Smaller quota increases are urged for mackerel and hake, while small reductions are called for with plaice, blue whiting and sole.

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But the environmental group WWF says EU fisheries have also faced a 32% decline in stocks of cod, plaice and sole since 1993.

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This East End fish shop dishes out haddock, plaice and rock eel, among other white fish, in a restaurant with Formica tables and a 1950s jukebox.

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Cod, haddock, plaice, salmon and prawns dominate the British diet.

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He was always on the lookout for the funny names they gave to hairdressers and fishmongers and so on: A Cut Above, The Plaice to Go, that sort of thing.

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On Southend Pier, the world's longest, which ends after 1.34 miles in water so deep that flounder, mackerel, cod and plaice can be caught in it, a grey August day finds knots of anglers at every shelter.

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The 120 ton (110 tonne) sidewinder trawler would spend upwards of a week at a time in the North Sea catching cod, plaice and haddock, initially for local fishing family WH Podd, but it last sailed in the late 1980s.

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