To track winter flounder, researchers look to ear bones

Thursday, August 27, 2015 - 21:50 in Biology & Nature

Researchers are turning to an unusual source -- otoliths, the inner ear bones of fish -- to identify the nursery grounds of winter flounder, the protected estuaries where the potato chip-sized juveniles grow to adolescence. The research could aid the effort to restore plummeting winter flounder populations along the East Coast of the US.

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