European plaice
pleuronectes platessa latin

The arms show four European plaice on a red background.

European plaice have been fished from the North Sea for hundreds of years.

European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) is the name for a kind of fish.

European plaice are characterised by their smooth brown skin, with distinctive red spots and bony ridge behind the eyes.

In 2010, Greenpeace International has added the European plaice to its seafood red list.

Commercially the most important plaice is the European plaice.

The European plaice, Pleuronectes platessa, is a commercially important flatfish.

Together with sole, European plaice form a group of flatfish that are the most important flatfish in Europe.

They are brown or reddish, and are generally smaller than European plaice with a rougher skin and larger scales.

Today mainly mackerel, Atlantic cod, whiting, coalfish, European plaice, and sole are caught.

Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice)

The European plaice is characterised above by their darkgreen to darkbrown skin, blotched with conspicuous, but irregularly distributed, orange spots.

This species has more specific habitat requirements than other widespread Atlantic flatfish such as the European plaice, common sole, and common dab.

The European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) is a right-eyed flounder belonging to the Pleuronectidae family.

Like the European plaice, the American plaice is also a right eyed flatfish belonging to the Pleuronectidae family.

Occasional Common dab and European plaice were caught with lugworm or ragworm from the beach, although the worm population of the beach has always been small.

LCDV-1 infects European flounder Platichthys flesus and European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa).

The geographical range of the European plaice is off all coasts from the Barents Sea to the Mediterranean, also in the Northeast Atlantic and along Greenland.

They include many important commercially fished species, including not only the various fish called flounders, but also the European plaice, the halibuts, the lemon sole, the common dab, the Pacific Dover sole, and the flukes.

European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) is the name for a kind of fish.

The European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) is a right-eyed flounder belonging to the Pleuronectidae family.