2024年9月6日 · Skates feed on a variety of organisms such as crustaceans, mollusks, worms, squids, and fish. Winter skates range from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in Canada to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Winter skate live on sand and gravel bottoms in the northwest Atlantic, most commonly in southern New England and on Georges Bank.

The winter skate (Leucoraja ocellata) [2] is a globally endangered species of skate found in the surrounding waters of northeastern North America. They inhabit shallow shelf waters and are prone to bycatch during commercial fishing. [3]

2024年1月1日 · Winter skates are taken primarily as bycatch in the trawls of the ground fishery in the Gulf of Maine and are not the target of a directed fishery. The pectoral “wings” are considered a delicacy in some regions of the world and are used to make imitation scallops. This skate is considered harmless to humans.

The winter skate is a benthic species living over sand or gravel bottoms, usually in depths less than 111m; however, it has been captured at depth of 371 m in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The total temperature range in which winter skate have been caught is -1.2 - 15°C.

Under the 1994 amendments of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the United States Fish and Wild... ... This document describes the development of a Decision Support Tool (DST) from its inception as a request from the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction ...

to describe and identify essential fish habitat (EFH) in their respective regions, to specify actions to conserve and enhance that EFH, and to minimize the adverse effects of fishing on EFH. Congress defined EFH as “those waters and substrate necessary to fish for spawning, breeding, feeding or growth to maturity.” The

For winter skate, no action essential fish habitat is described as those areas of coastal and offshore waters (out to the offshore U.S. boundary of the exclusive economic zone) that are designated on the map below and the accompanying table and …

Temperate; 51°N - 34°N, 79°W - 55°W (Ref. 55278) Western Atlantic: Newfoundland Banks and southern Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada to North Carolina, USA. Disk rounded, with many small dark spots on upper surface. Usually 1-4 ocelli on upper surface on each side of disk, each with a dark brownish center and pale edge.

This report provides information and a recommendation for U.S. winter skate (Leucoraja ocellata). Most skate landings are from bottom trawls (82%) and sink gillnets (18%) in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic

Access project reports and information about ongoing efforts to conserve and protect species of greatest conservation need in the Northeast United States.