"The rays have a stinger, sometimes two, in their tail. They know how to use it--have to be careful getting them in. Control the tail, and slide a shap knife under it and cut it off. We put them in a bottle of bleach water to dissolve the skin and meat--leaved a barbeded bone looking thing for a souvineer. It won't contaminate the meat."

Interesting, my Grandfather used to catch them a lot on trips to Florida, but we never did anything with them.