BUCKIE, fishing town and police burgh, Banffshire, Scotland, on the Moray Firth, at the mouth of Buckie burn, about 17m. W. of Banff, with a station on the L.N.E. railway. Pop. (1931), 8,688. It is the centre of a fishery district and for one of the largest Scottish fleets in the herring season, and is also the chief seat of line fishing in Scotland. The harbour, with an outer and inner basin, covers an area of 18 acres. Besides the fisheries and fish-curing trade there are engineering works, a distillery, saw mills, shipyards, and works for the making of ropes, sails and nets. The burn divides the town into Buckie and Buckpool. Port gordon, 2 M. W. of Buckie is a thriving fishing village; the harbour was enlarged in 1909. Rathven, some 2m. E., lies in a fertile district, where there are several antiquities.