![]() Lemon sole (a large winter flounder fillet) from our northeast coast is delicious, but not a true sole. For example, when you see the name “sole” at the market, it’s probably going to really be a type of flounder. There are soft mouthed flatfish like yellowtail flounder and grey sole that feed on the bottom and toothy flounders like flukes (summer flounder) that eat other fish.Ī huge family that includes so many fine food fish is bound to have some misleading and downright erroneous labeling. Some flatfish are right eyed with their mouths on the left and some are left eyed, all true soles are right eyed. If you could see the way they gracefully move along, invisible to predators, agile and fast, their bodies like one big fin capable of quick bursts of speed, you would see a perfectly adapted fish. Some would wonder how such a freak could evolve into a family of 500. The top side will be dark and blend in with the sea floor, some species even change colors, the bottom side is white, to blend in with the surface when swimming off the bottom. ![]() When first born they look like normal fish swimming upright, but soon one eye will “migrate” to the other side and the fish will flop down on it’s side. One thing that they all have in common is they all have both eyes on the same side of their head. Soles, flounders and halibut are familiar to most of us but dabs, plaice, brill, toungefish, turbot, are all different types of flatfish. There are 11 families and 500 species, 130 of them are native to America. The world of flatfish is vast, varied and confusing.
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