Originally posted by Nefarious
How much do they weigh?
Tell us how they taste if you eat them, It seems like a shark that lives and feeds in your river's would taste very bad, probably tastes like filled baby diapers and beer cans.
Just kidding, but I am curious as to how you cook them and how they taste!
shark is damn good if cooked right. it holds together on a grill and doesn't flake apart when flipping.
I always trim off the skin before cooking. if you don't sometimes you get a nasty flavor that develops. it's very faint and kind of ammonia like, my guess is it's something similar to the adrenaline taste you get if you shoot a deer or an elk when they have been panicked and running.
if you spray the steaks with a little lemon juice (I use a spray bottle on fine mist) before you put them on the grill, a foam like grease will rise out when it's almost ready to flip. if you push that off the edge before turning them it will remove almost all of the 'fishy taste' from the meat. a couple people I know who don't care for fish but were willing to try it said they liked the shark cooked this way because it didn't have the taste that they avoid fish for.
it also holds together well for batter frying small pieces.
IIRC it's less than 4% fat, very high protein meat.
