Habitat: Demersal Main role: Predator Trophic level: 4
Diet: The main preys are polychaetes and meiofauna, but large specimens also eat small fish such as gobies and dragonets.
Threats: Highly commercial. Sole is mainly caught in the southern North Sea and off the Danish coast. In the English fishery, the high value of sole makes it one of the most important species targeted by inshore vessels using trawls and fixed nets. Sole is also taken as a target and by-catch species by offshore beam- and otter-trawlers and gillnetters.
The flatfish group includes the following species: witch, long-rough dab, flounder, lemon sole, turbot, brill, megrim, halibut, sole, plaice and dab.
Flatfish is a month-by-month, computer generated data layer following calculations made by the ecosystem simulation (EwE).
Different pressures generate by human activities (noise, bottom disturbance, surface disturbance, artificial substrate) have different, complex effects on marine species in terms of movement, survival and procreation.
Flatfish are caught by all fishing fleets, but mostly by industrial and pelagic trawl.
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