TIMES RECORD • August 9, 2023
Fluke is the common name of a summer flounder, one of the many very flat fish that live in the Gulf of Maine. Their close relative, the winter flounder, which spends the colder months closer to shore and doesn’t do the same type of seasonal migration. One thing they do have in common, however, is that at some point during their development, both fluke and flounder end up with two eyes on the same sides of their bodies. The difference, however, is that flukes end up with their eyes on the left side of their body and flounders end up with their eyes on the right. ~ Susan Olcott