Funny that you should ask....I was just reading an article the other day on bear meat. It had to do with harvesting bear and matching the location of the bear to the taste of the meat.
So...if your bear is from the mountains, it has been dining on berries. If your bear is from the coast...its diet has been mostly fish. The author favors mountain bear, as coastal bear tends to have more of a pungent quality. He then went on to discuss the making of bear burgers with the meat (claiming that it is good eating).
So, there you have it. Bear is truly the other red meat....