Hunting on PEI

I was at P.E.I a few years back and had a blast. I met one of the local guys and all I can remember him saying is he didn’t want any deer on the island. I found that strange but what ever floats your boat. Also went Mackerel fishing and that was a heck of a day and I didn’t even have a chance to taste the Mackerel...
 
i think the deer that were introduced to the island swam back across to the main land(NB) where they brought them from.maybe if they had brought a herd from alberta they might have stayed.
 
lone-wolf said:
I'm surprised how many people like mackerel. They're so fishy tasting.
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Wow, a fish that tastes fishy, imagine that!

Seriously I thinkyou are looking for teh word "oily" and I have found teh only way to eat macks is to BBQ them straight on the grill, watch out for flames though. I can not stand them fried or boiled or steamed.
 
Ganderite said:
PEI & Deer. Look at the telephone poles. Now imagine snow drifts near the top.

Now imagine the deer.... not.

Mackeral fishing in PEI. Bringsback great memories. What a hoot! and they BBQ great!
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Um, we get nothing in snowfall compared to NB and Quebec, last time I checked the deer are doing ok over there, some bad winters, some good winters.
 
lone-wolf said:
Caribou? Sure he isn't confusing PEI with NFLD?
Everything I've read said bear, deer, and wolves were here. Never heard caribou.

What we need here is turkeys.
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Yes there were caribou here, but they pre-date European colonization. Moose habitat was destroyed shortly after colonization and the last bear was killed in 1951 I think.
 
bill c68 said:
Yes there were caribou here, but they pre-date European colonization. Moose habitat was destroyed shortly after colonization and the last bear was killed in 1951 I think.
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Any idea if they were year round residents or migrated off island?
 
lone-wolf said:
Any idea if they were year round residents or migrated off island?
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They flew south every winter.... don't ya know PEI was the north pole at one time...

Seriously though, I know little about them except skeletal remains have been found at native campsites etc. And they are discussed in the Miq Ma history.

They were in Northern NB until about the early 1900s. There are black and white photos of them, still a few in the Gaspe region of Quebec but are heavily protected.
 
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