Edible Sea Slugs near Vancouver, Canada

October 25, 2005
From: Calvin Patterson

My son is completing a project on the Kwakiutl Indians of the Pacific Northwest from the 1800's.

We have learned that the sea slugs were common in the Kwakiutl diet. Can you help me know the specific types of sea slugs in this area?

Thanks
Calvin Patterson

calvin.patterson@patmedia.net

Calvin Patterson, 2005 (Oct 25) Edible Sea Slugs near Vancouver, Canada. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/15103

Dear Calvin,
For a list of opisthobranchs from that part of the world try searches for canada and washington on the Forum and you will get a list of opisthobranchs we have on the Forum from the NE Pacific. You could also look at Dave Behrens' book Pacific Coast Nudibranchs.

If you go to the Sea Slug Recipes Fact Sheet  and look at the July 1998 correspondence you will see a link to a webpage where the cooking mehtods of the Kwakiutl Indians is described. The general opinion was that they were probably eating a Sea Cucumber rather than a true sea slug. The only sea slug I know that is reported to have been eaten by Nth Pacific peoples is Tochuina tetraqueta, which is reported to have been eaten in the Kuril Islands but I can't find a reference. 
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman

Rudman, W.B., 2005 (Oct 25). Comment on Edible Sea Slugs near Vancouver, Canada by Calvin Patterson. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/15103

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