Is is true that Tresher Shark is good ?

[aguafina]

whoa!!!! I'm out of this one.

Agua Fina...out
ps Thresher tastes great!! almost like swordfish.

[Spearingfish]

Originally Posted by Iyadiver

One time I saw a thresher shark in 100 feet of water, scarry black big eye, not too big , maybe 100lbs. A friend of mine said that it taste good....is this true ? I thought shark has lots of Mercury in them ?

Is it Ok to shoot this in the US ? In my place there is no restriction.

IYA

thresher and mako are excellent. r&r fish these once a year for the turney. mercury is of concern but eaten once in a blue moon you will be fine.

eugene

[Spinal Tap]

Originally Posted by Amphibious

wow - this thread reminds me of 5th grade recess

I;ve eaten mako abd shovelnose (guitar fish). the mako was fantastic the shovel nose tasted like ass.

Really, what kind of ass? For those of us who don't know what ass tastes like, can you give some detail descriptions?

Sorry couldn't pass it up. O.K recess is over.

Seriously though, if you saw the thresher clearly then you should have seen its tail. That tail is to be feared as much if not more than it's mouth. The shark swims up to a school of bait and uses it's tail to "bitch slap" the bait. The tail may stun some and slice some, then it comes back around to pick up the injured and dead fish.

So if you're going to spear one and you don't stone it, I'm not sure how you'd go about landing it. Because if you get near it, it can bitch slap you.

[Bill McIntyre]

For what its worth, thresher is considered excellent table fare in California, and is usually for sale in the fish department of supermarkets right next to the swordfish steaks.

A friend of mine shot one while diving from the beach in San Diego County last year. I thought I had a photo, but can't seem to find it now. As I recall, it was about 70 pounds and he took it with a small Euro gun.

[deeph2o86]

Hi,
I don't recomend it! I guess if it is prepared right then it could be good, but there are so many other fish that taste good. Besides why kill a shark if your not even sure if it is good? Thats a n enormous waste!

[Bill McIntyre]

Originally Posted by deeph2o86

Hi,
I don't recomend it! I guess if it is prepared right then it could be good, but there are so many other fish that taste good. Besides why kill a shark if your not even sure if it is good? Thats a n enormous waste!

I don't understand why you don't recommend it. Have you tasted it? As far as preparing it right goes, most any recipe for swordfish should work fine. It doesn't require any special handling. Just last week I notice thresher steaks in Ralph's supermarket fish section for $9+ per pound, so someone must think it tastes pretty good.

Why kill a tuna, a wahoo, or any other fish if you aren't sure its good? Probably because someone else told you it was good, so you thought it was worth a try. Why wouldn't the same principle apply to sharks?

Come to think of it, I wasn't sure beef was good until someone killed a cow and let me try it.

Do you have some information indicating threshers are threatened? They are so thick off the Southern California coast that they have fishing tournaments for them every summer, and they catch a lot of them.

[Freediver81]

This topic should be called "The never ending story"

[PhilLJCA]

1.) Thresher shark is one of the better tasting sharks and it does command a high price per pound. personally i think its overrated but whatever...if you want to taste one, buy a piece in the store...dont be cheap though and think that youll spear one and then find out...(yes i think that its lame to shoot something if you havent tasted it and it is available)

2.) as a teen i speared sharks (blues, leopards, angel, lemon, soupfin), but i dont do it anymore. for one thing i hate watching them die, they make a hissing groaning sounds that resemble crying and their faces are very expressive,...(im well aware of the potential hyprocrisy in this statement--eg its ok to kill tuna since they look like an expressionless silvery torpedo, but you might think again if you actually watched a shark die) they can also hurt you, even the little ones. if you check out the data on threshersharks you will notice that the resiliency rate of the species is not very good. their population doubling time, like that of all sharks, is on the higher end of the spectrum. in california, new england, and the sea of cortez they have been massively depleted. theres a reason why there isnt a listing for thresher in the spearfishing records.

3.) the tail on a 8 ft (small) thresher shark could easily snap your neck, the jaws are pretty ferocious even on the lil ones...unlike a marlin youve got danger on both ends: there is no safe direction to approach a speared thresher. another thing is that most pelagic fish will suffer some sort of cardiac meltdown near the end of their battle against the spear...not so for a shark, which makes subdueing them a lot more tricky.

ive seen thresher while freediving...i left them alone and they stayed away from me...im pretty happy with that arrangement.

[Aquatic_Being]

I've heard that thresher are the best tasting shark. I like shark, very firm meat, kinda like halibut. With leapord shark you have to cut their tail and bleed em, I dont know if you have to do the same thing with thresher. If I had a chance to shoot one I would. Check the regs first, dont want to shoot any illegal game.