Administrative Report of DFC

Continuation of the Wadden Sea sampling programme along the German coast with special reference to juvenile plaice, sole, dab, flounder, cod, haddock and whiting (joint demersal young fish survey in collaboration with Holland and Belgium). The market sampling (length distribution, otoliths) on demersal fish species from the North Sea and the North Atlantic was continued. Sampling of data as length measurements, otoliths, sex, maturity stages, etc. on board commercial and rese?.rch vessels was continued as in the the previous years.