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Giant Manta Ray

In the picture is a 20-foot wide, 5,000 lb. manta ray that was trapped in a boat’s anchor line. To see a fish outside the river is saddening for us but this is the largest manta ray ever found. The International Union for Conservation of Nature put manta rays in the list of the vulnerable species. Reasons causing their deaths: pollution, fishing for Chinese folk medicine, and fishing nets. Sadly, this is not the only manta ray who died after getting entangled in the fishing nets as many others face the same fate every day.