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.