This sounds terrible, but one of the rays in my cooler had a miscariage. I had a baby ray in the cooler that I`m sure was from the stress. I didn`t even think about keeping it for consumption, but I`m sure the 8 inch ray would have been very tender. I kinda felt bad about it, but thats what we do as humans. My son even understands that the meat that we eat is from somthing we kiled. Even if it involves the young ones. The ray tasted good and I liked the texture so no complaints here. My son was complaning last night because I didn`t fry the rest of the ray, but I did fry the last of the cats I cought with **** and had a great meal for the family with onion rings and fried potatoes.