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	Allrecipes Cook's Encyclopedia plaice
		The European plaice, a similar fish but with different coloring, is found in the North Sea and is widely popular in Europe.
		Both the American and European plaice are suitable for almost any cooking method.
		The American plaice can get as large as 12 pounds but is usually marketed in the 2- to 3-pound range.
	allrecipes.com /advice/ref/ency/terms/7960.asp (146 words)

	Hormel Foods - Glossary - Plaice
		The plaice is a member of the flounder family and is found in two varieties: the American plaice and the European plaice.
		Plaice is a flatfish, which is characterized by a very flat body and like other flatfish, have both eyes located on one side of the body.
		The American plaice can be shades of reddish to gray-brown and grow as large as 12 or 13 pounds, but are generally marketed at 2 to 4 pounds.
	www.hormel.com /kitchen/glossary.asp?id=33798 (265 words)

	Plaice. (from flatfish) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Considered the most commercially valuable European flatfish, the plaice is caught in large numbers in the waters of the northern Atlantic Ocean.
		Plaice are sometimes found at depths of more than 375 feet (114 meters) but are commonly found from 80 to 225 feet (24 to 68 meters).
		Plaice are sometimes found at depths of more than 375 feet (114 meters) but are commonly found from 80 to 225 feet (24 to 68...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-200824?tocId=200824 (631 words)

	European plaice - Pleuronectes platessa: More Information - ARKive
		European plaice are active mainly at night, when they feed on molluscs and polychaete worms (2), which are crushed with the strong jaws (4).
		In the first year of life, juvenile plaice tend to live in shallow water and can often be found close to beaches (5).
		The overfishing of stocks of commercial fish is a severe and complex problem around the world, with many well-known species including cod and plaice in serious decline and at risk of complete collapse (7).
	www.arkive.org /species/ARK/fish/Pleuronectes_platessa/more_info.html (675 words)

	fish.jsp?mode=minifact&minifact=_minifactAsset_4529546270
		The common European plaice is perfectly patterned for its life on the seabed!
		When a baby plaice is born, it has one eye on each side of its head like most other fish do.
		With both its eyes squished together on one side the plaice can now lie flat on its side on the seabed and still see where it is going!
	www.planetarkive.org /creatures/fish.jsp?mode=minifact&minifact=_minifactAsset_4529546270 (174 words)

	EMERGENCY RECOVERY PLAN
		An emergency programme to increase all threatened stocks such as cod, plaice and herring to levels that are safely above the minimum sustainable stock biomass -to be achieved within 5 years.
		Since the North Sea ecosystem faces a crisis, urgent measures are needed as this fundamental reform of disastrous European fisheries policy gets underway.
		Greenpeace demands that North Sea governments, by the time of the IMM meeting at the latest, adopt an emergency recovery plan for all North Sea fisheries.
	archive.greenpeace.org /comms/cbio/emerg.html (174 words)

	flatfish. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
		common name for any member of the unique and widespread order Pleuronectiformes containing over 500 species (including the flounder, halibut, plaice, sole, and turbot), 130 of which are American.
		It is much smaller than its European cousins, rarely weighing over 2 lb (.9 kg), whereas the European turbots may reach 30 lb (13.5 kg).
		Flatfishes are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Osteichthyes, order Pleuronectiformes.
	www.bartleby.com /65/fl/flatfish.html (174 words)

	Canada Announces Progress at the Nafo Annual Meeting
		Canada was also instrumental in pushing for the adoption of a detailed action plan to implement the precautionary approach, on a pilot basis, for three NAFO stocks (3NO cod, 3LNO yellowtail flounder and 3LNO American plaice) and the continuing development of the precautionary approach for all stocks in the NAFO area.
		Of particular significance are measures to ensure that automatic vessel identification and positioning information is communicated to Contracting Parties four times a day for further transmission to Canada and the European Union which have an active inspection presence in the NAFO Regulatory Area.
		NAFO was founded in 1978 and provides for the conservation and management of 12 fish stocks comprising of two categories: "straddling" stocks, found both inside Canada’s 200-mile limit and in the adjacent high seas; and "discrete" stocks, found entirely outside the 200-mile limit on the Flemish Cap.
	www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca /media/newsrel/2000/hq-ac93_e.htm (174 words)

	Allrecipes Cook's Encyclopedia flounder
		In America, flounder is often mislabeled as fillet of sole- a misnomer because all of the fish called "sole" (except for imported European DOVER SOLE) are actually varieties of flounder.
		Some of the better known members of the flounder family are DAB, ENGLISH SOLE and PLAICE.
		Members of this large species of FLATFISH are prized for their fine texture and delicate flavor.
	allrecipes.com /advice/ref/ency/terms/6514.asp (104 words)

	North Sea Skate Has Been 'Driven to Extinction'
		The skate, a large long-tailed flatfish, is one of a number of demersal or bottom-dwelling North Sea species, including sole and plaice, that are particularly vulnerable to beam-trawling, a fishing method that involves churning up the seabed.
		The European Union's Common Fisheries Policy is due for review this year and there are increasing calls for it to include radical cutbacks in the size of the EU fishing fleet, by as much as half.
		The thornback ray, Raja clavata, "has nearly disappeared from the south- eastern North Sea," the report said, while demonstrating that catches of all the main bottom-dwelling species, including cod and haddock, have sharply declined over the past three decades, in some cases by more than half.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/InNews/skate2002.html (104 words)

	United Kingdom
		Marine fishes harvested include Atlantic mackerel, Atlantic herring, cod, haddock, European plaice (various flatfishes, including flounder), Atlantic salmon, whiting, common cockle, and Norway lobster.
		The most common trees are oak, beech, ash, and elm.
		The principal freshwater fish caught is rainbow trout.
	www.ovayonda.biz /lodging/country/gb.html (104 words)

	Tim Worstall: Common Fisheries Policy.
		British ministers justified that on grounds that the Scottish trawler fleet had already been halved and that the fisheries council had cut the langoustine, plaice and sole fisheries, which took a heavy bycatch of juvenile cod.
		I can pretty much guarantee that we wouldn't have this problem if the European Parliament had a say in the matter and fisheries was voted on by QMV, but I can guarantee that the europhobes would be the first to jump up and down with outrage if that were suggested.
		In one of the few measures welcomed by conservationists, ministers decided that the closure of the industrial fishery for sand eels in the North Sea should continue, pending scientific monitoring to see if there were enough eels to justify fishing for them.
	timworstall.typepad.com /timworstall/2005/12/common_fisherie.html (1052 words)

	United Kingdom
		Marine fishes harvested include Atlantic mackerel, Atlantic herring, cod, haddock, European plaice (various flatfishes, including flounder), Atlantic salmon, whiting, common cockle, and Norway lobster.
		The principal freshwater fish caught is rainbow trout.
		In the early 1990s about 628,400 metric tons of fish were caught annually.
	www.ovayonda.biz /lodging/country/gb.html (1052 words)

	Pleuronectiformes, Pleuronectidae
		In European waters the flatfishes fall into three natural groups or families: the Bothidae, including the brill and turbot, the Pleuronectidae (plaice, flounder, dab and halibut being examples) and the Soleidae or soles.
		The three families can be distinguished by the following notes, but beware of reversed specimens.
	home.planet.nl /~zoete004/pleuronectiform.htm (1052 words)

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