Black pouches with tendrils that wash up on beaches are not seaweed or kelp — they're the egg cases of fish called skates.; Some of these egg cases contain live fish embryos.; Holding a light up ...

These black pods are actually the egg cases or capsules of a skate, a flat, funny-looking fish. Skates are related to rays and sharks, and like both they have no bones — only cartilage.

That market would have paid him $3 to $5 per egg and $20 to $30 per dozen, FWC Capt. Jeff Ardelean said recently. Shaw was charged with a third-degree felony and fined $10,700, which is $100 per ...

Shaw was charged with a third-degree felony and fined $10,700, which is $100 per egg, FWC spokeswoman Carol Lyn Parrish said, and 92 of the eggs Shaw stole were reburied. The black market, however ...

Chelsea Todaro, Palm Beach Post, Associated Press TEQUESTA, Fla. (AP) — Sea turtle nesting is at its prime this month, and that means egg poachers like Glenn Shaw are on the prowl.