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FEATURED SPECIES: Hogchoker (Trinectes maculatus)

FEATURED SPECIES: Hogchoker (Trinectes maculatus)

by Dr. F. Douglas Martin The Hogchoker is a small flatfish found in bays and estuaries but often spends extended time in rivers feeding on worms and insect larvae in soft mud bottoms.  They get their common name because East Coast fishermen would feed these so-called "trash" fish to their hogs, after which the fish would bow its body into a su...