not sure im doing this the best and easiest way, how does everyone clean and bleed a shark when you catch it? doesnt the head and tail have to be attached till back on land?
Catch it quickly, bleed it, gut it, ice it, then skin it as soon as you’re legally allowed to … 
I don’t fish for shark or eat them these days (just ain’t my thang), but when I was a kid, I remember Dad and his friends just steaked them by cutting them up just like a log of cookie dough–the same way I used to steak-cut king mackerel back before the mercury scare. Although I don’t eat sharks for certain reasons as an adult, I must confess that I remember them being quite tasty when steaked and fried.
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When I get them, I do the best I can to tail rope them and slit deep, stabbin’ slashes all the way down the gills and throw them back in the water. The fighting seems to get the blood flowing and help get it outta the system. Then, get them back on deck when there’s not much life left. Cut them from their ass to lower lip and scoop out all the entrails.
Back to the shed and skin it. Then, just cut 'em into slabs and debone.
Marinate in whatever you like, season to taste, and grill 'em up! IMHO, shark steaks are AWESOME!!!
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and don’t forget your permit.
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The fresher the better on sharks. Like the above statements, cut it to the back bone behind the head… then straight to the butt clean it out rack your knife along the back bone a few times dip it back in the water then straight on ice. However you fillet it make sure you remove all red meat.
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permit?
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Spanish he is talking about the federal HMS permit necessary to be able to keep tuna, swords, and some shark.
https://hmspermits.noaa.gov/PermitList.asp
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I’ll do bleeding, butchering, steaking, video next time I catch one.
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NMFS = No More Fishing Season
“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”
That would be nice sells. What kind of shark are we talking about eating here? Any one better than the other?
Mako is by far the best eating shark and one of the best eating fish around. IMO
Inshore, I like a spiny dog fish, then black tip, then bonnet head. We did catch a monster Hammer Head, sword fishing this fall but cut it loose. Sells stated that the bigger are not as good to eat. From prior info on all his posts I’ll take his word. I had a slab of Tiger shark but did not like it… it was brought home whole and it was not bled out… nasty.
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We kept a bunch of 3-4’ sand sharks years ago in Daytona. They were good eating, real firm meat. They fried up real good!
As far as the permit goes, I wish somebody would clear it up. I don’t understand what species or where?
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http://www.dnr.sc.gov/regs/saltwaterfish.html
Sharks
Federal Highly Migratory Species Permit required in federal waters. All sharks must be landed with fins, head and tail naturally attached. Check current federal regulations by visiting https://hmspermits.noaa.gov/.
Species Closed Season Bag Limit Minimum
Size Limit Restrictions
Dogfish (spiny & smooth)
Atlantic Sharpnose 1 per person per day
Bonnethead 1 per person per day
Blacknose, Blacktip, Blue, Bull, Finetooth, Great Hammerhead, Scalloped Hammerhead, Smooth Hammerhead, Lemon, Shortfin Mako, Nurse, Porbeagle, Spinner, Thresher, Tiger and Oceanic Whitetip Sharks 1 shark per vessel per day from this group 54-inch FL
Atlantic Angel, Basking, Bignose, Dusky, Galapagos, Longfin Mako, Narrowtooth, Night, Caribbean Reef, Sandbar, Sevengill, Caribbean Sharpnose, Silky, Bigeye Sixgill, Sixgill, Smalltail, Bigeye Thresher, Bigeye Sand Tiger, Sand Tiger, Whale and White Sharks Possession prohibited Possession prohibited If caught sharks from this group must be released immediately.
the most recent compliance guide
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms/Compliance_Guide/Rec/Rec_Compliance_Guide_Total.pdf
Used to sell shark to a fellow named Alphonso on Mosquito Beach…Dollar per pound as is…Anyway, I immediatley cut off head…then gut… then cut off tail…I was always told sharks have kidneys and will release the contents and taint meat. While I believe they have kidneys, I think, I dont know about poisoning of meat.I dont keep anymore because I have not studied the acceptable species to be comfortable legally. I do however love the fight and have a great hole by Rockville to catch and release many up to 20 lbs. Used to clean up small ones 1 - 2 pounds…cut slices width wise…shove a slice of butter and slice of lemon in cut…season…make tin foil tent…pour in half cup water…bake on 375 for 20 mins…good fluffy white meat…none of that famous shark stench
Sharks pee through their skin so in that sense, the meat is already tainted!
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Originally posted by CalibogueSharks pee through their skin so in that sense, the meat is already tainted!
Not really, People think that sharks urinate through their skin because of high concentrations of urea that are found there. High concentrations of urea are retained in the tissues of sharks to regulate osmotic pressure. Basically, the urea helps create an enviroment that is similar to salt water and reduces the need for the shark to drink water or excrete salts. Excess urea is still excreted in the urine in the same place as the solids. Some science class crap…
Here is a quote and a link that should shed some light on renal excretion of urine.
“Marine elasmobranch fishes retain relatively high levels of urea to balance the osmotic stress of living in seawater. To maintain osmotic balance and reduce the energetic costs of making urea, it is important for these animals to minimize urea excretion to the environment. We have isolated a novel 2.2-kb cDNA from Squalus acanthias (spiny dogfish shark) kidney encoding a 380-amino acid hydrophobic protein (ShUT) with 66% identity to the rat facilitated urea transporter protein UT-A2. Injection of ShUT cRNA into Xenopus oocytes induced a 10-fold increase in 14C-labeled urea uptake, inhibitable by phloretin (0.35 mM). ShUT mRNA is expressed in kidney and brain. Related mRNA species are found in liver, blood, kidney, gill, intestine, muscle, and rectal gland. This is the first facilitated urea transporter to be identified in a marine fish. We propose that the ShUT protein is involved in urea reabsorption by the renal tubules of the dogfish shark, which in turn minimizes urea loss in the urine.”
http://ajpregu.physiology.org/cgi/co...act/276/2/R622
http://www.elasmo-research.org/educa...shark/tmao.htm
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NMFS = No More
that’s interesting sells thanks for the post
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Isn’t their two types of Mako sharks. Longfin and shortfin? I noticed the last fishing program I watched, they had to throw back a longfin mako, but kept a shortfin. Is this correct?
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Thanks for the schooling…
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Originally posted by sellsfishquote:
Originally posted by CalibogueSharks pee through their skin so in that sense, the meat is already tainted!
Not really, People think that sharks urinate through their skin because of high concentrations of urea that are found there. High concentrations of urea are retained in the tissues of sharks to regulate osmotic pressure. Basically, the urea helps create an enviroment that is similar to salt water and reduces the need for the shark to drink water or excrete salts. Excess urea is still excreted in the urine in the same place as the solids. Some science class crap…
Here is a quote and a link that should shed some light on renal excretion of urine.
"Marine elasmobranch fishes retain relatively high levels of urea to balance the osmotic stress of living in seawater. To maintain osmotic balance and reduce the energetic costs of making urea, it is important for these animals to minimize urea excretion to the environment. We have isolated a novel 2.2-kb cDNA from Squalus acanthias (spiny dogfish shark) kidney encoding a 380-amino acid hydrophobic protein (ShUT) with 66% identity to the rat facilitated urea transporter protein UT-A2. Injection of ShUT cRNA into Xenopus oocytes induced a 10-fold increase in 14C-labeled urea uptake, inhibitable by phloretin (0.35 mM). ShUT mRNA is expressed in kidney and brain. Related mRNA species are found in liver, blood, kidney, gill, intestine, muscle, and rectal gland. This is the first facilitated urea transporter to be identified in a marine fish. We propose that the ShUT protein is involved in urea reabsorption by the renal tubules of the dogfish s