{"id":8720,"date":"2013-08-12T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T14:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=8720"},"modified":"2013-08-12T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T14:45:22","slug":"common-stingray-dasyatis-pastinaca-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?p=8720","title":{"rendered":"Common stingray (Dasyatis pastinaca) in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit:<\/strong>\u00a0John Francis Ababio (Ghana)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The two photos are for the Common stingray, (<i>Dasyatis pastinaca<\/i>) in Elmina fish market along the coast in the Central Region of Ghana.\u00a0Even though the species is not very common and its marketing is not very good, it is quite expensive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Stingray-in-Ghana-01.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8729\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?attachment_id=8729\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Stingray-in-Ghana-01.jpg?fit=1087%2C825&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1087,825\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Stingray in Ghana 01\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Stingray-in-Ghana-01.jpg?fit=750%2C569&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8729\" alt=\"Stingray in Ghana 01\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Stingray-in-Ghana-01-300x227.jpg?resize=300%2C227\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Stingray-in-Ghana-01.jpg?resize=300%2C227&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Stingray-in-Ghana-01.jpg?resize=1024%2C777&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Stingray-in-Ghana-01.jpg?w=1087&amp;ssl=1 1087w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Stingray-in-Ghana-02.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8728\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/?attachment_id=8728\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Stingray-in-Ghana-02.jpg?fit=1016%2C765&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1016,765\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Stingray in Ghana 02\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Stingray-in-Ghana-02.jpg?fit=750%2C565&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8728\" alt=\"Stingray in Ghana 02\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Stingray-in-Ghana-02-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Stingray-in-Ghana-02.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fishconsult.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Stingray-in-Ghana-02.jpg?w=1016&amp;ssl=1 1016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit:\u00a0John Francis Ababio (Ghana) The two photos are for the Common stingray, (Dasyatis pastinaca) in Elmina fish market along the coast in the Central Region of Ghana.\u00a0Even though the species is not very common and its marketing is not very good, it is quite expensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[359,291,293],"tags":[3572,3570,3508,1907,1286,2512,2805,3571],"class_list":["post-8720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquaculture-and-artisanal-fishery-global-information-sharing","category-gallery-2","category-photos","tag-common-stingray","tag-dasyatis-pastinaca","tag-elmina","tag-fish-marketing","tag-ghana","tag-market-demand","tag-market-price","tag-rays","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1NIq6-2gE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8720"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8731,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions\/8731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishconsult.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}