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Re: FW flounders



> > They almost always have small freshwater flounders in stock at the Aquarium
> >  Center in Randallstown, MD.
> >
> allyson, are you sure these are FW flounders or just babies of native SW (i
> forgot the specific term for fish where the babies live in FW but as adults
> move to SW) species ???
> 
> tsuh yang chen, nyc, USA

That would be "anadromous".  The opposite (live in fresh, spawn in salt)
is "catadromous".

John
  in Vancouver, where I used to fish for anadromous Pacific salmon.