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Danes and Swedes are among the greatest enthusiasts for plaice, and the former at least prefer to buy their plaice alive.
I'm talking flat fish, Lemon sole, Dover sole, plaice, dabs, witch, turbot, halibut, brill and skate.
We ate prawn cocktails and plaice and chips and cheesecake and drank champagne and watched the hare coursers do their business.
We have had plaice from here but there are also large eels and loads of wrasse if you fish close to the rocks.
As a youngster he fished off the rocks for the usual species of cod, pollack, coley, wrasse, mackerel and dogfish with the odd plaice or eel.
There wasn't a fish shop for miles, although the local supermarket was full of breaded plaice and battered scampi.
Thornback and blond rays are most often seen, with brill, plaice, sole, flounder and even turbot on occasion.
The weather has been good and the vessels have had catches of whiting haddock, monkfish, and plaice.
For the improvement of stocks like whiting, haddock and plaice it is essential that discarding be reduced.
This follows a high-level scientific report saying fishing for cod, haddock and plaice must be halved or they will disappear.
When a customer came in and ordered haddock or plaice he was visibly nicer to them.
The advice given is that there should be zero fishing for cod, whiting, haddock, plaice, sole and prawns in the Irish Sea.
The fish is apparently a plaice or at least a flatfish of some sort, but, to be perfectly honest, it looks more like a dolphin.
Fished in good weather and sea conditions, over eighteen different species were landed from plaice and haddock to cod and whiting.
Commercial fishing includes salmon, herring, cod, plaice, crustaceans and mollusks, mackerel, sprat, eel, lobster, shrimp, and prawns.
The World Wildlife Fund has now warned that haddock, cod, plaice and lemon sole could soon disappear from British waters.
Conger to over 50 lb, pollack, bass, rays, sole, plaice, bream, mullet, garfish, wrasse, tope, cod and probably a few others I've forgotten.
We ate prawn cocktails and plaice and chips, drank champagne and watched the racing.
We have had plaice, pollack, wrasse and garfish from here but bass and rays are also taken.
In this case there have been endless erudite discussions about the advantages or otherwise of the long flowing trace for plaice fishing.
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Our fish was always plaice, and it was often plaice that had known better days.
The question had caught her at a moment when her mouth was overfull of fried plaice and potatoes.
The flounder, the plaice, and the dab, are all examples of this group of fishes.
Are you ready for your cutlet now, sir, and all that plaice left in the dish?
For, as I said, I felt sooner or laiter there'd trouble come of 'is 'auntink the plaice.
The sea supplied abundance of salmon, trout, cod, and plaice.
The sailors had caught some plaice which were for the guests in the cabin.
Large quantities of herring, plaice and halibut are also taken.
The fish tasted as if it had just leapt from the sea, though in the equivalent of a tastebud photo-finish I preferred my youngest's cod to my own plaice and my wife's haddock.
And Nigel landed this super 6lb 1oz plaice on the last drift of the day.
Other potential growth areas could be gurnard, a UK fish that is largely exported to France, and flatfishes witch and megrim, which could provide a good alternative to plaice.
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