Squalus acanthias (spiny dogfish)

This is a Spiny Dogfish, also called mud shark (to scare children).  While we were tied up here it's all the fisherman on board pulled up.  You can't even use them for bait - the fish smells badly of amonia. im 12 years old and my dad and I went fishing near boston i caught four dogfish and my dad caught three. The next day we went to check our lobster traps and thier was a dog fish in thier but we forgot a camera again. a couple of the dogfish we caught were 5 or 6 feet it was awsome peter Sunday, July 9th, 2006 at 09:51:03 wow thats a sweet fish. i'v never seen 1 like that b4. why is it called a dogfish. greta Sunday, October 8th, 2006 at 11:58:14