bleed the fish

[STEVE IN MASS]

Actually, this is from the Mass Division of Marine Fisheries Abstract for 2003:

"Striped bass msut be transported with head body and tail intact -multialtion in such a way as to interfere with adequate and proper measurement is not permitted. The discard of dead, legal striped bass, i.e. high grading, is prohibited."

So, that is a bit vague, as in one sense it says the "head, body and tail" must be intact, but in another sense, it says if it is not multilated to "interfere with proper and adequate measurement" it is okay. I would thing an intact fram with the fillets removed would not interfere with proper measurement.

There was no mention of other fish other than bass pertaining to this subject.

Don't have time right now to wade thru the RI DEM website to find their rules............