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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
Rays and Skates are commonly known as Elasmobranchs, which include, sharks, skates and ray, they differ from other fish in the sea by having a skeletal structure made out of cartilage as opposed to bone. | |||
''' | '''Diet:''' Rays and Skates have similar feeding habits as they are both bottom-dwellers. | ||
''' | '''Threats:''' They are vulnerable to overfishing and once depleted, populations take a long time to recover. Rays and Skates are slow growing, late to reach maturity and typically have low fecundity, thus the number of individual fish recruited into a population on an annual basis is low. Young Rays and Skates are large enough to get caught as by-catch in trawl nets and dredge gear. Relatively a small proportion will actually reach breeding age. | ||
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Basking Shark (''Cetorhinus maximus''), Spurdog (''Squalus acanthias''), Porbeagle Shark (''Lamna nasus''), Common Skate (''Dipturus batis''), Blue Shark (''Prionace glauca''), and Sandy Ray (''Raja brachyura''). | |||
==Types== | ==Types== | ||
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