Shark Meat...

[capt. apathy]

And take a gun

when I was a kid I went fishing for shark with a friend and his older brother.  we ended up with 3 blues 5-8' long.

he first caught one on a line, then made several cuts in it (including the gut cavity) then tossed it back in on a 30' rope.

the rest we got with a .30-06 and a gaff, as the came up to snack on the first one.

[JB73]

Originally posted by Lazerus
And take a gun:D

oh so now you have to shoot the little defensless fishies!?

i finally agree with beetle.... ban guns... if only to save the lowley fishies from you barbarians. it seems no creature on this green earth is safe from wild, barbarian, gun-toting, neanderthals, who's only goal in life is to kill one of each living creature they see in life.

next thing you know there will be chartered "shark sniping" helocopters going out over that "barrel" the fishies live in. high powered rifles that fire automatically will make the sea boil, and foam forth red. what a hideous thought.

once all the fishies are dead the gun-toting barbarians will have to come back to land, and kill the next predator in line.... their fellow man. it is the only logical step to follow shark sniping.

shooting sharks is the begining of the demise of the human race, all because guns were invented. there wouldnt be any guns if it weren't for those hate-loving, hell-bent-on destriction chinese back in the 12th century. too bad man wont live long enough to build a time machine to go back and stop the invention of gun powder.

i myself blame the NRA for the current state of shark massacre. they promote it, with no concern for their fellow man. everyone knows that people with guns makes violence. somone should make a documentary proving that. then maybe people would wise up and see that the end is coming. all because of wild, barbarian, gun-toting, neanderthals who shoot fishies.

[capt. apathy]

LOL,
nice rant, good form, excellent execution of technique.

[LWACE]

well fellas, im gettin ready to cook the beast, im gonna try the grilling idea, btw its a blacktip shark steak, as you most of you been sayin, thats the reason i decided to try it, it looks very lean with not much fat, looks good, ill get back to ya all on what i thought:D

[Lizking]

Always remember when eating large predators:



Better him than me.

[LWACE]

lol, well that was some of the best seafood ive eaten, definet different texture, didnt taste fishy but tasted good, didnt break apart thats good, i think it and salmon are about the same IMHO, i like salmons taste abit better, but i like the sharks leaness and texture, good stuff overall, definetly worth the 6$

[capt. apathy]

if I remember corectly shark steaks are about 90% protien

[Bodhi]

Originally posted by Replicant
I found this which I thought was quite amusing!

It is with immense interest that I have followed the correspondence re sharks in Diver's letters section. For months, I've bitten my tongue - not as convincingly as a bloody shark would have done, perhaps, but bitten it all the same. But now I feel I must speak out.
     I'm a reasonable, fair-minded, enlightened sort of fellow (as we divers go). But after long, sober reflection, it seems to me that the pro-shark lobby, as represented by your hello-clouds-hello-trees-weave-your-own-yoghurt brigade, should be strung up by the thumbs and machine-gunned.
     I say this with authority, because I have personally experienced the danger posed by sharks, as few of Diver's readership have done. You see, in 1976, when most of you were still in nappies, I saw Jaws.
     Many correspondents have dwelt on dwindling numbers of sharks, as if this were somehow to be deplored. But I learned from Steven Spielberg's admirable documentary, as did many of my generation, that you need only ONE of the bastards to wreak complete havoc.
     In the course of a holiday season, a single great white can bisect a score of attractive young women, ruin a perfectly sound hardboat and swallow distinguished marine biologists whole.
     In today's world, this sort of behaviour is simply unacceptable.
     In the May issue, Martin Leach protested that Jack's Fish & Chip Shop (Harpenden) was offering a free shark steak with every chicken dinner sold. This is blatantly unfair to chickens.
     Sharks are violently anti-social. Chickens, on the other hand, are generally peaceable and positively motivated creatures. When did you last hear of a diver being ripped limb from limb by a chicken?
     In my view, Jack should have been actively encouraged to extend the offer to two shark steaks with every carton of mushy peas.
     Sadly, it transpired that, far from cashing in on a promising market trend, Jack has ceased altogether to serve shark meat - not because he was converted by the bleeding-heart shark apologists, but simply because he couldn't obtain enough product.
     Why couldn't he? The Leaches of this world would claim, I'm sure, that over-fishing is threatening their beloved, sinister, blank-eyed alien killing machines with extinction.
     Bollocks. Sharks have been around for 400 million years (as argued by Lisa Chappell in the May issue). You don't imagine that a handful of Russian fish factories are going to put paid to the most successful creature on the planet after the red ant?
     When the puny little trawlers get within 100 miles of Shark City, the sharks know they're coming. That's because of the special audio-electronic smell sensors in their eyes.
     Sharks don't need passports. They don't have to put their houses up for sale. They don't have vanloads of furniture. Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered by water. When their electro-biochemical sense organs tell them that Harpenden Jack and his shark-steak hunters are only five days' sail away, what are they going to do?
     Exactly. They're going to move. My guess is that most of the sharks are now hanging out five miles down in the Marianas Trench, getting fat and happy on those freakish mutants with the traffic-light eyes and the teeth like Janet Street-Porter's.
     Make no mistake, Lisa - in a few million years' time, it's sharks who'll be buying fossilised human teeth, not the other way round.
     So I hope that's put the record straight. The guide books tell you that if a shark attacks you, thump it hard on the nose. My advice is, don't wait until it attacks - thump it anyway.

What a trip, got "bumped" by a shark trying out surfing in Florida on vacation.  Never felt the urge to go again.... funy how 27 stiches will do that!

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
Rocky Mountain Oysters... MMMmmmm!

So, you like testicles huh?
-SW