News
July 2025
App to build better picture of endangered flapper skates in Scotland
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AI scanning helps Scottish conservation project turn tide for flapper skate
Guardian Article
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Oceanographic Magazine
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Report shows distribution of Scotland’s threatened sharks, rays and skates
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Movement Ecology of Flapper Skate - Final report published
The Movement Ecology of Flapper Skate final report is now avaiable.
Click HereSeptember 2021
Summary of SkateSpotter data to 2021
The Skatespotter programme has been running for 3 years, starting in 2018. Since our last report in 2018 new photos and tag records have been added, as well as historical data from the Scottish Shark Tagging Programme (SSTP). The SSTP data includes tag recapture submissions originally reported to the Glasgow Museum, dating back to 1975.
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Flapper skate protection
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World first as endangered skate egg hatches
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Endangered skate movements revealed
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Summary of SkateSpotter data to 2018
Click HereScotland’s anglers urged to help save critically endangered fish
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Anglers asked to get their flapper snaps out
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Call for summer beachcombers to hunt for skate egg cases
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