Cownose Ray sounds like a weird guy you may have known in sixth grade, but it’s actually a prolific species of sting ray that is feasting upon oysters in Chesapeake Bay. They are bad news for an already-teetering industry. The Hampton Roads Daily Item’s Fred Carroll fills us in on a solution proposed at a meeting of scientists, regulators, and commercial interests: ray filets. And steaks, soup, or whatever else one could cook up to make the creatures into cuisine. One pack of 5 million rays, Carroll reports, covered more than 1,100 acres. Such mobs eat a lot of oysters in a twinkling. But that also sounds like a creature that could be netted at no taxpayer cost in huge numbers if only there were a market.
Read it; Also AP has a rewrite.
Other Oyster News: Washington Post Elizabeth Williamson on Chesapeake oysters and a rip rap surprise.
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