Ontario Snapping Turtule Hunt indefinate Ban

[machman]

So what do they taste like? Anything you can compare it to?

 

[Ebola]

So what do they taste like? Anything you can compare it to?

Ive has snapping turtle soup before. I just don't remember what it tasted like as I was a kid. I dont recall spitting it out though.

 

[mildot]

While I don't consider myself a "conservationist" my gut tells me that if we aggressively consume everything on this planet we may be extinct sooner than later.

 

[Fordtrucks]

They are natures clean up in the ponds/swamps we need them

 

[canadian hunter312]

I've ate a few snapping turtles, along with hundreds of catfish, and this idea that both species need to be kept in clean water for a week to "flush the swampy mud taste" is hilarious. As with most other critters, a quick kill followed by removing the blood and guts and cooling the animal as quickly as possible are key to quality table fare. They're not some crazy beastly animal like some will have you believe and you can casually walk up to them and grab them by the shell with minimal risk.

It doesn't effect me that the harvest was banned, but I do wonder if this is was science or emotion based.

 

[9.3mauser]

Never understood this "hunt".....

Somebody out there feels exactly the same way about your deer hunt.

 

[tracker]

They make good soup. This turtle decided to built a nest on the side of a gravel road next to a bridge. Bottom picture is the egg and after she left I levelled gravel, 2nd picture.