summer flounder

But summer flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, are plentiful in season on the East Coast, from Massachusetts south to the Carolinas, and I’ve picked off my share of them.

Examples include Alaska plaice sold as summer flounder and channel catfish as Chesapeake Bay catfish.

This allows for the commercial harvest of any of the five species of restricted finfish, summer flounder, scup, striped bass, black sea bass and tautog.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says vessels are prohibited from bringing summer flounder to the docks in Massachusetts for the remainder of the fishing year.

Black sea bass and summer flounder, once common in the southeast, had moved into the waters off Massachusetts, where local fishing boats could take but a scant few.