Rays Gone Wild!!!

JD7.62 · Nov 28, 2007

Cool, I love wild shots of rays!

Do you have more? Once on a fishing forum I found a pic of a fisherman (tourist not local) hold up a HUGE leo. It made me :drool:

Does any have any underwater footage of FW in their natural habitat?

darcy12877 · Nov 28, 2007

The pics are amazing, thanks for showing. But when they fisherman are fishing for stingrays and use a hook and sting doesn't it do horrible damage to the rays?

najiru · Nov 29, 2007

Miles;1305478; said:
Rays are of a larger concern to injury than Electric Eels and Pirhanas combined.. I don't doubt that at all.. I don't know if they toss alot of the tailless rays back, many of them are harvest for food or leather, and they remove risk of injury by cutting off the tail.

I have also heard their are companies that employ people to kill stingrays on beaches used for bathing and recreation.

I've seen footage in a documentary of locals spear fishing in the rivers coming accross rays in the sand banks. They speared them through the centre, cut off the tails and tossed them back into the middle of the river to be eaten. Some have a real grudge against them due to being stung

Great pics though Miles, here's one to add.

Miles · Nov 29, 2007

darcy12877;1307070; said:
The pics are amazing, thanks for showing. But when they fisherman are fishing for stingrays and use a hook and sting doesn't it do horrible damage to the rays?

Yeah..

That's why alot of rays 'mysteriously' die or die upon import.. unseen wounds to the mouth or intestines.. swallowing a fish hook can mess things up.