Fisheries

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which 10 UK fishing ports had the greatest (a) number of home fishing vessels and (b) volume of landings in the latest period for which figures are available. (249290)

In 2007, the top 10 UK ports based on the number of vessels having them as their home port are shown as follows.

Home port	Number of vessels
Newlyn	204
Kilkeel	121
Poole	115
Fraserburgh	109
Brixham	105
Plymouth	91
Peterhead	89
Mevagissey	82
Milford Haven	79
Portsmouth	75

In 2007, the top 10 UK ports based on the volume of landings by UK and foreign fishing vessels are shown as follows.

Port of landing	Thousand tonnes (live weight)
Peterhead	147.7
Lerwick	114.9
Fraserburgh	28.9
Lochinver	21.0
Scrabster	15.8
Plymouth	13.0
Brixham	11.3
Aberdeen	10.5
Ardglass	10.0
Newlyn	9.5

Volume 486: debated on Tuesday 20 January 2009