The Arctic skate (Amblyraja hyperborea) is a species of fish in the family Rajidae.
It lives near the seabed between 140 and 2,500 m deep in the Arctic Ocean and waters around Canada and northern and north-western Europe, in the northern Pacific Ocean, and in waters surrounding Antarctica and New Zealand.
[2] The Arctic skate is about 1 m long and is gray-brown with large dark spots.
[2] This species was first described by Robert Collett in 1879 and named Raja hyperborea.
[3] The Arctic skate is classified as being of "least concern" by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.