COUNCIL — SEPT. 1910 - APPENDIX I — 104 — 



distribution of the plaice shoals and their composition as regards age and size. It 

 is especially to be regretted, that the measurements from cm. to cm. which were 

 carried out by the research-steamers and other vessels at definitely determined 

 spots of the North Sea, have as yet been only to a very small extent published, 

 as also, that for many countries, e. g. Scotland, market measurements are not at 

 all available. 



In conclusion the General Editor also touched upon the result the General 

 Report would probably come to, with regard to what international size-limit should 

 be imposed for the plaice of the Noi'th Sea. He believed that an international 

 size-limit of 35 cm. should be sought after, but that in the beginning as first 

 experiment a smaller size-limit of 31 to 22 cm. may be sufficient, perhaps with 

 the modification, that a smaller limit may be chosen for plaice landed in the 

 living condition, a higher for dead plaice, or also a higher in the first half of the 

 year, a lower in the second half. 



