The Dover sole

• Main Author: Demory, Robert
• Other Authors: Oregon. Department of Fish and Wildlife
• Format: Report
• Language: English; unknown
• Published: Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
• Subjects: Flatfish fisheries > Oregon; Microstomus pacificus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/technical_reports/p2676w25p

The Dover sole has been the most important flatfish in Oregon's trawl fishery since its beginning in 1938. At that time the fish was called slime sole, because the animal produces great quantities of the stuff. The term Dover sole apparently comes from the north Atlantic where a similar creatur...