A group of fishermen in Cuttack district, Odisha state, India caught a giant manta ray weighing about 300 kg and 2.1 meters long while casting a net on the Kandal River.
This sea ” monster ” , locally called “Sankucha”, has amazed the people. Many people gathered to see the giant manta ray .
After being notified, officials came to the rescue and released the fish back into the river. Stingray is a type of cartilaginous fish that lives on the seabed. They have more than 500 species in the cartilaginous fish superorder.
Stingrays have round, cylindrical bodies, long tails, and small heads. The common characteristics of stingrays are cartilage, flat shape, head, body, eyes and abdomen are rounded to look like a fan, and the fish’s tail is long like a fan handle.
Because the fish body is made of hard and elastic cartilage, the fish meat is delicious and nutritious. Stingray is rich in protein, rich in nutrients, and has fatty and fragrant meat.
Many stingrays have stingers or even poisonous spines like stingrays.
Like baleen whales and whale sharks, some rays are filter feeders, but most are carnivorous. The filter jaw part is often hunted as a medicine for the Chinese.
They often tend to move close to shore, keeping a distance of 320 km from the coast, hanging around the routes of ships in an effort to hunt plankton and fish eggs. There are giant rays weighing up to 7 quintals. We invite readers to watch more videos: Strange fish with the ability to be invisible, only appearing in Nha Trang.
They often tend to move close to shore, keeping a distance of within 320 km of the coast, hanging around the routes of ships in an effort to hunt plankton and fish eggs. There are giant rays weighing up to 7 quintals.
