Report of the Irish Sea and Bristol Channel Working Group

Because of overlap with the Mackerel Working Group, M J Gu􀄭guen was unable to participate in the latter part of the meeting. The Celtic Sea sole assessment (Section 8), which has always been based almost entirely on Belgian data, was carried out after the meeting by Dr R· De Clerck at the Station de P􀅜che Maritime, Ostende. Because of some ambiguities in the information telexed to the Working Group, which could not be adequately resolved in the absence of a Belgian participant, the Working Group agreed (with the approval of the General Secretary) to ask Dr De Clerck, as a member of the Working Group, to carry out this task.