Norwegian record Marbled electric ray

No official record yet

Villmarksliv's official list of Norwegian sport-fishing records has no record for Marbled electric ray yet. The first registered fish that meets the rules becomes the record.

About Marbled electric ray

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The marbled electric ray (Torpedo marmorata) lives along eastern Atlantic coasts, from the British Isles and North Sea to South Africa, and in the Mediterranean. It has only been recorded a handful of times in Nordic waters, Norway included. It lives on the bottom over sand, mud, seagrass and rocky reefs, from the shallows down to several hundred metres. The body is an almost circular disc with a short, muscular tail and a large tail fin, coloured brown with dark marbling. Females are the larger sex, typically 55–60 cm, while males are about 35–40 cm. Active at night, it lies buried by day and stuns small fish with shocks from two large organs behind the head. These discharges reach 70–80 volts; they are painful but not considered directly life-threatening. It is occasionally taken as bycatch and should be handled with great care and released. Norwegian Red List 2021: Not Applicable (NA).

Sources: Artsdatabanken, Wikipedia

• Habitat: Saltvann

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How to register a Norwegian record

1. Norwegian sport-fishing records are registered with Villmarksliv, not with FishComp. Read the rules before you do anything else with the fish.
2. Records are based on weight and approved by a jury. You give the weight and length, where it was caught, the gear you used and any witnesses.
3. Keep your photos and notes from the catch. Logging it in FishComp does not register a record.