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Food habits of winter flounder in Woods Hole Harbor

FOREWORD This document stems from research conducted more than three decades ago. For reasons of workload and work priorities, the research results were not reported at that time. Through the gracious efforts of the senior author-who has long since retired from the federal government-the results of that research have now been analyzed and have been reported in this document. The priority for research on winter flounder has changed since the beginning of the 1960s. The species is still highly prized by commercial and recreational fishermen in the Northeast, but it is one of several in the region which has endured more than a decade and a half of overfishing. Furthermore, because of the species' ubiquitous distribution throughout the region's marine and estuarine environments, combined with the occurrence of many, highly localized, coastal populations of the species, the winter flounder has become a "sentinel" species for monitoring and evaluating the effects of pollutants on living marine resources. Because of the winter flounder's current dual status as an overfished and sentinel species, the basic biological information in this document is both useful and timely for the region's fishery researchers and managers.