenland halibut |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Flathead grey mullet |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Black sole |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Amer. plaice(=Long rough dab) |
0.0 |
0.55% |
|
Red mullet |
0.0 |
51.53% |
|
Pouting(=Bib) |
0.0 |
20.20% |
|
Redfish |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Pacific cupped oyster |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Breams |
0.0 |
25.74% |
|
Blue ling |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Ballan wrasse |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Common spiny lobster |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Threadfin rockling |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Swimming crabs, etc. nei |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Common octopus |
0.0 |
16.36% |
|
Sea cucumbers nei |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Orange roughy |
0.0 |
17.39% |
|
Smooth-hound |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Argentine |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Gadiformes nei |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Scorpionfishes nei |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Rabbit fish |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Moras nei |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Brown king crab |
0.0 |
0.00% |
|
Grand Total |
84.9 |
32.92% |
