howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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chanced upon this chap earlier, looked he was only recently an ex fish.
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Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Spotted dogfish of some type I think.
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Makes brilliant fish & chips if you can get the skin off cleanly.
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Brian Dixon
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lesser spoted dogfish.related to the shark,commonly known as huss or rock fish.oh by the way watch out the skin it feels like sandpaper if you rub it the wrong way.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that is was i was thinking brian, couldn't find a picture of one anywhere so i could not be sure.
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The skin is rough and feels like sand-paper as the dogfish, like all sharks and rays, is covered in tiny teeth-like structures known as 'dermal denticles'. These reduce drag when the animal is swimming.
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A spotted dogfish- pretty fish - not sure if this is called Huss or Rig ?? Shark family.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Bit odd like this in Ramsgate
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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there was another a few yards(sorry metres) from here i spotted the pictured one.
the other one had been dead much longer thus ruling out a suicide pact.
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Keith.
He can't be Fred, that's the seagull's name -
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The second photo looks more like smooth hounds, young ones. In fact, looking at them again, I am sure they are juvenile smoothies, two dorsal fins and one anal fin, white spots on flank. Not nice to eat, full of iodine.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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full of iodine gary?
would be popular in japan then, our embassy has been giving out the same to british residents there just in case.