Norwegian record Longnosed skate: 16.2 kg

About Longnosed skate

The longnosed skate (Dipturus oxyrinchus) is a large skate named for its very long, sharply pointed snout. It can grow to about 1.5 m. The upper surface is smooth with few thorns, apart from a row of small thorns along the tail and thorn patches on the wings of mature males. It lives on the seabed over gravel, rock, sand or mud, from around 70 m to below 1,000 m, most often near 200 m, and ranges from Norway to Senegal and through the Mediterranean. It eats mainly crustaceans and cephalopods, plus other bottom animals and fish, digging for prey with its snout. Females lay 10–45 large egg cases a year in spring and early summer. In Norway it is regularly caught as bycatch in gillnets set for monkfish, and it has reappeared at old skate sites in the Hardangerfjord. It is Least Concern in Norway, but the IUCN classes it as Vulnerable because of fishing pressure.

Sources: Artsdatabanken, Wikipedia

• Habitat: Saltvann
• Best month: Oktober

See the species guide

Biggest Longnosed skate in FishComp

12.5 kg (77 % of the record) by Joakim Øvrebø. See the catch

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.