Raja radiata


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Noun1.Raja radiata - cold-water bottom fish with spines on the back; to 40 inches
thorny skate
skate - large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins
genus Raja, Raja - type genus of the family Rajidae
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Some of the stocks had very skewed catches; for example, Atlantic cod and thorny skate (Raja radiata) had mean catches that exceeded their 75th percentiles.
Statistical inference about the relative efficiency of a new survey protocol, based on paired-tow survey calibration data
This probably explains, Reynolds notes, why populations of the smallest species, such as the starry rays (Raja radiata), seem to have mushroomed.
Skating to Extinction?
However, a single study conducted on the thorny skates (Raja radiata) (Berestovskii, 1994) in water temperatures near those found for the Alaska skate revealed that the developmental periods of these two species to be comparable (thorny skate, 4.6[degrees]C, 912 days; Alaska skate, 4.4[degrees]C, 1290 days).
A nursery site of the Alaska skate (Bathyraja parmifera) in the eastern Bering Sea

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