Mmmmm.... Lox.
Posted on 10/31/2016 7:15:54 AM PDT by C19fan
A giant extinct salmon used a mouthful of spiked teeth to fight rivals more than five million years ago. The coastal waters of the Pacific were home to the bizarre species with huge teeth, a new study shows. The spike-toothed salmon reached sizes of three to nine feet in length (0.91 to 2.7m) - much larger than the typical salmon found in the Pacific today.
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Mmmmm.... Lox.
Get it into the smoker! Mmmmmmmm
Probably hunted seals, lol!
Oh, man! I’ll need a larger smoker.
I'll bring the bagels and cream cheese!
Exactly how I like it, with capers! I’m coming over!
Friends of ours in Mexico used our small sailboat and our tackle to haul in a five foot barracuda. She (she had roe which our friend scooped out and ate) didn’t try to swallow the lure but struck at it and was hooked through the gill. They hauled it up into the boat which was only 11 feet long and had the two full sized men in it plus having to deal with sail etc. We tried to repeat the event multiple times but failed because the fish would simply bite through the leader. The tackle was a guitar string leader and a piece of white plastic. I am not making this up. We were camping on a beach in Yucatan in the early 70s. No tourists then.
Here, too. Like braided cable. And I’ll have to get a smoking plank from the lumber yard for that bruiser.
Me too. Put on another pot of coffee. ;o)
I developed a theory (actually less than a theory, more than a random thought) that the reason most animals are so much smaller physically now than in the past has to do with the quantity of biomass (ie. carbon) available and distributed around the planet. It is less now than it was. How do we know this? Coal, peat, oil all lock huge quantities away from use by life.
By digging all that stuff up and putting it back in the biosphere (by burning it) we are simply recycling the carbon to where it belongs.
If we invented a “clean” inexhaustible power source tomorrow, the environmentally responsible thing to do would be to dig up all that coal, etc. and burn it anyway. Leave it to the enviros to ALWAYS take the side of sterility and death.
Maybe even grizzlies!
I’m firing up my lawnmower right now. I’ll let it run all day.
It is a good thing you did not boat and eat it. Ciguatera. Only eat small ‘cuda. They taste like trout.
Ah, Mexico in the 70’s. San Blas was where I wanted to be buried when I died. But since then things have changed.
Picture the bear waiting patiently at the falls for the salmon to jump into it’s mouth, when suddenly the salmon jumps out and grabs the bear!
I could go for that caper...
That’s some dangerous sushi.
I’m going to need extra wasabi and a bucket of soy sauce.
Oh we gobbled it down. I totally understand the risks and unlike our friend Steve, we did not eat any of it raw but we ate it. We were living off the land down there and had not had that much protein in a long time. It was very yummy and here I am 40 plus years later alive and well.
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