re: sting ray barbs(flounder gigging spinoff)

It doesn't have venom, but the barb is similar to blue crabs and a swordfish.

They have a marine bacteria that will infect and the infection can get painful. My pinky swelled up to the circumference of my index finger.




While on the subject, we shucked a peck of live crabs. The "merus" or the little barbs on the "bicep" of the claws are what would jab us while we overcompensated on opening them. We were never pinced by the claws. Got infections on our hands and finger......always use gloves.