Research is underway at one university in the East to better understand the behavior of one species of fish that is not only important to the coastal marine ecosystem but also fisheries. Ph.D.

Over the past four years, Texas' flounder population has boomed, and with it, the number of flatfish caught by Texas anglers. Between Sept.1, 2011, and Aug. 31, 2012, Texas anglers caught and kept ...

Texas' struggling flounder fishery received a modest but welcomed boost a little more than a week ago when state coastal fisheries staff released about 5,000 fingerling flatfish into the winter-cooled ...

HOUSTON (AP) - Ryan Macias and Grant Lewis methodically unfurled a low-slung net stretched between two poles and began dragging it across the bottom of Matagorda Bay one cloudy morning in early May.

While the stock of winter flounder, as a whole, is recovering from overexploitation, the populations in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, and Niantic River, Connecticut, remain depleted. Elevated water ...

A master of disguise, the Southern flounder is no longer considered a sought-after fish. Fewer anglers today chase the flatfish than ever before. Although very good tablefare, flounder fishing does ...

DURHAM, N.H. – Winter flounder – sold in markets as flounder or lemon sole – in the Gulf of Maine went into serious decline in the 1980s, taking with it a major commercial and recreational fishery.

In the wild and in the lab, researchers find a relationship between higher water temperature and a lower percentage of female flounder, a cause for concern. If southern flounder live in warmer water ...