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?

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