The fecundity of plaice from the south and west coasts of Ireland

Abstract

This paper is the fifth in a series dealing with the fecundity of flatfish (Bagenal, 1957a, b; 1958, i960), and is concerned with the numbers of eggs in, the roes of ripening female plaice Pleuronectes platessa L. caught off the south and west coasts of Ireland during November and December 1958. The fish were obtained from Wexford, Ballycotton, Schull, Dingle, Galway and Killybegs (Fig. 1).