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The average depth of commercial trawls in the
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The thickback sole has the typical slender, elongated, oval body shape of soles but which is thick from side to side. It has a smoothly rounded snout. small head with a strongly curved mouth on its underside. They have large eyes which have a diameter which is greater than the length of the snout.
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with the one on the blind side being minute. The eyed side is brown in colour with five transverse black bands which reach to the dorsal and anal fins creating dark patches on these fins. The largest fish recorded had a
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but from late winter and spring to early autumn off
Ireland. They can live for up to 14 year. The young thickback sole develop in open-sea nurseriesand settle into a benthic mode at a relatively young age compared to
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The thickback sole is not utilized in fisheries in the central eastern
Atlantic but in the Mediterranean it is a commercially exploited species and is regularly observed in markets in Morocco, the
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FMIB 47584 Solea variegata - Larva of
Thickback Newly hatched, April 24, 1889 Pigment as seen by reflected light yk- yolk (1); Solea
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The thickback sole occurs in the northeast
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Saltwater Fishes of Britain and Europe
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229:Pleuronectes microchirus
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161:M. variegatus
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418:Fisheries
383:amphipods
299:from the
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