George Shirley wrote:
>
> He was exactly right. I worked on a shrimp boat one summer when I
> was
> a kid and the skipper/owner used to skin the stingray wings, then
> punch out scallops with a piece of half-inch pipe. Sold them at the
> dock to the unsuspecting. They tasted okay and I have eaten ray
> wings
> since when that was all I could catch. This was in the Gulf of
> Mexico
> but I figure the Atlantic seaboard fishermen did the same thing.

And skate wings are delicious. Unfortunately, skate are on the
endangered list because of severe overfishing.