A fisherman was wounded by a stingray he accidentally caught Friday evening at Robert Moses State Park, officials said.

A fisherman with a rod and a reel at the state facility’s boat basin overlooking the Great South Bay in Babylon unintentionally hooked the creature Friday evening before it gave him a "gash" with its tail, George Gorman, New York State Parks regional director for Long Island, told Newsday in a telephone interview.

After he brought the fish up on the dock, the fisherman "got a cut on his forearm" from a barb on the stingray’s tail "because he was trying to take the hook out of the stingray's mouth," Gorman said of the fisherman. "It wasn’t a swimming incident, it wasn’t in the Atlantic Ocean. It was a fisherman that hooked a stingray and got sliced a little bit."

State park EMTs treated the man for the gash, Gorman added, before he was transported to a hospital "as a precaution," Gorman said.

While he did not have any data regarding stingray related injuries on Long Island, Gorman said such incidents "have happened in the past," and are generally considered "minor."

Stingrays are venomous fish who transmit their toxins through the barbs of their tails. Stings to different parts of the body can lead to difficulty breathing, nausea and vomiting, headache, sweating, fainting and even paralysis, according to the Mount Sinai Health Systems website.

Stingray injuries often occur when a person unintentionally steps on or "otherwise disturbs" them, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Their tails cause "painful puncture wounds" that are generally only fatal when the tail strikes deep into the abdomen or chest. In some instances, a stinger can remain in a person’s wound and possibly cause infection.