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Giant stingray during release effort.<\/p>\n
Owen Prior is \u201cFlorida Man.\u201d His company delivers specialized beach-fishing adventures to individuals or groups, depending on their location and species they wish to target.<\/p>\n
RELATED: Massive stingray shown free-swimming off Rhode Island<\/a><\/p>\n The roughtail stingray is the largest whip-tailed stingray in the Atlantic. It can measure 8 feet across and weigh 600-plus pounds. Its tail is often much longer than its width, which Prior\u2019s images<\/a> reveal. (His catch was said to measure 12 feet long, including the tail.)<\/p>\n Roughtail stingrays, according to the National Aquarium<\/a>, are named \u201cfor the thorny plates, or tubercles, that run along the outer part of their body and base of their tail.\u201d<\/p>\n They boast highly venomous spines that are deployed in self-defense when a stingray lashes its tail.<\/p>\n Roughtail stingray closeup.<\/p>\n The stingrays, which inhabit both sides of the Atlantic, spend most of their time partially buried, ready to ambush small fish and invertebrates.<\/p>\n They rarely come into contact with humans but are harvested commercially on a small scale, marketed as fishmeal and oil, according to the National Aquarium.<\/p>\n They\u2019re also targeted occasionally by anglers.<\/p>\n According to the International Game Fish Assn., the all-tackle world record<\/a> stands at 405 pounds, for a roughtail stingray catch off Islamorada, Fla., in 1972.<\/p>\n This article originally appeared on For The Win: ‘Monster’ stingray caught during fishing charter at Florida beach<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Roughtail](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/49fd0be77bf89b8f7f50d13797f6b888.jpeg\"\/)
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