Question reference: S2W-32449
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 16 March 2007
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Current status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 29 March 2007
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much time per annum is spent by each Scottish fishery patrol vessel in patrolling fishing grounds, also broken down into the time spent in each ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) square.
Answer
Fishery Protection Vessels (FPVs)operated by the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency spent a total of 1,117 dayspatrolling the fishing grounds in 2006.
A record of the time spent by individualFPVs in each International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) statisticalrectangle is not held centrally. The information requested could be estimated throughan analysis of available satellite monitoring data but only at a disproportionatecost. However, a record of the time spent patrolling fishing grounds in 2006 atthe next aggregated level, ICES sub area, is kept and is given in the followingtable broken down by each FPV:
| FPV | ICES sub areas | Total | ||||||
| IIA | IVA | IVB | VB | VIA | VIB | VIIA | ||
| Jura | 0.5 | 164.5 | 64 | 0 | 23.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 253.5 |
| Minna | 0.5 | 71.5 | 16 | 1.5 | 217.5 | 0 | 0 | 307 |
| Norna | 0 | 20.5 | 8 | 0.5 | 231 | 19.5 | 1 | 280.5 |
| Vigilant | 1 | 171 | 35.5 | 0.5 | 56.5 | 11 | 0.5 | 276 |
| Total | 2 | 426.5 | 123.5 | 2.5 | 528.5 | 31 | 2 | 1117 |