Spotted ray (Raja montagui). Norsk: Flekkskate.
No official record yet
Villmarksliv's official list of Norwegian sport-fishing records has no record for Spotted ray yet. The first registered fish that meets the rules becomes the record.
About Spotted ray
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The spotted ray (Raja montagui) is one of the smaller skates of the northeast Atlantic, usually not much more than 70–80 cm long. The upper side is brown and sprinkled with dark spots that stop short of the edges of the wings, while the underside is white. It lives over sand and other soft ground on the continental shelf, mostly at moderate depths, though it has been found down to 500 m or more. It often buries itself in the sand and ambushes crustaceans, worms, small fish and molluscs. Females lay some 60–70 egg cases in summer, and the young hatch about six months later. Its range runs from the Mediterranean and Morocco north to Shetland. Norwegian Red List 2021: Not Applicable (NA).
Sources: Artsdatabanken, Store norske leksikon, Wikipedia
- Habitat: Saltvann
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- Norwegian sport-fishing records are registered with Villmarksliv, not with FishComp. Read the rules before you do anything else with the fish.
- 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.
- Keep your photos and notes from the catch. Logging it in FishComp does not register a record.
Source: Villmarksliv's official Norwegian records (klikk.no).