Report of the North Sea Flatfish Working Group

the North Sea Flatfish Working Group will meet. for five days, 22 - 26 January 1973, to continue its studies of the flatfish stocks in the North Sea and to consider in particular the effects of the increase in effort exerted by beam trawlers, the effects of a possible increase in.the minimum size of plaice, and to investigate, if possible, the mortality rate of discarded fish. The Irish Sea and Bristol Channel sole should be studied in conjunction with the North Sea sole.