REVIEW OF SOME FISH RE30URCES WITHIN THE NEAFC CONVENTION AREA

In general all sole stocks are restricted to wide coastal areas and seldom occur at distances over 200 miles from the coast. The main component of the North-East Atlantic sole population is distributed in the North Sea south of 57°N. A smaller stock is found in the .Kattegat. The North Sea sole stock consists of a number of separate spawning sub-populations which spawn in the waters close to the coasts of.Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands.