Shaun Cumming joined the Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network’s Tagathon bash at Loch Sunart where efforts to preserve dwindling spurdog stocks are a work in progress…
Consider spurdog as an individual shark specie and it’s not difficult to gauge why once fantastically healthy UK populations have been so gluttonously damaged by unchecked exploitation. Very marketable table fare, they congregate in large shoals in waters where commercial longline vessels have ruthless unfettered access. The spurdog, or spiny dogfish as they are also known, can live to 75 years and weigh over 20lb, and a double-figure spurdog … Continue Reading
Willie Kennedy with a cracking double-figure spurdog caught, tagged and released during the Tagathon
Shaun Cumming joined the Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network’s Tagathon bash at Loch Sunart where efforts to preserve dwindling spurdog stocks are a work in progress…
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