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Posted by: Sunny Fan

Headline from today's paper:
"North Sea in crisis as skate dies out"

I never knew that Skate was a bottom-dweller though:eek:

The common skate has become extinct in the North Sea

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Excuse me, but there's nothing common (raja clavata) about our Skate!

More raja stellulata, I'd say.

Posted by: Pistike

delicious with butter and capers or in a light roux based sauce with gruyere finished under the grill with breadcrumbs.

Posted by: Sunny Fan

quote:
Originally posted by tmjwat
Excuse me, but there's nothing common (raja clavata) about our Skate!

More raja stellulata, I'd say.

I realise that, of course, but I'm just worried that our Skate might be in danger.

And does she want to sue for being called a bottom-dweller?

Posted by: Gavin Axten

I love a bit of Skate probably my favourite fish, not from the chip shop though when its covered in loads of greasy batter

Posted by: SKATE

HELP!!!!!

Posted by:

quote:
Originally posted by Gavin Axten
I love a bit of Skate probably my favourite fish, not from the chip shop though when its covered in loads of greasy batter

SKATE's been battered by a greaser? Nooooooooo :eek:

Posted by: Sunny Fan

Cliché-man appears later in the article:

Euan Dunn, fisheries policy officer for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, said: "This is the last chance saloon.... like harvesting apples by cutting down the trees.... like applying sticking plaster to a serious injury....now drastic surgery is needed."

Those pesky beam-trawlers

Posted by: biggus mickus

I can never work this one out. The skate is in trouble, but the ray's are doing well. For a fish from the same family, it does not make sense. Most of the time, ray is sold as skate anyway. Thornbacks, stingers and the rest are caught all the time in the Thames estuary. Friends of mine, go to north west Scotland skate fishing, and they catch ok.

Posted by: SKATE

I would like to announce the launch of the Save Our Skate campaign. All donations must be in the form of liquid alcoholic refreshments, plus any requirements for emergency mouth to mouth resuscitation must be instantly granted by any and all handsome and charming men.

Posted by:

quote:
Originally posted by SKATE
any requirements for emergency mouth to mouth resuscitation must be instantly granted by any and all handsome and charming men.

Well that lets us off the hook then...:D

Posted by: Sunny Fan

quote:
Originally posted by tmjwat

Well that lets us off the hook then...:D

Hope that pun wasn't intentional; you really shouldn't let that sort of thing slip through the net

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quote:
Originally posted by Sunny Fan

Hope that pun wasn't intentional; you really shouldn't let that sort of thing slip through the net

It was. I know my plaice.

Posted by: Pistike

I always avoided telling this story out of respect to SK8 but seeing as Sunny Fan seems so preocuppied by fish, I shall indulge you all in little known facts about skate.

Firstly Elisabeth David whose culinary writing inspired countless retired army officers to open many hideous little bistros on Britains coastline throughout the 1970s states quite correctly that skate is the only fish that benefits in flavour and texture from being kept in the fridge for 2 or 3 days before it is consumed.

Given that really fresh fish is practically impossible to find in the UK, skate is a good choice for this reason.

The other interesting fact about skate is that they posses genitalia remarkably similar (so I'm informed) to those of the female of the species.

When I worked at LWT years ago we used to take an ad agency called AMS on an annual fishing trip on the Thames estuary.

My old boss nailed a skate to the mast and gave it a good seeing to.

Which was nice.

Posted by: SKATE

quote:
Originally posted by tmjwat

Well that lets us off the hook then...:D

Ah.....the one that got away......:D

Posted by: SKATE

quote:
Originally posted by Pistike

My old boss nailed a skate to the mast and gave it a good seeing to.

Anyone tries to nail me to a mast will live to regret it. :eek: :veryangry

Posted by: Gavin Axten

quote:
Originally posted by tmjwat

Well that lets us off the hook then...:D

You speak for yourself Tim :)

Posted by: Pistike

quote:
Originally posted by SKATE

Anyone tries to nail me to a mast will live to regret it. :eek: :veryangry

But a good seeing to is OK?

Posted by: SKATE

quote:
Originally posted by Pistike

But a good seeing to is OK?

I won't dignify your question with a response ;)

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quote:
Originally posted by Gavin Axten

You speak for yourself Tim :)

I was wondering who'd bite :)

Posted by: Sunny Fan

quote:
Originally posted by tmjwat

I was wondering who'd bite :)

You're really trawling the depths now

Posted by: Elephant with mouse gyp

One, two, three, four, five...

Posted by: Pistike

You know each of the North Sea's skate personally EWMG?

Posted by: Elephant with mouse gyp

quote:
Originally posted by Pistike
You know each of the North Sea's skate personally EWMG?

No, just the fish I once caught alive

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SKATE's family tree:

Bathyraja abyssicola (Gilbert 1895). Deepsea Skate. 137 cm (4.5 ft). Japan and Bering Sea; Queen Charlotte Is, British Columbia to Islas de Los Coronados, northern Baja California. 218- 2,904 m (720-9,528 ft). (Zorzi and Anderson 1988, RACE).

Bathyraja aleutica(Gilbert 1895). Aleutian Skate. 1.2-1.5 m (4-5 ft). Northern Japan to Aleutian Is. and southeast Alaska. 91-700 m (300-2,296 ft). (Eschmeyer et al. 1983).

Bathyraja interrupta (Gill and Townsend 1897). Sandpaper Skate. 86 cm (2.8 ft). Alaska to Cortes Bank, southern California. 17 1,380 m (54-4,554 ft) (Pearcy et al. 1982, RACE, Stehmann 1986). Listed by Pearcy et al. and RACE as B. kincaidii

Bathyraja parmifera (Bean 1881). Flathead Skate. Bering Sea, Oregon to Pt. Arguello, central California, 34o05' N. 118-1,554 m (390-5,128 ft) (Howe 1981, RACE, Stehmann 1986).

Bathyraja spinosissima (Beebe and Tee-Van 1941). White Skate. Tillamook Head, Oregon, 45o54' N to Eureka, California 40o42' N. 144-2,938 m (474-9,695 ft). (Eschmeyer et al. 1983, Pearcy et al. 1982, RACE).

Bathyraja trachura (Gilbert 1891). Black Skate. 89 cm (35 in). Bering Sea to north of Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California. 24-1,993 m (78-6,540 ft). (Eschmeyer et al. 1983, RACE).
Raja badia Garman 1899. 99 cm (37 in). Vancouver I., British Columbia to central Panama. 87-1,600 m (288-5,248 ft). (Zorzi and Anderson 1988, RACE).

Raja binoculata Girard 1854. Big Skate. To 2.4 m (8 ft). Bering Sea and southeastern Alaska to central Baja California. 3-800 m (10-2,640 ft). (Howe 1981, Eschmeyer et al. 1983).

Raja inornata Jordan and Gilbert 1881. California Skate. 76 cm (2.5 ft). Strait of Juan de Fuca to Bahia Tortugas, central Baja California. 18 m (60 ft) or less to 1,600 m (5,280 ft). (Howe 1981, Eschmeyer et al. 1983).

Raja rhina (Jordan and Gilbert 1880). Longnose Skate. 140 cm (4.6 ft) (Howe 1981). Southeastern Alaska to central Baja California. 13-800 m (42-2,640 ft). (Eschmeyer et al. 1983, RACE).

Raja stellulata (Jordan and Gilbert 1880). Starry Skate. 77 cm (2.5 ft). Bering Sea to northern Baja California. 18-732 m (60-2,400 ft). (Howe 1981, Eschmeyer et al. 1983).

(We know who Jordan is - but who's Gilbert????)

Posted by: Sunny Fan

quote:
Originally posted by tmjwat

(We know who Jordan is - but who's Gilbert????)

Billy

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http://www.bigfishtackle.com/fish_species/fishspecies/clearnoseskate.gif

http://home.clara.net/chriswinter/gibert.jpg

SKATE and Billy Gilbert. Sorted.

Posted by: Strathclyde Eagle

quote:
Originally posted by tmjwat

I was wondering who'd bite :)

Or indeed, take the bait.

I'll get my waders. :p

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Sometimes I think a large part of the BBS is fuelled by acid

Posted by: GUCCI Eagle

I've never had Skate.

Posted by: Sunny Fan

quote:
Originally posted by tmjwat
Sometimes I think a large part of the BBS is fuelled by acid

And on that quantum leap, may I introduce the "Premier danger girl snow skate":)

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Skate on skate...

http://www.aist.go.jp/GSJ/Info/event/johoten01/skate.jpg

Aceeeeeeeeeeed :clown:

Posted by: SKATE

quote:
Originally posted by tmjwat
Skate on skate...

http://www.aist.go.jp/GSJ/Info/event/johoten01/skate.jpg

Aceeeeeeeeeeed :clown:

I must stop morphing into a tailed amphibian. :eek:

Posted by: Sunny Fan

quote:
Originally posted by SKATE

I must stop morphing into a tailed amphibian. :eek:

It's the only way to escape a beam trawl

Posted by: SKATE

quote:
Originally posted by Sunny Fan

It's the only way to escape a beam trawl

Beam me up Skatey things are getting a bit hot down here.....

Posted by: Sunny Fan

quote:
Originally posted by SKATE

Beam me up Skatey things are getting a bit hot down here.....

I told you to stop that bottom dwelling!