Asian Medicine

Peru and 12 other nations now seek to protect these creatures, whose meat and gill plates are coveted in China. By Laurel Neme PUBLISHED Fri Jan 08, 2016 Giant manta rays captured the world’s attention last April when a fisherman in northern Peru unintentionally caught a behemoth weighing 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms). The accidental snagging of this large ray…