Skate Cooking

[Yak67]

Great article in todays Washington Post Food Section on the great taste of Skates! Yes skates do have value

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...8b3_story.html

Yak67
2015 Hobie PA-14
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[dasher]

They can be very good if properly prepared.

[kevinfry]

looks like true skate....like clear nosed skate.
not cownosed ray

[Big Mike]

The Post did a review on the Baltimore restaurant Alma Cocina Latina and the featured dish is skate ravioli (they earned 3.5 out of 4 stars which is hard to get). Sounds like a road trip from the slower lower. Too bad those darn cow nose rays aren't as tasty. Hey, in my offseason the mind wanders to the edge of all things fish related.

[ronaultmtd]

Skates are a PIA...but no where near as big a PIA as cow nose rays...and trying to clean one is a challenge that I will pass on...too many fish that taste good without all the effort...

[Jman]

There's a restaurant in DC called "Le Diplomate" that has an amazing skate dish and other great food too, if you haven't tried it before. I've never tried cow nose ray, but if it is as good as skate, I would have a go at it.

[john from md]

True skate wings are similar to shark side meat. It is delicious! On the other hand, cow nosed rays ( I hear they will be protected shortly in MD ) is a completely different kind of meat.

[Mark]

True skate wings are similar to shark side meat. It is delicious! On the other hand, cow nosed rays ( I hear they will be protected shortly in MD ) is a completely different kind of meat.

Legislation is pending in Annapolis to ban bow tournaments in Maryland waters.

http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/e...131-story.html

If successful it may indeed lead to further regulation of traditional anglers keeping rays. But that is not the stated intent of the present legislation.

Some anglers may find any CNR limits unnecessarily restrictive. I wouldn't. I don't target them nor do I desire to eat them. I release those I accidentally hook as fast as I can. But I am troubled by tournaments that kill and merely discard so many creatures that are a non-invasive species of the Chesapeake. I may be in the minority but I hope the tournaments are stopped or at least regulated to reduce what appears to be unnecessary carnage.

[john from md]

I believe they were only recently changed to "non-invasive". Prior to that, they were considered to be a threat to the oyster and crab population in the bay.

I would really like to see the science on this as we are seeing more and more rays in the bay than ever before and the oysters are not making the comeback that was previously predicted.

"There has been concern about the increasing population size of cownose rays due to their high predation of oyster beds. The oyster population has been decreasing due to diseases and pollution reducing their grass bed habitat. It is thought that the cownose ray's high predation of oyster beds could further complicate the problem of declining oyster populations." (From the UofF)

[kevinfry]

They must be talking about true slated similar to local clear noses skate (I've eaten a lot of Pacific skate)....there is little chance, imho, that these dishes contain CNR (referred to locally as "skate")

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[mepps3]

So in regards to cownose rays.....there was a "Bizarre Foods" episode centered around VA and the bay they cooked up a ray. They made it sound delicious! Check out the video about 9 minutes in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QORh702AOLM