Annual catches of sardine (left) and anchovy (right) by the French fishery based on the SACROIS product. The Bay of Biscay includes the sardine catches from the statistical rectangles 25E4 and 25E5 located in 27.7 but considered part of the Bay of Biscay stock. The English Channel and North Sea catches are considered together when discussed in the text, given the spatial continuity of the French fishing activity in the eastern Channel–southern North Sea area (see Fig. 3).