Metazoa info

[sven]

That's really interesting stuff!
Most of the shark you can buy in the fish stores here in Gothenburg is of the smaller varieties. We don't get tiger sharks in the nordic countries. I once had the chance to taste Brugd which I believe is called 'Basking shark' in English. It is a shame that this animal's meat is wasted for making shark fin soup, oil and so on. Shark fin soup is a bland and unapetizing dish, like many other Chinese traditional foods. Swallow's nests, and so on. I can almost not believe that some of these noble animals are slaughered just for their fins. Apparently, sometimes they just dump the carcasses into the sea after harvesting the fins.
Brugd has a taste that is somewhat similar to Havskatt (Atlantic wolffish). It is a cutlet fish with a meat that is much firmer than cod, for example.

Thanks. I could never eat sharks, it is one of the animals I never could even thinking of eating. I think that animals like that should be left alone. Tomorrow I will do one on a animal you won't even know is one.

Heh. Well, as a Gothenburger I tend to think of all fishes as potential food. I am looking forward to going out fishing for mackerel soon, for example. A few years ago we actually caught a small shark on our 'dragdurk' line for mackerel (no idea what dragdurk that's called in english) but we threw it back.
Looking forward to that post!