FLOUNDER

or Flatfish, a fish with a flattened body and both eyes on the upper, generally more highly colored, side. The type includes small fishes such as the Da , the highly valued European Sore, and large creatures such as the Hauiur, Puatce, and Tursor (all of which are treated under their own heads). In specific market usage the title ‘“‘flounder’’ and its variant ‘‘flatfish’’ are con- 7 fined to the smaller members of the group, found at the mouths of rivers and along the coast. The flesh of several varieties is excellent—-the fish being often skinned, filleted, and served as ‘‘sole.’”’ The most important are the Arctic and Wel-back flounders of northern latitudes; the greyish-brown Pale flounder, or Craig fluke, south to Cape Cod; the wlnite-spotted, light olive-brown Summer flounder, or ‘*nlaice,’’ from Cape Cod to the Carol in as; the similar Southern flounder, from Charleston southward, and around the Gulf; and the Great, or Starry, flounder of the Pacific Coast. The Summer, Southern, and Great flounders reach in large specimens a weight of fifteen pounds or more; the others range from very small—five to the pound—to five pounds each.