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Oh dear.

Only slightly off topic, but with regard to the moose hunting that has just presently closed here, as it was for three days....are there authorised game butchers where it is possible to buy the meat of legally hunted animals. I ask as my OH was saying that he really liked the taste of Moose, and I have never tasted it, but wouldn't mind attempting something with a kilo or two. 3,556 moose were killed in NB (yes, I just read the paper) so where do they all go?

The people who hunt them take them to the local meat shop for processing, and then pay the butcher to cut their moose up into various things like joints / steak / ground beef / sausage / stew meat / ribs. A week or so later they go to the butcher to collect their 7 big boxes of various cuts , have to buy a new chest freezer for downstairs to fit it in, and then spend the rest of the winter complaining that the amount the new freezer cost negated getting the moose butchered and it would have been cheaper to buy store bought beef .................

sorry did I say that last sentence out loud...............

Hunting is not all about the trophy - it's about putting food in the freezer. All the butchers I know will take in game so in context of what you are trying to say is that they are all 'registered'!!!

So the short answer is most if not nearly all moose end up in the freezer of the bloke (or woman) that shot it!

I don't know this for sure and am only guessing, but unless the butcher is proccessing meat from moose reared specifically for slaughter, then he wouldn't be able to sell it because you can't be sure what a wild animal has eaten etc etc. There was a big ring arrested in your neck of the woods last year / this year???? for selling illegal moose meat. Natives don't need tags / licenses, so apparently they were shooting and then illegally selling them.

Just checked on all the game in our freezer (moose / elk / deer / beef) and it all says 'not for resale'.

I wholeheartedly agree with your hubby. Moose is one of the best meats out there IMO, richer flavour than beef, try looking at your local meat market - or even call a butcher to see if he knows of anywhere

Failing that, fly out to Alberta - i'll cook you some

Specialty meat shops like M&M sell Elk and Roe Deer meat that's been raised on game farms, but I haven't heard of domestic moose meat. Mandymoochops is right, buying or selling game taken by hunting is considered trafficking in wildlife. Your best bet, MillieF, may be waiting until the neighbour shoots a moose then look really wistfull.

I don't recall a ring, but there have been periodic cases of an individual being done for having it. In fact there was a big row as some bloke was locked up and I don't think he had that much.

Is Caribou the same? It's just that I had some in a restaurant in Quebec. Is the law on selling it different there or maybe it's allowed in a restaurant?

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I couldn't begin to tell you because I don't know. I would say that what Caretaker has stated would be the case, though will say again that if you are rearing the game for sale then it would be okay - (licenses / permits / health and safety permitting and all that jazz).

I've never tried Caribou - though from speaking to family members that have been on guided hunts they tend to leave the meat with their native guides.

It's possible someone is raising caribou domestically, or maybe some First Nations have a permit to harvest X number from whatever herd for sale, (as they do with some fish), though I doubt it as caribou numbers are tracked closely to gauge environmental impact of resource development. Likely someone has a reindeer farm because whatever the source the meat has to get inspected to go to a restaurant. I have a friend in Yellowknife who eats a lot of caribou (and musk-ox, and Arctic char), and he says it's very good.

I can't remember too much about the Caribou I ate. It was very nice but I think that was probably more a reflection on the restaurant based on other stuff eaten there. They could have made Tofu taste good.

Thanks Mandy, I may well take you up on that I was really interested in your comments about the hunting here, as I don't really know much about it, in Canada, in France is seemed to be a good excuse for the men to gather together with a couple of good bottles of wine. I did google Moose and Fredericton, and found all sorts of news about illegal meat hunting, evidently a lot seems to go on. I don't like the taste of deer much, I find it a bit rich. I used to get quite a lot of wild boar, which was delicious. The man who is fencing our garden is a hunter, and may well be worth cultivating!