Can you eat mackerel after they've been sharked?
Submitted by Daniel_P on Tue, 2015-05-26 17:02
Hi all, just had an awesome week in Quobba with the best weather I have ever gotten.
i caught a spaniard and unfortunately it was sharked, where the shark bit was all cut off straight away and Filleted.
Any ideas?
ChrisG
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Eat it
Eat it
big john
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No worries
No worries, I've done it with a variety of fish, just cut a bit back from the bite back so its all clean flesh, bit like you should do with any gaff holes.
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Daniel_P
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Alright cool :) would've
Alright cool :) would've been a big mackie too!
meglodon
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If it's good enough
If it's good enough for a shark to eat, then it's good enough for you to eat. Well that's the way I look at it.
Rob H
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shit its better than if you
shit its better than if you killed it yourself, minimal stress, bled as good as it can be.
Tuna/swords bitten in half still sold well at Tsukiji fish market for us so long as the bite was fairly tidy
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randall df223
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One of the guys at steep
One of the guys at steep point last week only got the front half of a decent mack. still got 4 kgs of fillet off it. :)
Fish! HARD!
ranmar850
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Had a big one sharked last year at Ningaloo
Bitten off at the anal fin, big lump out of the back as well, still weighed 20KG
We normally release them that big, keep the little 10kg jobs if we need a killer.
Walfootrot
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Just remember that 1/2 a fish
Just remember that 1/2 a fish still counts as a whole fish for your bag limits
More drum lines, kill the bloody sharks!
tim-o
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Should
Be well bled lol
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spanishmackeral
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Yep eat it! Leave the bitten
Yep eat it!
Leave the bitten piece on until just before you fillet the fish
Bare flesh in an esky tends to go mushy and lose taste
So leaving the chewed up flesh on means only that will be ruined by the esky water
sandbar
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I have
eaten other things that look like they have been sharked.
johnno67
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Taste like shark Mackeral
Yep it will taste just like shark Mackeral