00:00Spine jar. Here we go. Spine jar. Spine jar. Here we go. Who's got the spine jar?
00:04The other spine jar.
00:07The last time we did this, the last few times we've done this with you, we didn't catch anything.
00:12None. Zero.
00:15This one need more water? Yep. This one's ready to go. I need another bucket.
00:19So we're at Seal Beach in Southern California, better known as Ray Bay.
00:23And the reason why it's called Ray Bay is for at least 60 years,
00:27round stingrays seem to aggregate here, probably because there's a power plant that discharges warm water
00:32and the sediments are fine, which makes for an ideal stingray.
00:45So I would say in the time I've been doing this, we've probably caught 40,000 stingrays,
00:50measured them, determined their sex, tagged them and released them.
00:53We've even done studies looking at densities and we've estimated at this beach on one day,
00:57there are probably over 16,000 rays in an area the size of a football field.
01:15Well, I would say Southern California is the world leader in terms of stingray injuries,
01:20mainly because of this species.
01:21It's become more abundant during El Nino's.
01:24We get more of them up from the south and they come closer to shore.
01:28So this year we're expecting record numbers.
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