good eats,but then again you can deepfry a piece of pinebark and it would taste good,the meat was layered,1/4 inch thick meat then membrane 1/4 meat,then membrane, due to the fact these critters dont expire that easy,and put up with more fight than you could imagine,it stressed out the meat making the membrane a bit bloody,other than that the meat is good.looking back a bang stick would have been a better choice of tool to harvest these beasts, we search the flats every summer for this giant ray,they are still there..august is best.. good luck