Some people around here eat them..when I was a kid my Dad brought one home to try.He filled the bathtub and let it swim around in there all night and cleaned it the next day.I remember seeing it in the bathtub but don't remember how it tasted...but Dad said it was good and he was a picky fish eater, but he did say something about the perparation but I don't remember. He's gone now or would ask him. The swamps around here are loaded with them. They are one of the hardest fighting fish that swim. Gar,Paddlefish,Grinnel or bowfin,which ever name....haven't changed in a million years or so. I guess it was a design God figured didn't need much improvement.