Piggskate ( Thornback skate) fishing in Norway



Now when the year 2020 is almost over then it is just a little fun to look at the data's of the fishing in Norway this year 2020.

Yes we know that she ships fish a lot of cod, herring, blue whiting and more.

But how about other fish species .  

In Norway there is a fish that is called Piggskate.  In English this is Thornback Skate.  Ore in Icelandic this is just Skata.

In Norway there is  not so many boats that fish this Skate.

of about 6000 boats in Norway

only 30 boats in Norway have fish Skate this year 2020.  

And this is just a little interesting  .

Total of skate fishing in Norway is  now 149,2 tons.

And of that 2 boats from the same owner has fish total of 136,2 tons of 91% of total skate fishing in Norway

Valdimar H F-185-NK has fish most.   100,1 tons and that is 67% of the total skate fishing in Norway.

This is pretty amazing that one boat has fish almost 67% of the total fishing of one fish species.

Here you can see list of the boats that have landed Skate in Norway this year 2020 

As can been seen on this list the smallest boats that have fish Skate this year is 

ØIEN H-5-A  and this boat is only 5,3 meters long, and Aflafrettir did not find any photo of this boat


Seat Name Length Fishing gear Total fishing in kilos
1 VALDIMAR H F-185-NK 38,42 Line 100,092
2 TRYGVE B TF-60-NK 38,78 Line 36,154
3 STORMHAV F-1-HV 27,99 Gillnet 6,218
4 BEKKVIK JUNIOR F-199-NK 14,99 Seine 2,597
5 KRISTIAN GERHARD F-7-NK 14,99 Seine 1,554
6 PERAGUTT H-51-O 10,65 Ruser 669
7 FRØYANES SENIOR SF-14-S 46,58 Line 512
8 HAVØRN 2 H-127-B 10,65 Gillnet 261
9 KROSSFJORDFISK H-14-S 7,85 Gillnet 226
10 KVARTNES R-47-K 12 Gillnet 194
11 HENRIETTE E F-500-NK 12,99 Line 159
12 STRILAGUTT H-66-S 8,13 Gillnet 144
13 ØYFISK TF-19-NK 10,98 Line 125
14 TOR H-120-B 7,9 Seine 66
15 NJÅGUTT H-76-AV 10,55 Harp 54
16 LOBSTER H-15-FJ 7 Gillnet 54
17 VIKØY H-1-B 10,6 Gillnet 49
18 BEATE SF-156-V 10,61 Gillnet 34
19 SJØLIVET H-11-B 9,2 Gillnet 27
20 FANCY H-163-B 7,65 Gillnet 23
21 SKARTEN VL-45-AV 10,66 Gillnet 21
22 BRITT EVELYN H-9-FS 9,3 Gillnet 20
23 ØIEN H-5-A 5,3 Gillnet 19
24 NORDVESTEN F-54-P 8,99 Line 17
25 TIN SF-11-V 10,65 Gillnet 15
26 ØYSTRAND H-28-B 7,59 Line 13
27 STORSTRIL H-60-S 11,88 Gillnet 10
28 AARFISK H-70-AV 7,35 Gillnet 10
29 SIGLEVIK H-9-FJ 11,35 Line 7
30 VIKANØY N-7-BÖ 34,07 Seine 2


Valdimar H Pic Oddremi


Piggskate, 



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