UK sea fisheries annual statistics report 2024
The 2024 report on the UK commercial fishing industry including statistical tables and underlying data sets
Documents
UK Sea Fisheries Statistics 2024
PDF, 3.69 MB, 80 pages
UK Sea Fisheries Statistics 2024 StoryMap
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9361f5f8ea3d408dbd228772575126a6
Section 1 – Fleet
ODS, 166 KB
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Section 2 – Landings
ODS, 327 KB
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Section 3 – Effort
ODS, 31.6 KB
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Section 4 – Trade
ODS, 114 KB
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UK fleet landings by rectangle stock port and EEZ 2020-2024
ODS, 103 MB
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ICES rectangle spatial factors - Used for apportioning reported rectangle level landings data to Exclusive Economic Zones
ODS, 145 KB
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Pre-release Access List – Sea Fisheries Statistics 2024
PDF, 64.4 KB, 1 page
Details
This is an official statistics release.
The aim of this publication is to provide a comprehensive picture of UK Sea Fisheries in 2024, recent trends and long-term historical context, back to 1938 in some instances.
The publication is a summary of:
- The UK fishing fleet (Section 1)
- Its activity at sea
o Landings – how much fish are caught and landed (Section 2)
o Effort – how long is spent at sea (Section 3) - Trade (Section 4)
View the accompanying tables for each section and underlying datasets above
For details on the methodology and revisions policy please refer to the annexes within the PDF document above.
The quantity and value of landings by Scottish vessels in the MMO Sea Fisheries Statistics 2024 (published 2 December 2025) will be different to those published by Scottish Government in the Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2024 (published 27 October 2025).
After the release of Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2024, it was discovered that some landings for a number of Scottish vessels had been double counted.
Manual amendments are made to account for records that are excluded from the shared UK fisheries data system. Some of these records for landings in 2024 were unexpectedly added to the data system, meaning some landings by Scottish vessels were being included twice.
The landings data within the MMO Sea Fisheries Statistics 2024 have been corrected to remove double counting in landings by Scottish vessels.