Consultation on the proposed Southern North Sea and Eastern Channel Mixed Flatfish Fisheries Management Plan (FMP)

The purpose of this consultation is to seek your views on the proposed Southern North Sea and Eastern Channel mixed Flatfish Fisheries Management Plan (FMP) and the policies and proposed measures it contains. We are also seeking your views on the likely environmental impacts of the FMP set out in the environmental report. The Flatfish FMP applies to lemon sole, witch, turbot, brill, dab, flounder, Atlantic halibut, plaice and sole in English waters within International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) areas 4b, 4c and 7d. The plan has been informed by the biological, social and economic evidence currently available for the flatfish stocks life history, stock assessment and fishing and management practices. The FMP lays out all the existing management and measures in place and sets out the principles for managing to Maximum Sustainable Yield for quota stocks, as well as some measures, short and long-term goals to mana