Smooth, Yellow tail Flounders 



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Smooth Flounder 

 Liopsetta putnami (Gill) 



Color: Eyed side: gray, gray-brown, black-brown. Blind 

 side: white. 



Distribution: Labrador to Cape Cod and as a stray south 

 to Rhode Island. 



Size: Reaches a length of about one foot and a weight of 

 \V2 pounds. 



General Information: The Smooth Flounder is most com- 

 monly found living on the bottom in sheltered bays, har- 

 bors, and river mouths, usually in depths of from 10 to 30 

 feet. It spawns in winter and like the blackback flounder 

 probably feeds mostly on small invertebrates. 

 Economic Importance: A good food fish, but neither large 

 nor plentiful enough to be important in the commercial 

 fisheries. 



Yellowtail Flounder 

 Limanda ferruginea (Storer) 



Color: Eyed side: brown or olive-gray tinged with red, 

 with scattered large irregular brown-red spots. Blind side: 

 white, yellowish about caudal peduncle. 



