Flapper Skate Drop Earrings

100% recycled sterling silver layers with oxidised detail.  Sterling silver ear hooks.

Despite having legal protections in UK waters, the Flapper Skate is being killed in scores by commercial fishing practices such as bottom trawling which result in them becoming bycatch.

A member of the shark family, their favoured places to hang are deep, muddy and largely (nowadays), Scottish waters.  But their egg-laying nurseries are often shallower cobbled and rocky areas closer to shorelines.  This makes them all to easy to hurt, accidentally or intentionally: habitat degradation and most heinous of all, trophy hunting, have drastically reduced their numbers in UK waters and they are currently one of our most critically endangered native species.

A crucial top predator, it is essential we save them to preserve healthy ecosystems.