Barndoor skates, once a textbook example of overfishing, have recovered enough to allow fishing

October 20, 2018
Marine Science, Mid Atlantic, New England
Barndoor skates were once thought to be so overfished that a highly-publicized paper from 1998 noted that they had been “driven to near extinction without anyone noticing.” One of the largest skates, barndoor skates can reach over 5 feet in wingspan, which is large enough that their diet includes small sharks like spiny dogfish; for a skate, that’s about as close as it gets to charismatic megafauna! >click to read<09:16
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