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Palestinian fishermen collect several Manta Ray fish that were
washed up on the beach in Gaza City on February 27, 2013.
(MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Around 220 mobula rays were discovered at the Gaza City beach yesterday, the Times of Israel reports. The sea creatures were promptly gutted and carted off to market where a fisherman said they could fetch up to $1.50 per kilo. The
rays have not visited
the waters off the disputed territory for six years, according to a
local fisherman. It is unclear how the enormous fish ended up on the beach. Bob Rubin, an expert on stingrays from Santa Rosa Junior College in California, said the rays’ fins could have been bloody because they slapped into something such as "boats, rocks, sand, each other". "Large underwater noises or electrical signals may have caused some
state of disorientation but that is only a guess on my part" Mr Rubin
said. A Gaza fisherman said God had provided the rays and he hoped to find more at the beach the next day.
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