I will try this again since the last one was apperenlyt timmed out.
Great thread. I got sucked into reading the whole thing.
UNH and the State have added young flounder to the area. I don't know if this has helped the polulation or not . I think that many things happened a few years before the Mothersday rain of 2006. Cod predation an other such factors may have been down allowing for more flounder to survive their infancy.
I think that the salinity drop after the Mothersday storm really helpd the mature population. The salinity in Hamptopn by the marina went to 0.5 PPT it is usually 28-31 PPT. There was a massive diefoo of the invertebrates in the bays an tidal rivers. Even the dreeaded greenie got its butt kicked to some degree. I think this allowed an already growing population of flounder to stay in the esturays without being harassed so much. Which in turn helped for the 2007 hachlings.
On the Green demons, I my opinon the only way to eliminate a species aside from burning a rain forest is to get their price to 50 cents a pound. I say make a soft shell green crab industry and sell the rest as animal food or fertilizer. I suggested to the state that they put a bounty on the things. You can guess how far that got.
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I might try one of these day to get some cod on the greenies. the near shore cod I get are usually cockoblock full of baby lobsters and red crabs, Why not greens? The tatoug love them.
Anyway great thread lots of good information,
Oddfish