N.L. sealers having easy time of spring hunt

[Ron in Regina]

Chicken.



Just kidding. You've had Bear right? If you have, you may remember a greasiness you get on the roof of your mouth, or that livery flavour, if it wasn't cooked or hung properly. Well, add to that, that typical sea taste. And voila!!! There you have it.

Would you be surprised if I told I don't like eating Bear either?

Oh...Ugh....I've had Bear, & I generally don't care for Mammal Carnivores (or in
that case, Omnivores). Yeah....you're really not selling me on try'n Seal Meat. :lol:

I think I'll pass on that opportunity. Could that make it into Dog Food. What you
describe I'd bet my Dogs would love to eat, or at least roll in for a while....:-|

 

[CDNBear]

Oh...Ugh....I've had Bear, & I generally don't care for Mammal Carnivores (or in
that case, Omnivores). Yeah....you're really not selling me on try'n Seal Meat. :lol:

I told you!!!

I think I'll pass on that opportunity. Could that make it into Dog Food. What you
describe I'd bet my Dogs would love to eat, or at least roll in for a while....:-|

Ya think? Who do you think got what I stuffed in my pockets when I asked to be excused to go out and play?

Gawd bless sled dogs, they'll eat anything!

My Grandfather was a great trader, he could trade a used spark plug for a crate of beans. But he sure did like bringing home some weirdass shyte. Canned Caribou is gross, why the f!ck do people boil perfectly good meat. I can understand the whole thing before the invention of the icebox, but for the love of gawd STOP IT ALREADY!!!

Moose, Caribou, Deer, needs to be roasted, stewed, broiled baked, grilled, souped or other wise held to a flame. Boiling it is wrong and should be a crime!!!

But I digress, without a doubt, the nastiest thing he ever brought home was Seal. I have no doubt that sealers beat the lil buggers because their Moms made them eat it. Now they just take it out them big eyed Cod killers.

 

[Praxius]

It's part of your identity and makeup how?

I'm not advocating that they shouldn't be allowed to do what they do, so your second & third paragraph there are both steaming piles of BS.

Go back to feeling inferior now.

We all know I'm superior to every other living creature on this planet in every possible way, it's physically impossible for me to think or feel inferior because it's just not true.

But all seriousness aside, you said nobody outside of Newfoundland gives a damn about the seal hunt, and I alone for starters represent the proof that your claim is wrong, simply because I don't live in Newfoundland and I have an interest in it.

I could say in relation that I have no background or general interest in the oil sands, growing corn & wheat, Celine Dion, etc.... but that doesn't mean those things are not a part of the overall Canadian Identity.

Our collective of "Regional" identities directly make up our country's overall identity.... that's the point, and just because I don't have an interest in any of the above listed, doesn't mean someone else where I live has no interest in those things either... AKA: I don't tend to speak for everyone else when it's not ask of me.

In other words, the only thing that's a pile of steaming BS is your original post I responded to..... and with any luck, you'll now see why.

Bow before my omnipotence. :lol: just messing, lighten up, shiesh.

 

[Praxius]

Broiled flipper, brain fritters, and canned like the Newfies do to all game meat. Ruining it of course.

Brain isn't something I haven't tried yet, but ever since Hannibal, I've had an interest.

"I.... Like.... Chicken thoup!"

But yeah, canning meat is so damn wrong... freeze it, but don't can it, blech.

Duck, Rabbit, Moose, Deer, etc. are all nice... mmmmmm..... when wild that is. I bought a frozen duck in the store here and being farmed, it tasted 98% like chicken, I was so disappointed.

I'd give flipper a go though.

Of course I best make it soon, cuz when I get to Australia it'll be harder to get seal.... but I'll have Kangaroo and the sort to try. Of course my wife says most people only feed kangaroo to their dogs as pet food. I guess there's not enough fat on them, so you can only flash fry the meat a minute or two on each side and serve it still kinda bloody, or else it goes too tough.

 

[CDNBear]

Brain isn't something I haven't tried yet, but ever since Hannibal, I've had an interest.

8O........:lol:

"I.... Like.... Chicken thoup!"

In my circle of friends, whenever someone messes up, the typical response is "I like thoup". In fact we devouted an entire page to it on a networking site for awhile.

But yeah, canning meat is so damn wrong... freeze it, but don't can it, blech.

Even freezing it ruins some attributes of it. I like it fresh from being hung. That's when SCB makes our first Venison dish of the year, Peppered Venison, served over egg noodles. It is the most amazing thing I've ever eaten.

Duck, Rabbit, Moose, Deer, etc. are all nice... mmmmmm..... when wild that is. I bought a frozen duck in the store here and being farmed, it tasted 98% like chicken, I was so disappointed.

I feel the same way, I prefer my wild game, and fish. In fact, we rarely buy any proteins in the store.

I'd give flipper a go though.

Again, you can have my share.

Of course I best make it soon, cuz when I get to Australia it'll be harder to get seal.... but I'll have Kangaroo and the sort to try. Of course my wife says most people only feed kangaroo to their dogs as pet food. I guess there's not enough fat on them, so you can only flash fry the meat a minute or two on each side and serve it still kinda bloody, or else it goes too tough.

I don't mind very rare meat, so long as I hang it myself. Or a I get it from my local butcher, whom I trust.

 

[DurkaDurka]

We all know I'm superior to every other living creature on this planet in every possible way, it's physically impossible for me to think or feel inferior because it's just not true.

But all seriousness aside, you said nobody outside of Newfoundland gives a damn about the seal hunt, and I alone for starters represent the proof that your claim is wrong, simply because I don't live in Newfoundland and I have an interest in it.

I could say in relation that I have no background or general interest in the oil sands, growing corn & wheat, Celine Dion, etc.... but that doesn't mean those things are not a part of the overall Canadian Identity.

Our collective of "Regional" identities directly make up our country's overall identity.... that's the point, and just because I don't have an interest in any of the above listed, doesn't mean someone else where I live has no interest in those things either... AKA: I don't tend to speak for everyone else when it's not ask of me.

In other words, the only thing that's a pile of steaming BS is your original post I responded to..... and with any luck, you'll now see why.

Bow before my omnipotence. :lol: just messing, lighten up, shiesh.

Would you have the faintest interest in sealing if not for the annual media frenzy surrounding it and politicians adopting it as some cause du jour?

We are talking an actual national identity though, combined regional identities do not necessarily = a national identity as all you are doing is pointing out the differences between us all, not something that we collectively are. I suppose that's the fallacy of the "Canadian Identity" though, we don't have one.

 

[mt_pockets1000]

If you're going to try and be witty, you could at least be accurate. Seeing as you're from Edmonton, you can't really comment on a city's drug problem.

How is it part of our national identity?

Sure I can. I could have just as easily used downtown Edmonton as a reference. We have many identifying points in Canada that makes this country what it is. Crackheads in Toronto (or Edmonton) and sealers from Newfoundland are just a couple of them.

 

[Tonington]

Funny, I thought the Cod industry collapsed because Spain crossed into our borders for years to continually clean our Cod out since they already over fished their own waters and didn't stop until we sent military vessels to patrol the area.

And after we kicked the foreign fleets out, they were replaced with domestic fishers. It's true that catches had begun to decline in the 70's, which is what prompted the Canadian and American legislative action to boot them out. The technology had progressed, it was easy to rig up a boat and go drag the Bank. So what did we do? We moved away from the traditional methods of fishing in Newfoundland, and made our own factory trawler fleets. Catches climbed again, folks in the industry thought things were great. Only they ignored the inshore fisherman. They guys who still went out in dories and skiffs, to jig or set lines for the cod. The cod were getting smaller, and less frequent.

The collapse was due to a ratchet effect. It's likely that if they had of capped the catch after booting out the foreign fleets, that the stocks could have rebounded. There still would have been sufficient numbers to rebuild the stocks. When we went full steam ahead, that sealed the deal.

DFO is notoriously attuned moreso to economic factors than to sound fisheries science and policy. If you read the Fisheries Act, they actually encourage civillians to report and prosecute crimes, as the politics for DFO make it...uncomfortable, shall we say to pressure those they regulate. It's laughable really, if it wasn't so damned frustrating and sad.

 

[lone wolf]

You know what was laughable? If a foreign-flagged trawler - usually Spanish - didn't get underway when so ordered, you should see how eager to please they were when buzzed by an Argus with an opened bomb bay....

 

[Tonington]

That would be a laugh worthy sight!

 

[Praxius]

Would you have the faintest interest in sealing if not for the annual media frenzy surrounding it and politicians adopting it as some cause du jour?

Yes I would. Half of my family comes from one form of the fishing industry or another and in just about all cases, their work involves the ocean. I grew up with a friend from Newfoundland who's family did attend the hunt for a few years.

I have interests in things that interest me.... the media does not dictate what I take interest in, or else I'd be probably some emo thug gangsta wanna-be dreaming of when I'll get a chance to marry Kate Gosselin, while trying to keep up with my Metrosexualism.

We are talking an actual national identity though, combined regional identities do not necessarily = a national identity as all you are doing is pointing out the differences between us all, not something that we collectively are. I suppose that's the fallacy of the "Canadian Identity" though, we don't have one.

Besides mounties and beavers, no... we have no real identity other then our collective regional identities.

Look at the US for an example.... the life styles of people in California, Florida, Washington, New York, New Orleans, etc... all make up their identity. Cowboys are not something that typically cover all of the US, nor is the glamor of Hollywood, or the busy way of life in New York.... yet those are things most people think of when thinking of the US (Besides political issues of course)

The UK is made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, each has their own well known identities and yet their combined identities make up what the UK is.

 

[Praxius]

You know what was laughable? If a foreign-flagged trawler - usually Spanish - didn't get underway when so ordered, you should see how eager to please they were when buzzed by an Argus with an opened bomb bay....

Indeed....

As I see it, during that time, it wasn't easy to keep accurate numbers on how many cod there were when you had foreign ships coming in and taking unknown amounts behind our backs and who didn't stop until the military had to get involved. There were practices done in our country that we're not the best things to be doing, but exactly how many other countries around that time used similar, or worse practices around the same period of time?

Let's not forget that it was Spain who wiped out their own cod and was the direct reason why they came here.... because we still had cod.

The EU sure as hell have no issue finger pointing and bad mouthing our own practices & the seal hunt and try to sound like they're the big protectors of the environment, yet seem to forget quickly their own hypocrisy of even worse actions.

Of course I suppose they're of some higher standard to not be criticized on the same level as us.

 

[mt_pockets1000]

Had to bring this thread back after I read this article....

Canada pins hope on seal trade with China | iPolitics