Science: Flounder Eggs

Twenty-two million eggs, flounder eggs, traveled in a baggage car last week from Woods Hole, Mass., where the Government maintains a fish hatchery, to Jamaica Bay, L. I. There they were dumped into the coast waters to hatch and grow. In three years, the new flounders will be big enough to catch and eat. The ocean around New York Harbor is too filthy for flounders to breed naturally.

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