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July 2025
App to build better picture of endangered flapper skates in Scotland   
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April 2025
AI scanning helps Scottish conservation project turn tide for flapper skate   
Guardian Article
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Is Artificial Intelligence the flapper skate's best hope for survival?   
Oceanographic Magazine
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October 2024
Report shows distribution of Scotland’s threatened sharks, rays and skates   
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August 2022
Movement Ecology of Flapper Skate - Final report published   
The Movement Ecology of Flapper Skate final report is now avaiable.
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September 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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March 2021
Flapper skate protection   
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October 2020
World first as endangered skate egg hatches   
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January 2020
Endangered skate movements revealed   
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November 2018
Summary of SkateSpotter data to 2018   
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Scotland’s anglers urged to help save critically endangered fish   
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July 2017
Anglers asked to get their flapper snaps out   
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July 2015
Call for summer beachcombers to hunt for skate egg cases   
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