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The barndoor skate is 1 of the largest skates found in the North Atlantic Ocean. They are native to the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, and are found from the eastern Canadian shores to mid-eastern United States coastlines. These skates are threatened by overfishing and over harvesting, but they are still abundant […]

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The common skate, aka blue skate or common blue skate, is the largest known skate in the world. They were quite abundant at one time, but now are predominantly absent from most of their historical range of the northeast Atlantic Ocean as well as the Mediterranean Sea. Due to overfishing […]

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With their elongated, flattened snout that looks more like a hedge trimmer than a feature you’d find on a fish or shark, the sawfish is truly unique. There are 5 known species of sawfish in oceans off the coasts of Australia, Japan, and South Africa. Besides the ocean, they can […]

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