RV Platessa the central basin. The RV "Platessa" (LT205) was in service with Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom) from April 1946 until June 1967, during which time she participated in more than 473 separate research campaigns. She was primarily confined to the southern North Sea, but with occasional forays into the Irish Sea and English Channel, especially in the 1960s. The RV "Platessa" (LT205) was overwhelmingly dedicated to research on North Sea herring and North Sea Plaice. This work included the tagging of more than 12,000 plaice during the 1950s, 7000 during the 1960s. In addition, large numbers of
Pseudorhombus arsius Pseudorhombus arsius Pseudorhombus arsius, the largetooth flounder, is a species of left-eyed flatfish, that is the dark side with the eyes on the adult fish is the left side of the fish's body, from the family Paralichthyidae. As "Rhombus polyspilos" it was named as the type species of the genus "Pseudorhombus". It is an Indo-Pacific species and is fished for by both recreational and commercial fisheries. "Pseudorhombus arsius" has an oval-shaped body which has a depth which is 1.8 to 2.3 times its standard length. The head has a slight notch in front of upper eye. The eyes are on