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Plaice
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- Many stocks of plaice around the UK are under great pressure. Large, mature plaice are now very rare
- The fishing method used to catch plaice, bottom trawling, is one of the most destructive forms of fishing as it ploughs the sea bed crushing everything in its path
- This method also catches large numbers of immature plaice and high numbers of non-target species. Up to 80% of the total catch is bycatch and thrown dead back in to the sea
