{"id":346,"date":"2019-05-31T10:54:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T10:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/?p=346"},"modified":"2021-04-20T17:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:58:44","slug":"scottish-shellfish-farm-production-survey-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/2019\/05\/31\/scottish-shellfish-farm-production-survey-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish shellfish farm production survey 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statistical news release<\/p>\n<p>Marine Scotland Science today published the Scottish Shellfish Farm Production Survey 2018. The publication details statistics on the employment, production and value of shellfish from Scottish Shellfish Farms. It is structured to follow industry trends within the mussel, Pacific oyster, native oyster, queen scallop and scallop species sectors. Some statistics are given for the 10-year period 2009-2018.<\/p>\n<p>The main findings are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Overall estimated first sale value of the industry was calculated to be approximately \u00a39.5 million in 2018<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Table production tonnage of mussels decreased by 16% from 8,232 tonnes in 2017 to 6,874 tonnes in 2018<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Table production of Pacific oyster shells decreased by 20% from the 2017 total. Additionally, over 4.2 million shells were produced for on-growing in other waters<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Employment decreased by 9% from 2017, with 298 full, part-time and casual staff employed in 2018<\/p>\n<p>Contact: <a href=\"mailto:alan.bannon@gov.scot\">alan.bannon@gov.scot<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistical news release Marine Scotland Science today published the Scottish Shellfish Farm Production Survey 2018. The publication details statistics on the employment, production and value of shellfish from Scottish Shellfish Farms. It is structured to follow industry trends within the mussel, Pacific oyster, native oyster, queen scallop and scallop species sectors. Some statistics are given&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}