Rich,
You could well be right about eating doggies. I've never tried one because, apart from being a bit of a pain to skin, everyone tells you they taste crap.
If we did start eating them as part of our staple diet maybe we could get the LSD population down and wouldn't be plagued by them quite so much 
KAM: Was typing too fast and meant fresh (sea) water...not freshwater as in out of the tap.
I dont mind doggies to eat although there are plenty of other fish I would rather have. Skinning is a royal pain, but trying filleting them as you would a round fish. You loose hardly any meat. Cook with the skin on and it simply falls away when cooked. It has a fairly string taste...but worth trying once.
When my children were younger and fishing trips were a real extravagance on my pay,we all regularly eat everything I caught.[thank God that isn't the case now,my family would starve to death.].we cooked conger ,in long fillets [less bones that way ] and then separated the flesh from the bones really thoroughly,useing the meat to make fish cakes,that were frozen and used as required.Dogfish were cut all around the body below the head,The head then nailed to the fence post and the skin pulled off,usually in one go,with a pair of pliers.flesh was often quite sweet,not to everyones taste. this was approaching subsistance living but we were brought up "waste not,want not"... 
.Those were also the"Bad old days" when the skipper dictated how many fish,you got to keep. He kept and sold the rest,and nothing went back....jack
in New Zealand dogfish are called lemon fish and they taste great along with gurnard, because they dont get many cod over there they use gurnard and dogfish alot i think it tastes lovely it is probably better to take home a few dogfish than a cod if caught too let the number of cod in the sea increase again.
on the side of skinning, when out fishing with matt on bliss 2 dean caught a double figure bullhuss and dad made skinning it look very easy
im starting to sound more and more like dad 
sam
ps rich i would rather put back a big fish than have it killed just to be weighed i even put back a ray in burnham that could have one me some money, i must be mad. 
I think this has been covered in a thread by Alun J........I'll eat anything, but I do like huss, doggies, and Ray. Years ago...in the 70's we were given tope spurdog and huss regularly, and they are nice to eat. With the Tope and spurdog under pressure in our waters, I havent eaten one in years........I havent even seen a spurdog since I was 14!!!!
Rich
I did some Dogfish in Batter for the family some years ago
They wondered why i didn't catch more of them as it tasted so good
Truth is i can't be bothered, but must try the filleting method
Hi Paul
Ref the dogfish, they are quite nice to eat occasionally.
Spike Spears of Bessie Vee showed me a good method that takes all the effort out of skinning them.
We will have to go out fishing as its far easier shown than explained, and with practice and a sharp knife takes about a minute or two per fish.
I have no reservations of taking a few of these fiosh as they seem to be fast growing and abundant.
Can someone turn the wind down a bit, I have been off all week and all the days I could fish its been windy 
Charlie