double sided flounder

People:me and a mate

Duration:3hrs

Tide:riseing then going

Weather:nice

Bait:crab rag and mackrel

Rigs:pullys

Results:few flats

Catch and Release:: Yes/Noyes



Report:

me mate got a flat that was the same colour on his belly as his back do any of you know why this happens.heres a picture of it

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it is an anomaly indeed..

on of those gene things i guess.. a bit like red heads just plain and simply weird :lol: :lol: :lol:

it is an anomaly indeed..

on of those gene things i guess.. a bit like red heads just plain and simply weird :lol: :lol: :lol:

that is weird...... :shock:

well done anyway, one for the species list :lol:

Genetic Abnormality? :?

[stevecrow74]

Genetic Abnormality? :?

just after reading on a website that i cant find again :? :?

that flounder and other species that are coloured on both sides is due to a recessive gene being dominant in the fish which can also cause fish to have 2 sets of eyes (Oneset on each side), and even to the point that the fish isn't flat but round...

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Genetic Abnormality? :?

double sided flounder? Men that look like crows? Whatever next? :?

:lol: :lol: :lol:

caught a few flounder like that years ago when i used to fish off kinnegar in holywood. definately weird alright!

caught a few flounder like that years ago when i used to fish off kinnegar in holywood. definately weird alright!

i think that was just pollution in the lough that made them look like that :shock: ...its supposed to be getting clean again though :D

Get quite a few like that here in Ne England. Sometimes the colour on the white side is just blotches. There was a student at Newcastle University a while back who was doing a study and was having the details sent to her. Don't know if she came up with anything else other than the genetic defect.

Get quite a few like that here in Ne England. Sometimes the colour on the white side is just blotches. There was a student at Newcastle University a while back who was doing a study and was having the details sent to her. Don't know if she came up with anything else other than the genetic defect.

thought it was the pollution too hc! :lol: but as u say its getting alot cleaner. i've seen sea trout and salmon actively jumping around this summer, maybe not in big numbers but they were there. i think that says it all to how much cleaner the area is finally getting.

have my eyes on an area or two for winter fishing :D

was that kilcoole Gibbo?

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.

f...sake adam, what u on about?????????
think of the rest of us :oops:
i shoud have gon to skool :oops: :oops: :oops:

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.

rephrased so the rest of us can understand:

i wudd guess dat its eckopic obehexpresshun of pigminashun genes due t' inhehitnace of some rare recessibe allele eideh dat or a poit or deleshun mutashun in de genes of the, ERRRR, skin cells from some recombinashun ehror durigg the, uh, embryonic state or exposure t' an extehnal mutagen.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Clearly a female flounder.....cant decide what to wear...........!

Did it's bum look big in it..??

:lol: its already had a bit of surgery on its tail!

:lol: its already had a bit of surgery on its tail!

The flounder version of a nose job, or maybe a boob reduction...!!!

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.

f...sake adam, what u on about?????????
think of the rest of us :oops:
i shoud have gon to skool :oops: :oops: :oops:

Looks like gibberish to me too ... :? :wink: :)[/quote]