| The best ray for eating, and the one best known in Europe, is Raja clavata, the thornback ray. |
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| For a while we thought it might be a smallish skate, but it turned out to be a nice thornback of around twelve pounds. |
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| The most common are dragonets, topknots, dabs, plaice and, if you're lucky, the occasional anglerfish and thornback ray. |
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| Most of the skate sold in fish shops is in fact thornback ray, and in the Southeast the fish has the local name roker. |
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| Eleven of these are of the shark variety, who live in blissful harmony with stingrays, thornback rays, conger eels and dogfish, to name but a few. |
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| Thornback and blond rays are most often seen, with brill, plaice, sole, flounder and even turbot on occasion. |
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| Keelan landed bull huss, conger, cod, rockling, pouting and dogfish before latching on to the prize catch of the day, a 20lb 8oz thornback ray. |
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| It's an unusual find on this coast, with thornback being the most copmmon rays, and they turn up only occasionally. |
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| Thornback rays fed mainly upon fishes and reptauts, but also upon polychaetes, mysids, natant crustaceans, isopods, and cephalopods. |
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