11,000 Cormorants Smoked in South Carolina!

[Robbo]

Smoked...with bird shot

The good old boys got tired of double crested cormorants eating all of their fish on a couple of popular fishing lakes in South Carolina a couple months ago and decided to do something about it. Here's a link to the story

http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/newsho ... -11k-birds

[Billgo4th]

I hope they don't eat too many!


http://www.lakeontariounited.com/fishing-hunting/topic/3906-cormorant-receipts/

[chiefeng]

I would so pony up to Hunt some Cormorants I wonder how they taste smoked

[Chef Patrick]

I will happily test & produce recipes for various ways to cook up some cormorants.



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[Robbo]

Not sure if I'd eat one, but I'd sure smoke my share. Nelson and I know a guy that used to kill hundreds of them in the Skagit Valley.

[Wild Bill]

No need to experiment to find a recipe to make these birds palatable as I have just the one. You start by putting them in a large pot and soaking them for 24 hours in saltwater. Then boil in saltwater for 20 minutes. Add butter and they magically taste like dungeness. For those that doubt this think of the old "Plank Carp" recipe and read between the lines. Bon Apetit!

[onwhiskeycreek]

We went into Craig last month to an Honoring Ceremony for our neighbor Stan Marsden, he was responsible for teaching carving to a lot of the carvers in SE today. Cormorants were used for decorations on the Masks and other regalia . Along with the cormorants were seal skin vests and boots and sea otter scarves and trimmings. Thanks to Wild Bill now I know where the feast of dungeness crab came from. Smoked seal was also served (it was lightly smoked and then cooked like a pot roast). Dinner was rounded out with fresh herring eggs, king salmon, halibut and venison. Wonder how this would have went over in Seattle?

Gary

[Robbo]

Toms truck burned up in the night the last time he talked poorly about seals

How did the smoked seal taste Gary? Seems like they might be a little rank tasting

[onwhiskeycreek]

Well it didn't taste anything like chicken. The meat is dark and a bit stringy like bear. I thought it had a bit of a fishy taste. The wife didn't get the fishy taste with her piece, but she had been eating the herring eggs on hemlock first. It was interesting trying the different things, but have to confess I mostly ate the fresh king and halibut.

Gary