double sided flounder

i would guess that its ectopic overexpression of pigmentation genes due to inheritnace of some rare recessive allele either that or a point or deletion mutation in the genes of the skin cells from some recombination error during the embryonic state or exposure to an external mutagen.

yes thats right i am a geneticist har har.

go ahead matey,get it outa ya,very well put. 8) dude

all genetics is gibberish :D

wat a weird fish!! well done! :D

get them showing up quite regular here too, i had one on waterfoot the other weekend too.

wonder if anybody has tasted them yet :wink: :D

wonder if anybody has tasted them yet :wink: :D

eat it.youd end up glowing in the dark......ivan

we actully caught it beside the roadstone quarry on arklow south beach
.and me mate ate it come to think of it i havent heard anything from him maybe it killed him :P

I stopped fishing Barrystown (Bannow) when I started catching mutant flounder. They had large whitish blotchy growths. Yuk. Didn't have the stomach to keep fishing for them, regardless of whether I was going to eat them.