On the first of the week Monday October 4 Nine trawlers landed a total of 3501 boxes of white fish which sold at Cod Large £2.70-£3.30. Medium £2.30-£2.60, Haddock large £2.00-£2.30, Medium £1.80-£2.00, Whiting £1.00-£1.50, Lemon Sole £1.00-£4.00, Monkfish £3.50-£4.20, Coley £1.10-£1.35, Megrims £1.20-£5.00, Hake £1.00-£3.00, Plaice 60p-£1.00, Witches £1.00-£2.00 and Ling £1.60-£1.80.
Trawlers landed Harvest Hope, Celestial Dawn, Austere, Russia Teign Fruitful Bough, Summer dawn, Golden Gain, Marimba, Opportune.
The following day market Tuesday saw Eleven trawlers land a total of 3129 boxes of white fish which sold at Large Cod £2.80-£3.80, Medium £2.20-£2.50, Haddock medium £2.20, Whiting £1.60-£2.00, Lemon Sole £1.00-£4.00, Coley 75p-£1.25, Monkfish £3.50-£4.20, Megrims £2.00-£5.00, Plaice 70p-£1.50, Witches £1.00-£2.00, Hake £1.50-£2.00 and Ling £1.50.
Boats landed Sustain, Vela, Acorn, Boy Andrew, Ocean Bounty, Ocean Reaper, Opportunus, Morey Endeavour, Transcend, Conquest, and Avocet.
On the Wednesday it was a slow day with only six boats landing a total of 2726 boxes of white fish which sold at market for Cod Large £2.70-£3.40, Medium £2.30-£3.20, Haddock large £2.50-£2.60, Medium £2,50-£2.30, Lemon Sole £1.00-£4.00, Whiting £1.00-£1.60, Monkfish £3.50-£4.20, Coley £1.00-£1.20, Megrims £1.00-£3.00, Witches £1.00-£1.50, Plaice 70p-£1.20, Hake £1.00-£2.50, Ling £1.50-£1.70.
Trawlers landed Shalimar, Content, Budding Rose, Lapwing Favonius and Discovery.
The following market day Thursday Nine trawlers landed a total of 4121 boxes of white fish which sold for the following Haddock Large £2.20-£2.50, Medium £2.00-£2.30, Cod Large £2.30-£3.30, medium £2.00-£3.00, Lemon Sole £1.00-£4.00, Whiting £1.30-£1.70, Monkfish £3.0-£4.20, Coley £1.10-£1.30, Megrims £2.50-£5.80, Witches £1.00-£1.60-Hake £1.30-£3.00, Ling £1.40-£1.60 and Plaice 65p-£1.50.
Trawlers landed Cariba, Norlantean, Acorn Sustain, Vela, Aquarius, Courageous, Ocean Dawn and Ocean Triumph.
The last market of the week Friday saw the biggest landings of the week with Sixteen boats landing a total of 4,333 boxes of white fish which sold for the following. Large Cod £2.70-£3.50, medium £2.40-£2.90, Haddock Large £1.70-£2.00, medium £1.70-£2.00, Whiting £1.40-£2.00,Lemon Sole £2.00-£5.00, Monkfish £3.50-£4.20, Coley £1.10-£1.40, Megrims £1.00-£1.40, Plaice 60p-£1.00, Ling £1.50-£1.70, Hake £1.50-£3.00 and Witches £1.00-£2.00.
Trawlers landed Genesis, Shalimar, Nordfjordr, Helenus, Content, Golden Sceptre, Ocean Harvest, Harvester, Gleaner, Attain, Castlewood, Our Pride, Heather Sprig, Crystal Tide, Accord, and Contest.
At Peterhead 51 vessels landed a total of 17,810 boxes of whitefish over the week. There were 11 Pelagic landings of mackerel.
At Ullapool there a decent week with one Scottish trawler landing 18 tonnes of whitefish, Five Spanish vessels landing 227 tonnes, while a Scottish Crabber brought in 15 tonnes of brown crab and a Scallop vessel landed five tonnes of locally caught scallops..
At Buckie harbour 17 boats landed a total of 957 boxes of whitefish, prawns and squid which sold for fair prices.
At Fraserburgh a total of 136 trawlers landed a total of 2,751 boxes of white fish which sold for fair prices.
At Pittenweem harbour only a few of the local prawn boats worked the local grounds due to bad weather. However prawns landed sold for good prices.
