When something tells you to go back and walk one more time 😆. Possibly the first record of #WhiteSkate egg case since 2019 at #DerrymoreBeach #TraleeBay Irish Elasmobranch Group Marine Institute

Infographic 2/8 East Coast Area of Interest for Marine Protected Area Designation 🌊💙 Most important roseate tern colony in Europe 🇪🇺Nephrops (Dublin Bay Prawns) burrow here 🦐 37% of harbour porpoise sightings 🐬 & much more. Read/Download: fairseas.ie/2022/09/07/eas… #FairSeas

Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority Launches Skates and Rays of Ireland Guide 2023 sfpa.ie/Who-We-Are/New…

Thanks Phillip and the team at RTE for sharing this most amazing encounter of a Critically Endangered Angelshark in Galway yesterday! Just fantastic to see! 😍⬇️

Successful start to the week with the first skate tagged in Courtmacsherry. Over the next 2 yrs we will be tracking its movements to identify residency within one of the last known refuges for this species in Ireland 🌊

🤩 Still blown away by this encounter with a critically endangered female Flapper Skate (Dipturus intermedius) - the worlds largest skate! During a shore dive at Macduff yesterday with Chris Rickard 🤯 So so special!!! #flapperskate #elasmobranch #scubadiving

#OceanAsGaeilge🌊🇮🇪 Inspired by Lucy Taylor comment about the "cosmic ray" last week, the Irish for the starry ray (aka thorny skate) is roc réaltach (literally "starry ray"). 🌟🤩

Good news: we have a nature restoration law. Bad news: it will be a very weak law due to amendments voted in to water it down. We must ensure that when it comes to Irelands Marine Protected Area Bill that we get the strongest bill possible for biodiversity & communities 💙🌍

Skate escape! Trying out an underwater endoscope and the tail of a Little Skate (Leucoraja erinacea) embryo emerged from its egg case (mermaid's purse). They start swimming young! 🦈🛼🥚 #skate #elasmobranch #babyskate

By combining ultrasound images with hormone analysis, we were able to investigate the reproductive traits of the #flapperskate (D. intermedius).  This approach suggests females lay pairs of eggs over winter. #elevatetheskate #ScottishSharks bit.ly/esr_52_97

#FishFactFriday Unfortunately this week isn't a fun post, but it's important. This week the IUCN Red List declared the Java stingaree extinct. 💔 An assessment led by Julia Constance revealed this to be the first marine fish extinction caused by humans. iucnredlist.org/species/60095/…

This Friday at 2pm! Shark & Ray Egg Case Hunt Clean Coasts Beach Clean. Please bring Gloves! Location Grattan Beach, #Salthill

The Explorers are Loving Sharks... Skates and Rays over Valentines💗💗 Our Explorers Education Programme team is delighted to deliver the new #primaryschool class projects: Fin-tastic #sharks + this term, as well as launch the new educational resources online. 🦈bit.ly/42Dmf3E🦈

First observation of a skate egg case nursery in the Ross Sea - Finucci - Journal of Fish Biology - Wiley Online Library buff.ly/3Ijoq2V

Happy World Seagrass Day from the Important Shark and Ray Areas project team! Seagrass meadows are critical habitat for many species of sharks and rays, and their prey. Learn more about us and our work: sharkrayareas.org

Check out this PhD opportunity with ATU MFRC and Marine Beacon

Working with the local communities of an elasmobranch nursery towards conservation and sustainability actions 💪🩵🦈⛸️🌊⬇️ #elasmobranchconservation #communityledaction #SDGs #voluntaryMPA

In this new paper in Biological Reviews, Blackburn & Hughes look at the evolution of viviparity (live-bearing reproduction) and matrotrophy (maternal provision of nutrients during gestation) in chondrichthyan fishes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…