# @usfws on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DYNCEXmCZaG
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65276307-usfws-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-05-11T15:36:40.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (@usfws) — https://gondola.cc/usfws

## Caption

Meet the Western Atlantic Torpedo Ray, a very large, blobby, thick-tailed electric ray that's not well understood or well known by folks who live in New England.⚡

If you walk the beaches, you might come across this species stranded onshore in places like Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This week's "Fish of the Week" podcast episode highlights Western Atlantic Torpedo's amazing features, what can be learned from stranded fish, what can be gained by the volunteers who rescue these animals and the researchers who study the samples from necropsies, and how to report a stranded animal on the beach. Our guest is Carol "Krill" Carson from the New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance. 🐟

A stranded Torpedo Ray on Ellis Landing Beach in Eastham, MA. 📷 Kathy Miller/NECWA volunteer
Close-up of Torpedo Ray eyes and spiracles. 📷 Kathy Miller 
Ovaries showing the classic green yolks and electrocyte tissue from a female who stranded on Long Point, Provincetown, MA. 📷 Amy Rothenberg/NECWA volunteer

#AllTheFish #fish #CapeCod

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