Wow thanks for the info. I was just always told that you can't eat them but never saw why until I found out from you that we can eat them. Ok any way I was wondering can you eat dog fish? I always catch them but am not sure if their safe to eat. I read in a book that Dog fish {Or bowfish,same thing} eat mainly live prey and are almost always a 100% predator but I have also heard different and that they are scavengers and you can't eat them. I have seen people catch many nearly three feet in pewaukie lake and they caught them on live fish but I catch them on chicken livers and hearts. I think they Probably jsut eat any thing but they do have teeth and are aggressive predators that tend to get in fights with other fish because their so mean. So can you eat these fish? And what do you think a dog fish eats more live prey or dead? Also to add to the strories of Cat Fish with tail fins five feet long I would say thsoe stories have to be false. If thsoe stories are true then thsoe Cat's are about 1,000 pounds and weigh much more then 300 pounds judging from the Cat Fishes total length. I can't see a 1,000 pound Flat Head cat and I have to doubt many of these Cat fish stories. I say Flat head Cat's MIGHT at the most get up to about 8 feet long or mabey a little longer but there are no Cat's with tail fins 5 feet long.
In some places people will even buy gar for food.A lot of Cajuns use gar.If you don't like it the first time you try it,use a different recipe.
Dogfish is just one kind of shark to me but people call fish by different names in different parts of the Country.Bowfish isn't familiar to me at all.
Is dogfish or bowfish maybe what I would call a bowfin?
If so,they're OK to eat but not really all that good,I don't think.