Clams Canino wrote:
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When you pick up a ray, stick your fingers in the holes behind the
eyes and pick it up like a bowling ball. You don't have to get close
to the barb that way.

What do those 2 holes normally do.

-W (assuming they aren't there just to pick up the fish)


Clams,

I assume they're the same as they are with the skates I used to see
while diving in New England. When they wanted to 'hide' while on
bottom, they would apparently blow water downward to stir up the sand
under them and the pressure would blow the sand up out of the two holes
like volcanoes, and drop the sand back all over them. Pretty cool to see.

-Jim