In December 2011, 17 confirscation orders totalling almost £3 million were made against 17 Shetland skippers convicted of "black fish" landings.
In January 2012 assets worth £992,000 were confiscated from two men under civil recovery proceedings that began in 2004. Civil recovery targets assets, rather than individuals, and the assets included three properties that were ruled as having been obtained through crime. The Civil Recovery Unit believed that the crimes included drugs, extortion, fraud and money laundering.