We have a rule in our contract at Spicers which prohibits us from cleaning fish and dumping carcasses overboard. Never the less, many people do it, and if you catch fluke you're supposed to retain the carcass even if you clean the fish at sea to prove the length. If I clean fish at the dock I usually put the racks and skins in a tote and dump them overboard in one shot so seagulls aren't flying around picking them up. So one of my dock neighbors (a blowboater) complained about me cleaning fish over the weekend. I spoke with Bill Spicer about it and he says he has no problem with me doing it but there's a state mandate that prohibits it. I called the marine fisheries dept yesterday and whoever I spoke with said he'd never heard of this mandate. Just trying to make sure I have the facts straight on this. Is anyone aware of a state or federal regulation prohibiting cleaning fish and disposing of the racks at a marina?

Run a few select racks up that blowboater's mast on his lines.

It's marina rules as far as I know. My marina doesn't allow fish cleaning remnants in the water either....gotta put in double bagged trash bags and throw in dumpster. Sometimes lobsterman/periwinklers put S closed top poly drum near the fillet station for carcass donations for their bait. Man does that barrel get ripe!

My marina just doesn't want the seagulls to fly racks and skins up onto other marina boaters' boats.....plus there is a town swimming beach just 100yds or so away from our fillet station.

Won't be able to please everyone. Seems now a days there is always someone who is going to be offended by something. Somehow we stopped being born with common sense it appears.

Clammy hit the nail on the head, you're not dealing with rational individuals.

Glad the marina solved the issue.

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Won't be able to please everyone. Seems now a days there is always someone who is going to be offended by something. Somehow we stopped being born with common sense it appears. [/quote]

Man, you sure got that right