I kind of feel that this is a double sided sword issue regarding the disposal of fish carcasses. I am not a big fan of seeing all the fish carcasses around the boat ramp when we put in/pull out, but I look at it in this sense. Due to having to take the fish home whole, you are now left with the carcass. If you are like me and have trash pickup once a week, a dead fish in a trash barrel cooking for a week tends to anger the neighbors as well as attract all types of critters. The choices are now limited to illigally dumping it in a trash barrel such as say a carwash, or taking it down to the water and continuing the cycle of life by feeding it to the crabs. Usaully, especially on the south shore of mass., the only access to the water is right at the boat ramps. So that is where they get tossed. They usually disappear with the tide. The crabs and birds eat the carcass. Now, if people brought them down and heaved them into the trash barrel at the local ramp, people would be complaininng not only of the smell, but the flies and the mess created by birds tearing the trash apart to get it. Plus I rarely see a barrel at the ramps that aren't overflowing. As for undersized looking fish, I'm not sure, but if someone is unlawfully taking them and then having the lack of intelligince to throw the smoking gun out of sight, that is something totally different.
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