What dead sea creature is this?
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Yep that's a Dogfish, without scale it's hard to tell, but they don't get much bigger than that.
They're a type of shark and incredibly prevalent off the coast of Wales - basically if you go boat / beach fishing off near there - if you're lucky enough to catch 10 things, 8 of them will be Dogfish.
They're a type of shark and incredibly prevalent off the coast of Wales - basically if you go boat / beach fishing off near there - if you're lucky enough to catch 10 things, 8 of them will be Dogfish.
It isn't a smoothhound. Dorsal fin much too far back.
They look like this:
http://www.sharktrust.org/en/factsheets/42/common-...
Its a dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula aka catshark, amongst other names)
http://www.sharktrust.org/en/factsheets/47/smallsp...
They look like this:
http://www.sharktrust.org/en/factsheets/42/common-...
Its a dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula aka catshark, amongst other names)
http://www.sharktrust.org/en/factsheets/47/smallsp...
Edited by paintman on Tuesday 22 April 20:55
Lesser Spotted Dogfish as it's commonly known. I've caught approximately eleventy million of them over the years without ever once targeting them.
If you don't handle them properly they can give you horrible skin abrasions as they wrap their tails around your wrist or forearm. One shark where the tail is more dangerous than the pointy end!
As a kid I remember commercial fishermen drying dogfish skin outdoors to then use as a sort of sandpaper.
If you don't handle them properly they can give you horrible skin abrasions as they wrap their tails around your wrist or forearm. One shark where the tail is more dangerous than the pointy end!
As a kid I remember commercial fishermen drying dogfish skin outdoors to then use as a sort of sandpaper.
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