Thornbacks at tynemouth

[Guest]

Walking along the middens at th minute with the bairn and what seem to be small thornbacks lien dead on the beach
The beach is absolutley littered with them

[Rod]

Looks like some fish merchant has dumped the frames after removing the wings.

[d-a]

thorns

thorns are caught all the time by the net boats those fish look like the wings have been removed thats the usable part and the rest tossed overboard a few years ago peter thain told me he used to catch them regular from lyne burn

[jameswlong1941]

Thornbacks

Hi David it looks like they are young thornbacks and something has been feeding of them as there/s not much left of them and you took some good pics of them too .its unusual to see this thing sort of happening but thats the only sollution i can come up with okay m8.

[harry barker]

Hi David it looks like they are young thornbacks and something has been feeding of them as there/s not much left of them and you took some good pics of them too .its unusual to see this thing sort of happening but thats the only sollution i can come up with okay m8.

Nar,wings been cut off, the wings are the only edible part of a thornback ray.
They look a canny size as well.

[Charlton]

Dave have you got any idea how big they where length/weight they look pretty small to me and why have the wings been removed before they where landed and sold at market???

[david.northeast]

They were around 30-35cm not very big at all a couple were around 40cm but none bigger than that not to sure of a weight but they were very thin

Ive never seen thornbacks before so its a new experience to me

[harry barker]

There's a good possibility that these fish were taken by set lines,it coincides with the big tides over the weekend.

This method was used a lot on the Hall beach at Seaham Harbour and loads of thornback rays were taken by set lines revolving on a pulley system pegged out to sea on big spring tide.

The multi-hooks baited with any fish bait and could be hauled in at any state of the tide and re baited then hauled back out again.

[Chris-scott]

Saw exactly same few years bk behind fish quay, same again with wings removed think it could b dumping of waste

[Rocker]

There are no minimum size for rays! Which makes this legal. Utter stupidity in my book!.
The minimum size limits are a complete joke! Especially for cod! I've ranted about this before so won't bore you again!

[Charlton]

They were around 30-35cm not very big at all a couple were around 40cm but none bigger than that not to sure of a weight but they were very thin

Ive never seen thornbacks before so its a new experience to me

will pass the info on

[daveyjones]

used to work down there.fish merchants wing them and offal the rest;if offal binns overflowed and taken away,they just dump carcasses in tyne,probobly washed up then on beach.happens a lot.

[codseeker]

its a shame like to see them this way ..have never caught one yet O well a might get one some day

[david.northeast]

It is a shame havnt caught one myself either should be dispose of correctly rather than dumped

[Davey1970]

terrible to see that, but that`s the way the fishing industry is, why buy a whole fish, wen you can buy only the edible wings. but they should be discarded in a better way. ! .