3. Panfish
Trout and certain panfish find their way on the bottom of this list for the same reasons as squirrels. For example, a wild trout only provides 143 calories per fillet. Double that and you are at 286 calories per fish. Again, the amount of panfish or trout you’d have to catch in a day would be substantial if you were to try and live solely on their sustenance. Based on a 4,000-calorie diet, that would equate to around 14 fish per day to break even for one person. However, there would be an advantage of panfish over squirrels and rabbit. That advantage is that fishing is passive. In other words, you could cast a few lines each day and come back later to check your catch, with very little effort involved. Fishing doesn’t require nearly as many calories as hunting does; therefore, the calories of your panfish would go further and you may not burn 4,000 calories per day.
When you are starving, any meat is a good meat. And when you are on a diet, a lean meat is a prized possession. However, when you are faced with life and death?
How often have we seen a movie or TV series that showed a wilderness man in the 1800s bringing home a few well-caught rabbits or squirrels, declaring: “Meat is here!” and telling his family they would not starve. Turns out, he might have done better taking them to a turn of the century version of McDonalds (c)!
For more on what animals to avoid eating out in the wild, check out Off The Grid News.
This page is such annoying bullshit anymore
Wonder what native Americans and early settlers ate
East coast fish
West coast fish for that matter
Might want to rethink that headline
Bogus, squirrel, rabbits, deer, bass, crappie…..you can live off all of it the rest of your life….and live a long life. Who writes this garbage?
what about the produce and other food stuff from Mexico and other off shore places that is contaminated !!!!!!!
Dumbest$#%&!@*I’ve ever heard!!!0
you people are so stupid you are pitiful im 74 tears old and i grew up eating rabbits-squirrels – and all kind of fish why dont you grow up
You took the words right out of my mouth.
This is literally an article about nothing!
In the 70s a guy lives off of field mice to prove that wolves were living on them.
I’m sixty two and grew up eating these blue gill and sun fish and still eat them ,along with every other species and will continue eating them the only harm IV bad is fish farts!
What the author fails to clarify is that the lack of enough fat in these animals is the culprit along with protein toxicity.