Shetland Fisheries Statistics 2018

In 2018:
- 69,000 tonnes of fish and shellfish, worth £88 million, were landed in Shetland, just under half of it by Shetland fishing boats.
- One-fifth of all the finfish landed in Scotland, and one-sixth of that landed in the UK, were landed in Shetland.
- More fish and shellfish were landed in Shetland – and in Lerwick – that in any other port in the UK, except Peterhead.
- More finfish were landed in Shetland than in all of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
- Shetland boats landed 111,000 tonnes of fish and shellfish worth £117 million.
- Shetland boats accounted for one-quarter of all the fish and shellfish landed by Scottish boats, and one-sixth of that landed by UK boats.
- A record 25,000 tonnes of whitefish worth £50 million were landed in Shetland, more than three-quarters of it by local boats.
- The weight of whitefish landed in Shetland has more than tripled since the electronic fish auction was introduced in 2003, and the value has increased almost seven-fold.
- Lerwick, Scalloway and Cullivoe were all in the top-12 UK ports for whitefish landings.
- Shetland boats landed 18,000 tonnes of whitefish worth £38 million, almost all of it in Shetland.
- 42,000 tonnes of pelagic fish, worth £32 million, were landed in Shetland.
- 2,100 tonnes of shellfish, worth £5 million, were landed in Shetland.