Last Saturday, the New York outfit "American Bowhunters" sponsored a cownose ray tournament on the Patuxent River, and in the run-up to it drew the condemnation of two animal rights groups, Fish Feel and SHARK, who asked Maryland's Department of ... Read More

SHARK and sister organization Fish Feel have also petitioned Maryland Department of Natural Resources Secretary Mark Belton to take action against the contest and slaughter of the cownose rays.

Is the state going to act responsibly or stand by and let countless more of these animals be massacred?" asks Mary Finelli, president of Fish Feel. SHARK and sister organization Fish Feel have also petitioned Maryland Department of Natural Resources ... Read More

Our (slightly edited) letter appears in the online, and May 19, 2016 print edition, of the New York Times.

Animal protection groups are asking the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to prevent bowfishers from carrying out yet more bloodbaths on native and beloved cownose rays of the Chesapeake Bay – another cownose ray killing "contest" is set for June ... Read More