double sided flounder

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#21 Post by bass boy »

Adam S wrote: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.
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#22 Post by Adam S »

all genetics is gibberish :D
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#23 Post by toaddi33 »

wat a weird fish!! well done! :D
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#24 Post by BigPhil »

get them showing up quite regular here too, i had one on waterfoot the other weekend too.
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#25 Post by round_ourway »

wonder if anybody has tasted them yet :wink: :D
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#26 Post by bass boy »

Round_ourway wrote:wonder if anybody has tasted them yet :wink: :D
eat it.youd end up glowing in the dark......ivan
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#27 Post by gibbo »

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
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#28 Post by teacher »

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.
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