Bronx River Education

Flounder found

August 19, 2009

Wednesday’s visit to Barretto Point Park to provide some waterfront education and canoeing was a great success. We were only there for a couple of hours but more than 20 people were able to canoe in the East River and learn about what lurks beneath the waves.

After a quick seining  brought up dozens of silver sides ( thousands escaped), another fish caught my eye.  It was a little harder to corral than the silversides, but  a concerted effort landed a juvenile flounder (summer flounder?). On the bottom of the shore, the camoflague helped the fish absolutely disappear, but in my hand it looks quite alien.

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