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Jumping sturgeon injures Florida woman ROCK BLUFF -- (AP) -- A woman was injured over the weekend by a leaping sturgeon, the latest incident involving the flying fish on the Suwannee River, officials said. Tara Spears, 32, of Bell, was knocked unconscious by the animal on Sunday while boating on the river north of Rock Bluff, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported. She was taken to a hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries and expected to recover, the agency reported. The large, prehistoric-looking sturgeon have hard plates along their backs. They can grow up to eight feet long and up to 200 pounds. In April, a leaping sturgeon severely injured a 50-year-old woman from St. Petersburg who was riding a personal watercraft on the Suwannee River. She suffered a ruptured spleen and had three fingers reattached by surgeons, but she lost her left pinkie finger and a tooth.
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my uncle landed a huge 'cuda once, it almost devoured his private parts!! here's my cousin last weekend..... Attachment: Img_5138.jpg (Downloaded 63 times)
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I'll have to see if I can find the article about the guy who ended up in the hospital over here when a large fish jumped into his boat. I was diving once when something VERY LARGE went over me casting a shadow, turned out to be a manta ray with a 6-7 foot tip to tip span. Beautiful to watch but spooky.
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oh they are grace personified! 
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i always dreamed of hitching a ride on a manta. cruising through the depths. ...once, when my son was a young surfer i was sitting on the beach watching him as usual...a big triangular-shaped fin appeared in front of him, he freaked out and so did i!! it was a manta fin. 
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this is a wonderful book about a girl who befriends a manta. 
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I once saw a pic of a manta ray that was so large, it was pulling the boat that caught it backwards. I think it was in the National Geographic.
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World's First Manta Ray Born in Captivity, Japanese Aquarium Claims Sunday, June 17, 2007   AP June 17: A baby giant manta ray swims inside a huge fish tank at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in southwestern Japan. TOKYO — What is believed to be the first born in captivity has arrived at a southern Japanese aquarium, the facility said Sunday. The baby manta, a female, was born late Saturday in a huge fish tank at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium more than a year after its parents mated, the aquarium said in a statement posted Sunday on its Web site. In a video capturing the birth, the baby manta, rolled up like a tube, came sliding out of the mother manta, then quickly spread its fins and began swimming around. The scene, recorded by the aquarium, was broadcast by national broadcaster NHK on Sunday. The event marks the first birth of a manta in captivity, according to the aquarium, which started raising manta rays in 1988. Noriyasu Suzuki, an official at theIzu-Mito Sea Paradise commercial aqua zoo in western Japan, said he thought the birth in captivity could be a world first. "I've never heard of any other case before," he said. "Aquariums that raise manta rays are rare to begin with ... because they get so big." According to the aquarium, the newborn manta was more than six feet wide. The mother manta, which was brought to the aquarium in 1998 after hitting a fishnet off the southern island of Okinawa, about 1,000 miles southwest of Tokyo, mated with its partner on June 8, 2006, and was pregnant with the baby for 374 days, according to the statement. Aquarium official Minoru Toda said little has been known about the life of manta rays, and the record of pregnancy and the birth would provide valuable scientific data to the studies of the species. "We unfolded some of the mysteries about the life of manta rays, including the length of their pregnancy," Toda said. "Now we have to make sure the baby grows in good health."
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I wonder... Do you cook a manta like a manatee?
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g097103 wrote: I wonder... bad bad G! 
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what a shame, the baby manta was killed by its father. 
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Now I am craving those garlic crabs in FL, LC!
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i can mail you some!  
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another sturgeon injury!  Girl's leg broken in latest sturgeon attack CHIEFLAND -- (AP) -- A 6-year-old girl's leg was broken when she was struck by a sturgeon while riding on a boat in the Suwannee River, wildlife officials said. Taylor Lane Owen, of Old Town, was a passenger in the 20-foot vessel, along with her parents and other family members Sunday. The boat was just north of the Yellow Jacket Boat Ramp, about nine miles west of Chiefland, when a three foot sturgeon jumped out of the river. Taylor received a broken leg and her aunt sustained bruises and cuts. ''This is the third confirmed sturgeon strike on 2007. Four people have been injured. That's four too many,'' said Maj. Bruce Hamlin, regional commander for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's North Central Region, based in Lake City. Hamlin said the commission is trying to increase awareness of the sturgeon attacks and warning people to go slow while boating on the Suwannee River. Ten people were injured in 2006, he said.
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North Carolina Fisherman Catches Piranha Wednesday, July 04, 2007  AP Jerry Melton holds a fish, apparently a piranha, that he recently caught in the Catawba River in North Carolina. MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. — A fisherman looking to catch a catfish for dinner instead reeled in a fish that flashed its teeth and bit his knife. Jerry Melton, 46, was fishing in the Catawba Riverlast week when he caught what state wildlife officials later identified as apiranha, a South American carnivorous fish that lives in freshwater. "When I got it on the bank I didn't really know what it was; I hadn't seen anything like it before," Melton said. When Melton opened the fish's mouth with a pocketknife, he said the fish bit down and left an impression on the blade. Wildlife officials told Melton on Saturday that he caught a 1 pound, 4 ounce piranha that was probably dumped in the river. Melton was fishing in Mount Holly, a town northwest of Charlotte. FOXNews.com's Science team thinks the species may be Serrasalmus rhombeus or red-eye piranha, not quite a huge-toothed "true" piranha but closely related.] The catch highlights the growing problem of people keeping exotic animals and fish as pets and later dumping them into local waters, said Paul Barrington, an ichthyologist[ with the Fort Fisher Aquarium. Earlier this year, another fisherman caught a snakehead fish— also a nonnative fish — in Lake Wylie near Charlotte. "Releasing nonnative fish in our native waters is highly irresponsible because it could have a very adverse affect on the fish in that ecosystem," Barrington said. "Piranha and the snakehead fish have no predators in our waters." • Click here to read more about non-native species invading American lakes and rivers. Jacob Rash, a North Carolina Wildlife Resources biologist, said he believes the piranha was the first caught in the Catawba River and possibly the first in the region. Melton, who is keeping the piranha in his freezer until he can have it mounted, said the experience will keep him out of the river's water. "I've been fishing there my whole life," he said. "Catching something like that is definitely going to make me think twice about what's in that water."
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