March 26, 2007: Shark sliced on dock
 

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The Daily Mail has the full story of the Chinese fishermen who gamely battled this whale shark.

It looks like once they got it to shore, there wasn't a crane large enough to manage it, so they just found that big ol' knife and cut the sucker up right there. The story says it was later cut up further, and became food. DAMN but that's a lotta meal. If you order shark in the town where this happened, I bet you get a sector of this.

The big knife/saw is a great part of this one. Do they keep such cutlery available for just such occasions?

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Let me be the first to say...... EEEeeeewwwwwwwwwwww! :vomitblu:

Actually I think it looks very tasty. And not just in a comedy let's-eat-the-IoTD way. Gives me a real yen for seafood, if you can possibly excuse the pun.

Anybody in the market for a shark skin suit?

And the saw really should be another meter or two long to work properly.

I wonder how long it was alive for before we dragged it from its' home and chopped it to bits?

that's not filleted. That's sliced.

I didn't know shark was citrus.

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Shark doesn't taste very good to me. They shoulda tossed him back for something tastier.

Well those knives & hooks are normal whale fletching tools, so I imagine they normally process whales and not whale sharks. I wonder if they taste similar since they eat basically the same thing.

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no thanks!

True that - it's got segments like a grapefruit. Only I don't see any seeds.

What does shark taste like anyways?

It tastes just like chicken. :rolleyes:

I was under the impression sharks ate whatever fell into their mouths (mostly fish, sea-mammals, license plates) and whale sharks ate plankton?
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it looks like most of it is blubber. the red swirls toward the top of the 'citrus segments' look like meat (a bit like salmon) .....but mostly, i think it's bubble gum flavored.

I agree...it looks like pink grapefruit.

What??? No one watched Planet Earth on DSC last night?? WTF. :bolt:

From memory, it's a very meaty fish - and similar to swordfish.

It doesn't have a strong fishy flavour (although this may depend on how it's cooked) and it has the same chewy consistency as meat.

In short - yummy.

While we're picking on people's word choice, I will observe that flensing is for whales and fletching is for arrows. [/pedant]

Carry on.

oh whatever. I knew it was something like that..... don't I at least get a C- for effort? ;)

You get an A+ when it comes to fish, in my book.

The king crab and the orca and the beef all look purty darn good too, but the salmon was... heaven.

Very salty and rough.

Well, the following from Wikipedia may be enlightening:

...All four whale sharks were imported from Taiwan, where whale sharks are dubbed as Tofu sharks because of the taste and texture of the flesh.

Tofu? Blegh, definitely throw it back. :vomitblu:

Who wants a chum stick?


BTW, never like the taste of shark. It has a mildewy taste to me.

Dolphin?

Tofu tastes good as long as you get it fresh and cook it the right way. Kind of in the same sense as broccoli.

I always thought shark tasted like eel...

One of the nicest tasting fish I ever consumed was a steak cut from what we called a river shark. They only grow to somewhere between 2 and 3 feet in length, and its flesh was extremely white, and very tasty - not overpowering at all.

BTW, whale sharks only eat krill, and do not have teeth. They are very gentle creatures, and grow to a huge size. We have often watched documentaries with people happily swimming with them - not for me, though. :eek:

It tastes just like chicken. of the sea !!!

Cant they leave anything in the bloody ocean????

I did use the F word, but remember that I might get a cyber slapping.

Oh and I dont mean to be offensive with the *they*, it just annoys me all the trouble we have with illegal whaling etc...its a pet peeve and whale sharks are gorgeous.

I agree.

Was there, at any time in the proceedings a Chinese guy standing on the back of the boat mumbling:" We need a bigger boat!, Chief!, Chief!, We NEED a bigger boat!".

Even as a big seafood (and Tofu) fan, I really cannot imagine myself eating either shark or turtle, I just basically like both species to much

(Now dolphins is another story, after swimming with the A-holes and constantly getting crapped/pissed on by a dominant male who had a lot of fun sticking his nose in my groin with considerable force, I always make sure I buy dolphin-UN-friendly tuna whenever I can)

I can't believe anyone would kill a whale shark. This is just disgusting to me although I know others don't have a problem with it.

Whale sharks are common in our northern waters. They wouldn't be killed by Australian fishermen because there's no market for that sort of flesh.

One of the most common sorts of shark flesh found in fish and chip shops here is Mako. I don't like shark meat which is usually sold as 'flake'. I wouldn't say the texture is like that or swordfish, although it's probably better for pregnant women than swordfish. ;)

That's an old myth that unfortunately is still common here. All species of shark are threatened, and few are caught (deliberately), commercially these days. I am not saying sharks are not caught in nets, they are. I am saying that the market for fish flesh does not make shark viable (generally), these days.

I have heard (and I cannot cite proof), that very often when we buy fish from the supermarket with a fancy name, it is usually some form of common fish (like Mekong Catfish - that is sold under hundreds of pseudonyms).

Chicken is fish of the barnyard.

What do you use as bait to fish for a whale shark? A hook through a single piece of krill?

Which part of what I said is a myth Dave? Local fish and chip shops in my area still have 'flake' on the menu. I agree that sharks are endangered, particularly the grey nurse. Almost extinct.

That particular catfish is usually labled as bassa and sometimes even nile perch.

I have not seen flake in a fish shop in Sydney for probably more than 30 years. I am surprised that they still sell it in Brisbane. Are you sure you are not confusing flake with hake (a fish caught around New Zealand, and often sold as generic fish)?

Today Tonight on Channel 7 last year did a story on fish, and they talked to a marine biologist and also had laboratory tests done, and they named the Mekong Catfish, as one of the most commonly sold fish, and that it was marketed under many names - not only two. They also mentioned other species of fish which are also sold with exotic names.

Absolutely positive I'm not confusing it with Hake.

You're right about the catfish. It is sold under many different names. Sometimes even just plain old cod.

You don't believe everything you see on TTN do you Dave? lol They've been caught out a few times for 'making up' stories.

Still Flake down here, I have seen Hake on the menu

All this banter about Flake, I had to get to the bottom of it.

Flake (fish)
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Flake is a term used in Australia to indicate the flesh of any of several species of small shark, particularly Gummy shark. The term probably arose in the late 1920s when the large-scale commercial shark fishery off the coast of Victoria was established. (Until this time, shark was generally an incidental catch rather than a targeted species.)

Flake rapidly became popular. It has a mild flavour, a soft texture that nevertheless remains well-defined after cooking, and a clean white appearance. These qualities, combined with the ready supply and a low price, saw flake become by far the most common type of fish to be served in Australian fish and chip shops.

Flake remains popular, but it is no longer especially cheap. By the mid to late years of the 20th century, Australia's growing population and more efficient harvesting methods had led to an alarming decline in shark stocks, and the fishery is now regulated in the hope of preventing any further deterioration.

Although the primary shark species sold as flake is the gummy shark, there are several others, as listed below.

Gummy shark, Mustelus antarcticus
School shark, Galeorhinus galeus
Elephant fish, Callorhinchus milii
Whiskery shark, Furgaleus macki
Saw shark (any of several Pristiophorus species)
Various dog sharks (Family Squalidae)
During the late 1960s it became apparent that larger individuals of several shark species were contaminated with high levels of heavy metals, particularly mercury, and a public outcry eventually led to a ban on the sale of large school sharks in 1972, which remained in effect until 1985.

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The mercury went away after 1985?
Or people didn't care after 1985?

No we care. In fact the NSW state government has banned eating fish caught in Sydney Harbour for the last few years, due to heavy metal and dioxin contamination.

Chris, thanks for the definition of flake, but I think we (down here), already know that (as Aliantha pointed out). It seems that flake is still sold in Brisbane and Melbourne, and it might well be sold in parts of Sydney (it is a very large place), but as I said previously, I have not seen it for sale in my local area for many years. The reason I asked Aliantha if she was confusing flake with hake, was that many people used to confuse the two - it was a common error, but since shark has gone off the menu in Sydney, and hake seems to have too, for that matter, the confusion has dissipated somewhat.

if you grind up an artificial hake, do you get fake hake flakes?

Hey, that is quite clever Tul. :D

Sell it to the Chinese, they pay better.

That'd make a pretty big sushi roll. (I know wrong country)