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What is a thornback? Here are some definitions.
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It is these purses, and those of the thornback and the edible skate, that we oftenest pick up on the English coast. |
For a while we thought it might be a smallish skate, but it turned out to be a nice thornback of around twelve pounds. |
The best ray for eating, and the one best known in Europe, is Raja clavata, the thornback ray. |
The thornback is another ugly fellow of this family, having spines on his back and a double row of them down his tail. |
It's an unusual find on this coast, with thornback being the most copmmon rays, and they turn up only occasionally. |
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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