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Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
Updated statistics from the UK's Marine Management Organisation on the UK fishing sector show that UK vessels landed 724 thousand tonnes of sea fish in 2017, with a value of £980 million. Scottish vessels accounted for 64 per cent of the quantity of landings by the UK fleet while English vessels accounted for 28 per cent.
This is a list of fish families sorted alphabetically by scientific name. There are 525 families in the list. ... Statistics; Cookie statement; Mobile view;
The Marine Directorate's Science division undertakes research and provides scientific and technical advice to the Scottish Government (and the UK and European Union authorities) on a number of marine and fisheries issues including aquaculture and fish health, freshwater fisheries, sea fisheries and the marine ecosystem in Scotland's seas. [25]
Following is a sortable table of the world fisheries' harvest of aquatic plants for 2005. The tonnage from capture and aquaculture is listed by country. Countries whose total harvest was less than 100,000 tons are not included.
This is an impartial (not implicitly biased to a single governing body, the BRFC) and comprehensive record list of 310 British record freshwater fish, past and present, involving 60 species/sub-species of fish caught using the traditional angling method of rod and line. Records include the angler, species, weight, date, venue, also referenced ...
Other fish are farmed commercially in the United Kingdom; small amounts of sea trout, common carp, halibut and Nile tilapia. [94] Fish are also bred commercially for fish feed and also for the ornamental pond/tank market. [95] Halibut is farmed at an onshore farm using recirculation tanks on the Isle of Gigha in Scotland. [96]
The Darwin Mounds are an important area of deep sea cold water coral reefs discovered in 1998. Inland, nearly 400 genetically distinct populations of Atlantic salmon live in Scottish rivers. [10] Of the 42 species of fish found in the country's fresh waters, half have arrived by natural colonisation and half by human introduction.