Any shark eaters around here...

[Rammer Jammer]

I ordered shark at a restaurant when I was 8 or 9. Didn't like it but luckily my mom took one for the team and gave me her dinner while she ate my shark.

What 9 year old boy wouldn't wanna try shark?

 

[BearBio]

A buddy used to fish for shark while we were bottom fishing. He'd float a large squid. He would keep and eat blues but, as someone said, they had to be blooded and soaked. We would get thresher from him or sometimes buy it, if we could find it. They used to sell it as "swordfish" (you can check the skin for roughness to tell. That's why swordfish is sold with the skin attached). Thresher and mako are good broiled with fresh dill or made into fish tacos! Way too expensive now!

 

[charlie sherrill]

As mentioned by Stevens, the Black Tip shark is very tasty. I like the smaller ones under 40 lbs. and I think they are best when grilled freshly caught. I marinate them in butter, lemon juice, and Cajun seasoning and cook them over a very hot charcoal grill. They are decent battered and fried but I like them better grilled.

 

[cbore]

I got hooked on char broiled shark while working in Indonesia, perhaps my favorite seafood. I have a tattoo of a shark on my ankle so I merely pointed to the tattoo when ordering in restaurants where no English was spoken

 

[walkin jack]

Black tip are fairly frequent visitors to our beaches here. Very tasty. They are fun to catch too because, unlike other species of sharks they will give you a couple of good jumps while you're reelin' 'em in.

Shark meat is really good in dishes like Courtbouillion (Koo-bee-yon)

 

[03hemi]

I've had it, taste like chicken.

 

[BearBio]

Funny==In SoCal, skate is a delicacy==in Alaska they throw them away as "inedible".

 

[andy52]

I've eaten almost every fish that's eatable. Shark are not high on my list of favorites however, I find it rather musky in flavor.

 

[Onomea]

Only a coupla times in high end Chinese restaurants as shark fin soup. The soup was pretty good, but whether that's the shark fin or whatever else they put in there, I dunno.

 

[walter o]

My local super market sells black tip shark .It is good broiled . They caution against any shark that has a ammonia smell.

 

[Kurusu]

I've had it, taste like chicken.

I got to say you got some funny tasting chicken.

 

[misswired]

I've always been told that most of the scallops we get around here are actually shark meat. Not sure but if they are, bravo!!

I've always heard the fake scallops come from eels....Those round snake like creatures that writhe around on your hook hissing with a huge mouth full of teeth.

Shark meat is good the first go around....refrigerated left-overs....meh....they smell rank.

 

[rwsmith]

Really..

yes indeed. Because of it's large fins blue shark is a prey of "finners". I find this an unnecessary cruelty, they capture them, cut their fins off and throw them back in the water. Sharks go to the bottom without fins. And sharks can drown.

Yeah, if you are going to catch a shark eat the whole dam thing, not just lop it's fins off and throw him back in to wobble around until he dies.

 

[Kurusu]

I've always heard the fake scallops come from eels....Those round snake like creatures that writhe around on your hook hissing with a huge mouth full of teeth.

Shark meat is good the first go around....refrigerated left-overs....meh....they smell rank.

Eels are pretty tasty too.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Another vote for the "eel is tasty".

 

[SuperMan]

Used to get shark all the time but have not seen it for sale in any market I go to for years...

Bob

 

[JJEH]

Just a caution. It's not good to eat too much of it due to mercury.
Mercury is an accumulative toxin and every molecule of it that an organism takes in stays in their system because there is no biological process for eliminating it from the body.
All seafood has trace amounts of mercury, but large apex predators like sharks have higher concentrations than other seafood, due to the fact that they consume so many other smaller creatures that each contribute their own mercury content to the shark's accumulated load of mercury.

Indeed, shark meat is toxic. Plus many sharks are considered endangered species and we should just leave them alone. And, as stated above, more and more restrictions are coming regarding shark fishing.

Btw, finning is the process of cutting off the fins for shark fin soup. The shark is alive during the process and is being thrown overboard, causing him/her to sink to the bottom and drown. Sharks need to swim in order to breath. It's animal cruelty, we wouldn't do it to any other animal, not even a stinkin' coyote.

 

[misswired]

Just a caution. It's not good to eat too much of it due to mercury.
Mercury is an accumulative toxin and every molecule of it that an organism takes in stays in their system because there is no biological process for eliminating it from the body.
All seafood has trace amounts of mercury, but large apex predators like sharks have higher concentrations than other seafood, due to the fact that they consume so many other smaller creatures that each contribute their own mercury content to the shark's accumulated load of mercury.

Please don't take this the wrong way!!!!

I will be honored if my tombstone reads.......He Died From Eating Too Many Fish....

 

[ontheroad20]

My understanding is that, shortly after death, shark's skin excretes urine, which turns into ammonia and ruins the meat. The remedy? Skin a shark immediately after killing it.

When I was a child, living in Mexico in the 1960s, we caught many sharks when fishing for Sierra. We simply tossed the sharks on the beach and left them for the scavengers. The locals said the meat was poisonous, infested with ammonia. Nobody every skinned the sharks. They were considered by-catch; garbage fish.

Its because sharks don't have kidneys, the flesh (the meat you eat) act as their kidneys. I have eaten shark before but after learning this I havn't sence.

 

[BearBio]

Another fish that is good fresh (never frozen) is marlin. We went fishing in Baja and were served the day's catch every night. Quite tasty! turns to mush once it's frozen. We were throwing back triggerfish and later I learned they were the best tasting fish down there!

Due to the political situation, we go halibut fishing out of Homer every couple of years.