Yesterday I went fossil hunting on the Norfolk coast. While there, I found three dead dogfish in various states of decomposition on the same stretch of beach.
It got me wondering how they might have ended up there. Were they victims of seals perhaps, or an unscrupulous sea fisherman? What do you think?
i come across a few dogfish on beaches most are discards i would say , from a fishing session ,
idiots kill them then chuck them back at the end of the session ........
i bumped into a guy years back who had a huge pile of doggies next to him ,over 30 , he said he was having a cull to thin them out .......
I was on a beach once, that was littered with dead rays - perhaps a dozen of them.
I don't know what their reproductive cycle is, but maybe they were seasonal spawning casualties?
The discarded by-catch from trawlers is another plausible possibility.
Often see lots around where Hastings fishing boats beach - so assume they are discards.
I often fish off this mark, most tides you’ll find ray and dogfish discards, the dogs are sometimes gutted and the rays are minus their wings, so definitely from the trawlers those ones
Yesterday I went fossil hunting on the Norfolk coast. While there, I found three dead dogfish in various states of decomposition on the same stretch of beach.
It got me wondering how they might have ended up there. Were they victims of seals perhaps, or an unscrupulous sea fisherman? What do you think?
Last weekend i found 2 dead ones and they were BOTH missing the Heads
Yesterday I went fossil hunting on the Norfolk coast. While there, I found three dead dogfish in various states of decomposition on the same stretch of beach.
It got me wondering how they might have ended up there. Were they victims of seals perhaps, or an unscrupulous sea fisherman? What do you think?
Last weekend i found 2 dead ones and they were BOTH missing the Heads
Yesterday I went fossil hunting on the Norfolk coast. While there, I found three dead dogfish in various states of decomposition on the same stretch of beach.
It got me wondering how they might have ended up there. Were they victims of seals perhaps, or an unscrupulous sea fisherman? What do you think?
Last weekend i found 2 dead ones and they were BOTH missing the Heads
could well be a serial dogfish killer on the loose .......
the dogfish are tuff old foookers ..nothing seems to eat them when there discarded ,even the gulls wont touch em ..
still no reason to kill them for no reason though....
