American plaice
hippoglssoides platessoides latin

For example, American plaice reach the minimum size for landing (14 in.)

Also commercially important is the American plaice.

Cod and American plaice are particularly endangered here and the numbers of redfish have shown a significant decline.

American plaice are an Atlantic species.

Like many flatfish, American plaice are sometimes said to be a flounder or dab, even though both are names for other fish species.

American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) are salt water fish that live in the northwest Atlantic Ocean.

Ecological status of American plaice (Marine Conservation Society)

Hippoglossoides platessoides (American plaice)

American plaice feed on sand dollars, brittle stars, crustaceans, polychaetes, and fish such as capelin and launce.

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

American plaice information (National Marine Fisheries Service (Canada))

The American plaice or sole, Hippoglossoides platessoides, is a flatfish that belongs, along with other right-eyed flounders, to the Pleuronectidae family.

American plaice information (Northeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.))

The U.K.-based Marine Conservation Society rates American plaice as 5, the most threatened category of over-harvested animals.

American plaice may be an intermediate host for the nematode parasite Otostrongylus circumlitis, which is a lungworm of seals, primarily affecting animals less than 1 yr of age.

By the time I had tasted blackbacks (winter flounder or bluebacks) and dabs (American plaice), both delicious when poached in a tomato sauce, I considered myself something of a flatfish expert.

Trawling surveys begin to sample small American plaice during their first year of life, thus allowing five estimates of the relative numbers of small plaice in the population before animals are large enough to land.

He contends that the cod population is still only a third of what it should be and that the populations of white hake, American plaice and redfish, also known as ocean perch, are also severely depressed.

I am referring to the responsibility we all share for managing marine resources, in accordance with rules accepted by all parties to guarantee that such resources are preserved and that ours will not be the last generation to see cod, redfish or American plaice.

The Grand Banks has been so badly overfished by everyone, including Canadians, that the 15-member North Atlantic Fisheries Organization has suspended harvesting from numerous stocks - among them northern cod, American plaice, witch flounder and yellowtail flounder.