Posted on 09/12/2006 4:07:20 AM PDT by cartan
SYDNEY, Australia (AP)—At least 10 stingrays have been killed since “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin was fatally injured by one of the fish, an official said Tuesday, prompting a spokesman for the late TV star's animal charity to urge people not take revenge on the animals.
Irwin died last week after a stingray barb pierced his chest as he recorded a show off the Great Barrier Reef.
Stingray bodies since have been discovered on two beaches in Queensland state on Australia's eastern coast. Two were discovered Tuesday with their tails lopped off, state fisheries department official Wayne Sumpton said.
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I've heard they're good to eat, taste like scallops.
Fair is fair, the stingrays started it.
Thing is, as a conservationist, Mr. Irwin would probably be against this.
It doesn't take much for people to be stupid.
Or,perhaps,people are less likely (much less likely?) to see them as benign and harlmless and,as a result,have nervous trigger fingers.
Not a doubt about it. He'd be appalled and furious.
or they just want a souvenir stingray barb..
Anyone know what happens to a stingray when their barb is gone. Do they grow anew or does the stingray die?
How many are killed anyway? I mean, is this any different than usual?
I seem to remember that some kinds taste pretty good.
Yeah, so what? Only Leftists care more about animals than humans. Certain species DESERVE to go extinct. I for one, would love to see mosquitos eradicated from the earth.
Here's a great suggestion for any Liberal, who thinks the world is overpopulated:
http://www.timslagle.com/blog/2006/09/louder-than-words.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray .
Notable that even the Wikipedia stingray article has been attacked.
Under the aggression section.
I'll join you on mosquitos, but a stingray-killing rampage is pointless and small-minded. It was a freak accident. It's not like the oceans are full of stingrays looking for humans to kill.
People eat them. How many more than normal is that?
Kill them all !! Let Neptune sort them out!
Is that really true? I don't know anyone to ask.
When my dad was a little boy, he lived in a land-locked state - and he was told that sea scallops and bay scallops were cut with little round cuuters, like cookie cutters, out of the "wings" of skates and rays.
I love scallops and will eat them just about any time they're on the menu. It never failed when we were eating out that he would tell me the "truth about scallops." Gag. I would show him scallop shells on the beach, even scallops with the roe attached (yummiest!) and he never completely believed me.
Sure would like to know if skate or ray meat ever was actually passed off as scallops anywhere on the face of the earth. (I don't think so.)
Do they really? The little tiny ones?
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