barn-door skate
fish
Also known as: Raja laevis
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conservation and extinction issues
- In conservation: Fishing
One species, the barn-door skate (Raja laevis), was an incidental catch of western North Atlantic fisheries in the second half of the 20th century. As the name suggests, this is a large fish, too big to go unrecorded. Its numbers fell every year, until by the 1990s none…
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