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Plaice
Hippoglossoides platessoides |
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REASON TO AVOID
American plaice are vulnerable to over-exploitation because of their biology; they are a slow maturing, long-lived species. Many stocks are overfished and are subject to a fishing ban. Avoid eating.
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ADVICE / ALTERNATIVES
The best alternatives to American plaice are European plaice from the North or Irish seas. Dab is also a good alternative and appears on our fish to eat list.
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The following is a list of fish available to the UK and European consumer which have been given a rating of 5 and which MCS believes are most vulnerable to over-fishing and/or are fished using methods which cause damage to the environment or non-target species. The list is in alphabetical order not order of threat or impact. Select a species to find out more. Click here to download the 2008-2009 version of the MCS Pocket Good Fish Guide (Adobe PDF). A new version of this guide will be available soon. |
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| 1. |
Alfonsinos or golden eye perch |
| 2. |
Anchovy (from Bay of Biscay) |
| 3. |
Anglerfish or monkfish or goosefish (from North and Northwest Spain and Portuguese coast) |
| 4. |
Argentine or greater silver smelt |
| 5. |
Black Scabbardfish (from all areas except the Portuguese coast) |
| 6. |
Blue ling |
| 7. |
Brill (from all areas except Baltic Sea) |
| 8. |
Chilean seabass or Patagonian toothfish (from all areas except the South Georgia fishery) |
| 9. |
Cod, Atlantic (Wild caught from all areas except Northeast Arctic, Iceland, and Western Channel, Bristol Channel, Southeast Ireland and Sole) |
| 10. |
Dogfish or spurdog or rock salmon or flake |
| 11. |
Dublin Bay Prawn or langoustine or scampi (from Spain and Portugal) |
| 12. |
Eel, conger |
| 13. |
Eel, European |
| 14. |
Escolar or snake mackerel |
| 15. |
Greater forkbeard |
| 16. |
Grouper |
| 17. |
Haddock (from the Faroes and West of Scotland fisheries) |
| 18. |
Hake, European (Southern stock) |
| 19. |
Halibut, Atlantic (Wild Caught) |
| 20. |
Halibut, Greenland (from Northwest Atlantic and Greenland, Iceland, West of Scotland and Azores) |
| 21. |
Herring or sild (from West of Scotland, West Ireland, and Great Sole fisheries) |
| 22. |
Ling (except handline caught from the Faroes) |
| 23. |
Lobster, American (from Southern New England stocks) |
| 24. |
Marlin, black |
| 25. |
Marlin, blue (from Atlantic longline and purse seine fisheries) |
| 26. |
Marlin, Indo-Pacific blue |
| 27. |
Marlin, white |
| 28. |
Nursehound (from Bay of Biscay and Iberian stocks) |
| 29. |
Orange roughy |
| 30. |
Parrotfish |
| 31. |
Picarel |
| 32. |
Plaice (from the Western Channel, Celtic Sea, Southwest Ireland and West of Ireland stocks) |
| 33. |
Plaice, American or long rough dab |
| 34. |
Prawn, tiger (except organically farmed) |
| 35. |
Ratfish or rabbitfish |
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| 36. |
Ray, blonde |
| 37. |
Ray, sandy |
| 38. |
Ray, shagreen |
| 39. |
Ray, smalleyed (from Bay of Biscay and Iberian stocks) |
| 40. |
Ray, thornback or roker (from Bay of Biscay and Iberian stocks) |
| 41. |
Ray, undulate |
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Red or blackspot seabream |
| 43. |
Redfish or ocean perch |
| 44. |
Roundnose grenadier |
| 45. |
Salmon, Atlantic (Wild Caught) |
| 46. |
Seabass (Pelagic Trawl only) |
| 47. |
Shark, leafscale gulper |
| 48. |
Shark, mako |
| 49. |
Shark, porbeagle |
| 50. |
Shark, siki or Portuguese dogfish |
| 51. |
Shark, tope |
| 52. |
Skate, common |
| 53. |
Skate, longnose |
| 54. |
Skate, Norwegain or black |
| 55. |
Skate, white |
| 56. |
Snapper, cubera |
| 57. |
Snapper, mutton |
| 58. |
Snapper, northern red |
| 59. |
Sole, Dover or common (from North Sea and Irish Sea) |
| 60. |
Starry smoothhound (from Bay of Biscay and Iberian stocks) |
| 61. |
Sturgeon, caviar (Wild Caught) |
| 62. |
Swordfish (Longline and Gillnet fisheries in Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, and Central and Western Pacific) |
| 63. |
Tuna, albacore (Longline and Trawl caught from the North and South Atlantic and the Mediterranean) |
| 64. |
Tuna, bigeye |
| 65. |
Tuna, northern bluefin |
| 66. |
Tuna, Pacific bluefin |
| 67. |
Tuna, southern bluefin |
| 68. |
Turbot (Wild caught) |
| 69. |
Tusk or torsk |
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