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  Fish - Summer Flounder
Most summer flounder inhabit Chesapeake Bay in the summer and move offshore to depths of 120 to 600 feet of water during the fall and winter.
Flounder are more common the deep channels of the lower Bay than in the upper Bay, extending as far north as the Gunpowder River.
During metamorphosis, the right eye of the larval flounder gradually migrates to the left side of the head–the feature distinguishing summer flounder from winter flounder, whose eyes are on the right side–and the body takes on the flattened appearance that it retains as an adult fish.
www.chesapeakebay.net /info/summer_flounder.cfm   (615 words)

  
  Flounder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Flounder are flatfish that live ocean waters in Northern European waters and along the east coast of the United States and Canada.
Flounder lie on their left sides on the ocean floor; in adulthood, both eyes are situated on the right, upward-facing side of its body, and are aligned along a roughly 70° angle.
The flounder feeding ground is the soft mud of the sea bottom, near bridge spiles, docks, and other bottom incumbrances; they are sometimes found on bass grounds as well.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flounder   (335 words)

  
 Flounder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The flounder is of a dark color with both eyes being on the same side gauged to look upwards at an angle about one-fifth forward from perpendicular.
The existence of bony flatfish such as the flounder are cited by Richard Dawkins in The Blind Watchmaker as an example in favor of the theory of evolution.
The flounder found a niche at the sea floor - either by accident or was driven to it by competition.
www.aaaah.org /wiki/en/fl/Flounder.htm   (488 words)

  
 Flounder
Flounder culture is totally based on the hatchery seeds, and is mostly practiced in the flow-through system of land-based facilities.
Flounder eggs are 0.83 to 1.1 mm in diameter.
Flounders accept dry formulated feeds well and convert them efficiently, the feed conversion ratio (the weight of distributed feed per unit weight gain) being equal to 1:1 or a little more.
www.lib.noaa.gov /korea/main_species/flounder.htm   (1845 words)

  
 FLOUNDER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The winter flounder spends its adult life in the ocean during the summer, but moves into estuaries in the winter, where it spawns in late winter/ early spring.
Winter flounder produce both a white and a gray fillet from each fish, but both turn pure white when cooked, as will the fillets from the summer flounder.
Flounder are a highly desirable food fish, renowned for their fine, tender, yet firm texture.
www.ocean.udel.edu /mas/seafood/flounder.html   (367 words)

  
 Summer Flounder
Flounder are bottom-dwelling creatures which use their flattened shape and ability to change coloration and pattern on the eyed side of their bodies to partially burrow in the sediment, lie in ambush and wait for their prey.
Upon reaching the estuaries, larval flounder undergo metamorphosis and their eyes gradually migrate to the left side of the head and the body takes on a flattened appearance.
Flounder landed in Maryland are primarily harvested in offshore coastal waters by otter trawls.
www.dnr.state.md.us /fisheries/education/flounder/flounder.html   (794 words)

  
 Flounder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The flounder is vulnerable to this technique because it often enters the shallows at night to feed.
Once the flounder is within the light from the lantern, normally it will not move, affording the fisher a chance to "gig" the fish.
During the fall, when flounder are moving to the Gulf for spawning, the best catches are made in the channels and passes leading to the Gulf.
www.northendbaitandtackle.com /id20.html   (1283 words)

  
 Summer Flounder | Winter Flounder | Flounder Gigging
Summer flounder are found in coastal waters from Florida to the southern Gulf of Maine.
The smaller and medium-sized flounder tend to stay on muddy and sandy bottoms of bays and harbors along the open coastline.
Summer flounder migrates to water with depths of 150-500 feet as the cooler weather approaches.
www.seafoodplus.info /flounder-species.php   (444 words)

  
 Flounder
Flounder (SS-251) was launched 22 August 1943 by Electric Boat Co., Groton, Conn.; sponsored by Mrs.
Flounder arrived at Milne Bay, New Guinea, from New London 5 March 1944, and 11 days later sailed on her first war patrol, bound for the Palaus.
Flounder cleared Brisbane on her third war patrol 1 August 1944, and after calling at Manus 8 and 9 August, sailed on to serve as lifeguard during strikes on the Philippines.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/f3/flounder.htm   (745 words)

  
 Interactions Between Released and Wild Japanese Flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) on a Nursery Ground
The mean density of the wild flounder in the research area between mid-July, after the end of settling, and mid-August, before the beginning of the emigrating, was used as the population size index of that year.
The population size index of the flounder was 2.4 in 1989, 5.4 in 1990, 7.2 in 1991, and 2.0 in 1992.
The number of captured wild flounder along the release line was low or decreased rapidly after the release and increased as the the density of released flounder decreased except for 1992, when the population size of wild flounder was relatively small (Fig.
www.lib.noaa.gov /japan/aquaculture/report22/fuji.html   (3038 words)

  
 NEW YORK SEAFOOD COUNCIL: ABOUT SEAFOOD: FLOUNDER
Flounder are caught by both commercial and recreational fisherman throughout much of the year, but some species are caught more frequently at certain times of the year.
Winter flounder are most abundant during the colder months of the year, and during their seasonal migration in the spring to cooler ocean waters and again in the fall as they move back to coastal waters.
Flounder are born upright with normally-placed eyes which migrate to one side while the fish is about 1/2 inch long.
www.nyseafood.org /about/flounder.asp   (779 words)

  
 Panhandle Flounder Fishing
In fact, the flounder were once so important commercially that local fish houses refused to buy from shrimpers that dragged in the bay because of the flounder by-kill.
The biggest flounder taken at the Cut are usually caught with live bait on the bottom immediately next to the rocks on the outside of the jetties.
Flounder also tend to move closer to the shoreline during high tide, especially in the tidal creeks when the baitfish move up into the grass for protection.
www.floridasportsman.com /regions/ph/R_9808_Flatties/index1.html   (1252 words)

  
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Although flounder can be gigged in almost any portion of the shoreline, it is more often productive to gig around jetties, oyster reefs or sandbars that extend from shore into the bay.
Flounder do not swim continuously, so they tend to accumulate in such places in their search for food.
Our Charter boat, the Flounder Barge, is complete with a 16-mile Radar, Night Vision, GPS, a full pilot cabin for weather protection and is powered by a very-quiet 90 horsepower Honda 4-stroke outboard and is Coast Guard safety rated.
www.floundergigging.com   (654 words)

  
 NY/NJ Species: Flounder
The winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus, formerly classified as Pseudopleuronectes americanus) is a flatfish with right-eye orientation.
Maturity in winter flounder is based on size; fish in warmer waters mature years before their northern counterparts (Buckley 1989).
Winter flounder are also susceptible to changes in water temperature, and human activities that create artificially high temperatures can have a large impact on the species (Grosslein and Azarovitz 1982).
www.csc.noaa.gov /lcr/nyharbor/html/gallery/sgflound.html   (891 words)

  
 The Little Mermaid (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ursula decides that now is the time to make her move, and she assigns her pet eels Flotsam and Jetsam (both voiced by Paddi Edwards) to bring Ariel to her underwater cave.
Sebastian and Flounder bring the drowning and helpless Ariel to the surface, where she takes her first breath of air in one of Disney's most memorable shots.
Flounder and Sebastian help her to the beach, where she is taken in by Eric.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Little_Mermaid_(movie)   (2260 words)

  
 STARRY FLOUNDER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Along the coasts of Washington, Oregon and California, 50% of all starry flounder are right-eyed and 50% are left-eyed.
Because the starry flounder is dependent on estuaries, it is negatively affected by pollution and the destruction of wetland and estuarine habitat.
Starry flounder are impacted by wetland draining and filling for shoreline developments, by polluted run-off from urban and agricultural lands, and by municipal and industrial waste discharges.
www.psmfc.org /habitat/edu_flounder_fact.html   (353 words)

  
 South Carolina Coastal Flounder Fishing
Flounder, of course, are one of the few fishes in the world that are flat and have both eyes on one side of their bodies.
Flounder know this, so they use their camouflage and eyesight to lie in wait for baitfish to drift too close.
He's not sure whether the flounder are there all the time and suddenly turn on in the presence of bait, or whether flounder will eventually move into "empty" structure if the angler waits long enough.
www.scgameandfish.com /fishing/saltwater-fishing/sc_aa064803a   (2416 words)

  
 Fish of the Gulf of Mexico brought to you by RodnReel.com
Flounders, like other fish, hatch with one eye on each side of their head.
Southern flounder are well adapted for ambushing quick-moving prey such as fish or shrimp.
One research project in Texas reported southern flounders to be the dominant fish predator on brown shrimp during the spring in Galveston Bay.
www.rodnreel.com /gulffish/gulffish.asp?cmd=view&FishID=35   (786 words)

  
 Sand flounder
The sand flounder is a year-round resident off the southern New England coast, and probably this applies to it in the Gulf of Maine also, there being no evidence that the adults carry out any migrations inshore or offshore, with the change of the seasons.
The adult sand flounder is necessarily attuned to a wide temperature, occurring as it does over many degrees of latitude, and in shallow waters where it is exposed to the extremes of winter chilling and of summer warming.
The sand flounder is much more plentiful west of Cape Cod than it is anywhere in the Gulf of Maine, southward at least to Chesapeake Bay, where it is very generally distributed in depths down to 25 fathoms, especially in the southern part.
www.gma.org /fogm/Lophopsetta_maculata.htm   (2340 words)

  
 Maryland Summer Flounder Fishing
Scheible was obviously referring to the great increase in the minimum size limit for recreationally caught summer flounder, an increase in size that over a five-year period, went from 12 to 17 inches.
Walters also found large flounder lurking along the dropoff situated at the northern end of The Diamonds, which is clearly marked by green-colored buoy 7.
There are also good numbers of flounder along the bay's western channel edge also, and most of the time, there's no one fishing there.
www.midatlanticgameandfish.com /fishing/saltwater-fishing/at_aa080503a   (2789 words)

  
 Flounder Recipes
Broil flounder for 4 to 6 minutes, or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
Place flounder on top of the vegetables, cover, and microwave on high for 5 minutes, or until the fish flakes easily.
Add flounder to the hot butter mixture in the skillet; cover and cook 5 to 8 minutes, until flounder flakes easily when tested with a fork.
www.bassonhook.com /fishforfood/flounderrecipes.html   (1937 words)

  
 Flounder
Flounder are flatfish that live on the bottom of the ocean.
Most flounders are small, and thus the fish is generally sold whole, fresh or frozen, trimmed of head and fin bones.
When well-wrapped, flounder can be frozen for up to two months in a refrigerator and for three to four months in a deep-freeze.
www.pccnaturalmarkets.com /health/Food_Guide/Flounder.htm   (1044 words)

  
 FLOUNDER GIGGING BASICS
Flounder gigging is a sport that combines aspects of both fishing and hunting.
Empty flounder beds are usually a good sign that the fish are still in the area.
Quickly pull the flounder up with your weak hand, and pivot the gig with your strong hand so that the flounder and spearhead are now up in the air.
www.tx-outdoors.com /saltwater_central/active_content/display_content.asp?id=61   (1964 words)

  
 FishVictoria.com - Flounder
Often confused with sole, flounders change colour quickly to suit their environment and are taken by spearing and with very light tackle as they sit on sandy bottoms and muddy inshore areas feeding on worms, crustaceans and small shellfish.
Flounders swim with both eyes upwards and, in Australia, seldom exceed about 38cm in length and 0.6kg.
SIZE: The greenback flounder is one of the largest and most abundant in Victorian waters, reaching 38cm and 0.6kg.
www.fishvictoria.com /fishvic/pfish/pmarine/flounder.php   (250 words)

  
 Flounder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Gulf Flounder has the ability to change its color and shape in order to appear a part of its surrounding.
The flounder's teeth have the strength of a dog and use them in order to catch small marine animals like shrimp or other small fish.
By adapting, the flounder has proved that it can survive in the harsh conditions of the ocean.
www.fcps.k12.va.us /westspringfieldhs/academic/science/bjewell/ocean/adapt/floun/floun.shtml   (212 words)

  
 Flounder
A number of different species of flatfish or flounder are found in coastal and ocean waters along the entire Atlantic coast of the U.S. Three of the most common flounder species in the Northeast are the Winter or Blackback flounder, the Summer flounder or Fluke, and the Yellowtail flounder.
The peak commercial harvest of Summer flounder or Fluke occurs during the annual migration north in August and September and again as they migrate south in January and February.
Winter flounder are commercially harvested in New York throughout most of the year, and are most abundant from April to June as they migrate out into deeper water and again in the months of November and December as they migrate back into coastal waters.
www.yankee3.com /Fish/flounder.html   (590 words)

  
 Flounder Fishing in Coastal North Carolina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Flounder will also go to deeper water in warmer temperature but seldom deeper than around 20 feet.
Flounder gigging, while not discussed here, is a very productive and popular method of taking them also.
It is much better if the baitfish will swim near the Flounder's ambush than it is to have dead or inactive bait and make the Flounder come after it.
www.ncfishandgame.com /fish/flounder.html   (952 words)

  
 Status of Fisheries Resources off Northeastern United States - Winter Flounder
The winter flounder, flback, or lemon sole, Pseudopleuronectes americanus, is distributed in the Northwest Atlantic from Labrador to Georgia.
Winter flounder undertake small-scale migrations into estuaries, embayments, and saltwater ponds in winter to spawn, subsequently moving to deeper water during summer.
Under the Northeast Multispecies FMP winter flounder are included in a complex of 15 groundfish species which has been managed by time/area closures, gear restrictions, minimum size limits and, since 1994, direct effort controls including a moratorium on permits and and days-at-sea restrictions under Amendments 5 and 7 to the FMP.
www.nefsc.noaa.gov /sos/spsyn/fldrs/winter   (1457 words)

  
 Summer Flounder, general information, reproduction, habitat, food, fishing season, angling tips, handling and cooking.
The summer flounder, or "fluke," a flatfish is found in coastal waters from the southern Gulf of Maine to Florida.
Summer flounder are called the chameleons of the sea because of their ability to change color to match the bottom on which they are found.
Summer flounder can be found on sandy or muddy bottoms in many inshore habitats and are particularly abundant in fast moving rips that gather debris and bait fish.
www.cptdave.com /summer-flounder.html   (1064 words)

  
 Flounder
Flounder is a quick way to visualize regularly spaced 4D data, i.e., a data set that is a function of x, y, z, and time.
Flounder has its origin in a program developed by André Bleau at the University of Montreal called affiche (pronounced a-feesh) which is French for display.
Currently, flounder only supports the IGB image format, a small description of which can be found here in postscript.
www.enel.ucalgary.ca /~vigmond/flounder   (391 words)

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