summer flounder
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of summer flounder
An Americanism dating back to 1805–15
Example Sentences
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Winkler’s attorneys Richard Levitt and Peter Smith said the case was based on outdated limits on fluke, also known as summer flounder.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
It is eager to hold onto its summer flounder quota, even if that now means the commercial fleet motors to New Jersey and back to find fish.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 3, 2014
And the bottom trawl surveys conducted since the 1960s show that the center of the summer flounder population has moved northward at roughly 19 miles per decade for the past 40 years.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 3, 2014
The National Marine Fisheries Service reduced the 2006 quota for summer flounder to 23.59 million pounds to stay on course with the stock goal for 2010.
From Time Magazine Archive
In addition, one can get perch, porpoise, eels, leatherjackets, summer flounder, turbot, mullet, trout, blackfish, herring, sole, garfish, etc.
From The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia by Wharton, James
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