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Flapper Skate taken by Scottish Shark Tagging Programme

Summary of Flapper Skate Working Group 1st Paper

The Flapper Skate Working Group met to discuss issues with the conservation of the critically endangered Flapper Skate, and created priorities and recommendations to aid this. It is hoped these…

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Problematic Plastics

Plastic has been found throughout the entire water column, from the surface waters to the deep-sea trenches, wrapped around the bodies, and inside the stomachs of wildlife, in all oceans around…

A photo of a Flapper Skate, or Common Skate, taken by angler Ronald Surgenor

Flapper Skate Feature

The Flapper skate, Dipturus intermedia, the ‘manta ray of the Atlantic’!