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Priority Marine Features: Fish species
Key Findings
- Scotland’s seas sustain an extensive range of fish that have been supporting livelihoods, food and culture in the country for centuries.
- The term ‘wider fish community’ relates to 167 commercial and non-commercial species (including elasmobranchs) collected by the International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS). The IBTS is undertaken twice yearly by Marine Scotland to investigate any changes in bottom-dwelling (demersal) fish communities. Several of these fish species are also protected as Priority Marine Features in Scottish territorial and offshore waters.
Notes
2006 represents the data used in the 2009 State of the East Grampian Coast report.
Fraserburgh (including the ports of Fraserburgh, Gardenstown, Macduff, Pennan, Portsoy, Rosehearty, Sandhaven and Whitehills)
Peterhead (Peterhead, Port Errol and Boddam)
Aberdeen (Aberdeen, Catterline, Gourdon, Johnshaven, Stonehaven, Montrose and Arbroath)
Linked Information Sheets
- Sharks, Skates and Rays (Elasmobranchs) in Scotland
- Common Skates Complex
- Basking Shark
- Blonde Ray
- Stingray
- Cuckoo Ray
- Longnosed skate
- Porbeagle Shark
- Spiny dogfish
- Blue Shark
- Small-spotted catshark
- Tope
- Nursehound
- Stary Smoothhound
- Thornback Ray
- Starry Skate
- Sandy Ray
- Atlantic Salmon
- Sea/Brown Trout
- Lamprey
- Eel
- European Lobster
- Brown Crab
Key sources of Information
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Status
Live - next update 08/01/2026
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