It provides a nursery for plaice, possibly, but it certainly does not do so for other types of fish.
The odd thing is that plaice and sole react to this warmed water, but turbot apparently do not.
Considerable progress has been made in developing means of successfully rearing plaice and sole.
Unfortunately, however, plaice would not be economically viable in commercial terms if reared by fish farming methods.
But due to the lower price, it is difficult for the plaice farmers to recover their expenses of production.
There is no destruction of plaice whatever by commercial trawlers in deep water.
We now have international quota systems for sole and plaice catches.
It is difficult to see how this proposition would affect the plaice beds.
