Two Connecticut media outlets recently featured a current research project titled “Bottoming Out? Testing Hypothesis on Why Long Island Sound Flatfishes Are Disappearing,” funded as part of the 2025-2027 collaborative between the Connecticut and New York Sea Grant programs and the EPA’s Long Island Sound Partnership.
The Day of New London published a story on Sept. 2 titled, “Is food competition one of the reasons for decline of flounder in LI Sound?”
On Sept. 3, WFSB Channel 3 News ran a segment titled, “Team of researchers at UConn trying to figure out lack of flat fish in Long Island Sound.”
The Day article can be found here.
The WFSB broadcast can be found here.
The project is seeking to determine the role of increasing competition for food in the decline in four flatfish species (summer flounder, windowpane flounder, winter flounder and fourspot flounder). Information on this project and others funded by the collaborative can be found here.
