• Observing and modelling
• Marine Climate Change Centre (MC3)
• Ecosystems and biodiversity
• Assessing human impacts
• Animal health and food safety
• Fisheries information
  • Fisheries Science Partnership
  • Commercial species
    • Cod
    • Whiting
    • Haddock
    • Plaice
    • Sole
    • Bass
    • Skates
  • Discards and fishing gear technology
  • Tagging programmes
  • Ecologically important fish habitats
  • Ageing fish
  • Recreational sea angling
  • Surveys
  • Deep-water species, NE Atlantic
  • Under-utilised species
  • Freshwater fisheries
  • Non-native species
  • Salmonids
  • Eels
  • Fish stomach records
  • Fish-eating birds
  • Unusual fish
  • Species of conservation importance

Related links

• Defra: Marine and freshwater fisheries
• International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
• ICES Advisory Committee (ACOM)
• UN: Food and Agriculture Organisation
• Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
• National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations
• Seafish

Commercial species

This section provides information on the fish stocks around the UK coast. These are updated each March.

Cod Gadus morhua	Whiting Merlangius merlangus	Haddock Melanogrammus aeglefinus
Hake Merluccius meluccius (PDF, 123 KB)	Anglerfish Lophius piscatorius (PDF, 333 KB)	Megrim Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (PDF 132 KB)
Plaice Pleuronectes platessa	Sole Solea solea	Shellfish
Herring Clupea harengus (PDF, 249 KB)	Mackerel Scomber scombrus (PDF, 278 KB)	Bass Dicentrarchus labrax
Skates	Saithe Pollachius virens (PDF, 375 KB)	Deep water species