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This story comes from the Piankatank River in Virginia, where those cownose rays are still dining in style.
You may recall two years ago that locals chuckled when the Army Corps of Engineers, charged with oyster restoration, “carpet-bombed" one million oysters over the Great Wicomico River - into the waiting jaws of voracious rays.
Two weeks ago, in another experiment, most of 775,000 oysters planted by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and The Nature Conservancy on an artificial reef became ray lunch once more. “We were trying to do something different, but the rays came in a week or two early," Tom Leggett of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation told Bay Weekly. The rays ate 94 percent of the oysters in just five days.
I wonder why the place where the seeding took place in Virginia is called Stingray Point.
You may recall two years ago that locals chuckled when the Army Corps of Engineers, charged with oyster restoration, “carpet-bombed" one million oysters over the Great Wicomico River - into the waiting jaws of voracious rays.
Two weeks ago, in another experiment, most of 775,000 oysters planted by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and The Nature Conservancy on an artificial reef became ray lunch once more. “We were trying to do something different, but the rays came in a week or two early," Tom Leggett of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation told Bay Weekly. The rays ate 94 percent of the oysters in just five days.
I wonder why the place where the seeding took place in Virginia is called Stingray Point.