B.C. dogfish fishery certified as sustainable

"QBC" said
People are gonna eat those things?????......NASTY!!!!


We were always pissed off when we ran into a group of those little sharks, always meant the Salmon fishing was no good in the area and we had to move on. They were considered "Garbage Fish" by coast fishermen forever.

Spiny dogfish are fished for food in Europe, the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Chile. The meat is primarily consumed in England, France, the Benelux countries and Germany. The fins and tails are processed into fin needles and are used in less expensive versions of shark fin soup in Chinese cuisine. In England this and other dogfish are sold in fish and chip shops as "rock salmon" or "huss", in France it is sold as "small salmon" (saumonette) and in Belgium and Germany it is sold as "sea eel" (zeepaling and Seeaal, respectively). It is also used as fertilizer, liver oil, and pet food, and, because of its availability, cartilaginous skull, and manageable size, as a popular vertebrate dissection specimen, in both high schools and universities.