Prawning

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This post contains images and material that may not be suitable for the faint hearted. If you have something against humans catching, preparing, cooking and eating their food like what has been done for thousands and thousands of years naturally, do not read further!
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Two weeks ago my friend suggested we go prawning. "Prawning?", I asked, "It sounds so boring!". Nevertheless. I decided to go with them for the age old human practice of "hunting". Just that this was in a highly controlled environment. After dinner we arrived at the prawning place. It costs $30 to rent a fishing rod for 3 hours. Rather expensive it seems.

The controlled prawning environment -- black freshwater pools with unknown number of prawns within. They add new prawns periodically.


The bait -- chopped chicken heart


A catch!!!


You have to unhook the hook from the prawn's mouth. Sometimes we have to remove the pincers of the prawn in case we get clamped.


Hohoho, the catch


Washing the prawn


Skewering the prawn (un)fortunately they are still alive and kicking


Whole bunch of skewered prawns. Most of them are female with roe.


Grilled with lots of salt. They don't have much taste.

All in all, we caught 18 prawns in 3 hours using 3 rods. That cost us a whopping $90! I guess prawning is not something one would do frequently. Furthermore, I guess we did not wash them too cleanly at the cost of my stomach...