Fish Carcass Disposal

Came to visit last weekend to work on camp and fished for walleye on Sunday. While there I noticed that you are no longer allowed to throw fish cleaning trash in the dumpster at Walnut.

Anyone know another place public is allowed to dump guts and carcass?

BTW, 3 limits in 4 hours. Water and weather was as perfect as anyone could ask for.

(Please forgive me for posting this in 2 sections. The other should be deleted)

Lucky,
Years back when we went to NY there were official "mulch" locations that would accept the trash.  Not sure if they still exist.
 
In Erie PA it was very convenient to have dumpster for public use.  Now taking trash home is extra work...that's all.
 
In a couple weeks we will be dong a bigger trip, 2 boats and probably 8 fishermen for 3 days.  Potential for a lot as trash to haul home. :)

350Z&Steelheads
Lucky
In a couple weeks we will be dong a bigger trip, 2 boats and probably 8 fishermen for 3 days.  Potential for a lot as trash to haul home. :)

Buy a bigger cooler!

I fully believe in taking your trash home with you if there is no safe place to place it . but in order to difuse landowner hassles why cant the fish commission have a dumpster at walnut ?

"Do you want to live down wind of that dumpster when it gets emptied once a week and it is over 90°?"
 
lol......that is funny. The answer is NO. 
 
I had the privilege of staying at Four C's Marina in Point Breeze in a small cabin next to a dumpster. I know first hand how bad it smells in July! People were not supposed to dump remains in the dumpster, but I watched dozens of trucks drive up and toss them in. The dumpster sat right on the road. We complained, and a lovely woman named Louis called to get the dumpster dumped, and they moved it further into the facility. They ended up locking their dumpster.  
 
Fact is, no one wants to deal with your fish remains. Hell, they can't keep the grass mowed in the parks, let alone cater to other peoples trash. Take in, take out. The price of your fishing license doesn't fund the state to be on garbage duty.   
 
I remember when everyone on Lake Ontario either ground the fish remains at the "public grinder", or drove the remains back in the lake to dump. We used to fish all day, come back to the cabin and fillet them, then load back in the boat and drive to 500 FOW and throw them out. Even the charter captains did this (that is where I learned to do it). There is a reason they finally made it illegal. I would not go into the grinders because people are slobs. No one hosed down the grinder afterward, and most left trash. The grinder houses smelled like a bus full of hookers. 
 
I fillet, put the guts in a garbage bag, and toss it in the deep-freezer until trash day. Trash day comes, I put it in the can. For one, the garbage man doe not have to smell it, I don't have to smell it, my garbage cans don't smell like it. My wife didn't like it at first, but once she realized how clean was, she prefers I do it that way. 
 
I tried the fertilizer route....the cats loved it, and we still had to smell it.  

bassackwards
"Do you want to live down wind of that dumpster when it gets emptied once a week and it is over 90°?"
 
lol......that is funny. The answer is NO. 
 
I had the privilege of staying at Four C's Marina in Point Breeze in a small cabin next to a dumpster. I know first hand how bad it smells in July! People were not supposed to dump remains in the dumpster, but I watched dozens of trucks drive up and toss them in. The dumpster sat right on the road. We complained, and a lovely woman named Louis called to get the dumpster dumped, and they moved it further into the facility. They ended up locking their dumpster.  
 
Fact is, no one wants to deal with your fish remains. Hell, they can't keep the grass mowed in the parks, let alone cater to other peoples trash. Take in, take out. The price of your fishing license doesn't fund the state to be on garbage duty.   
 
I remember when everyone on Lake Ontario either ground the fish remains at the "public grinder", or drove the remains back in the lake to dump. We used to fish all day, come back to the cabin and fillet them, then load back in the boat and drive to 500 FOW and throw them out. Even the charter captains did this (that is where I learned to do it). There is a reason they finally made it illegal. I would not go into the grinders because people are slobs. No one hosed down the grinder afterward, and most left trash. The grinder houses smelled like a bus full of hookers. 
 
I fillet, put the guts in a garbage bag, and toss it in the deep-freezer until trash day. Trash day comes, I put it in the can. For one, the garbage man doe not have to smell it, I don't have to smell it, my garbage cans don't smell like it. My wife didn't like it at first, but once she realized how clean was, she prefers I do it that way. 
 
I tried the fertilizer route....the cats loved it, and we still had to smell it.  

Great comments!  But , just asking, how do you know what "a bus full of hookers" smells Like!

ROFLMAO!!!!

  


Great comments!  But , just asking, how do you know what "a bus full of hookers" smells Like!




I, unfortunately, went on a bus party to Woodstock 99.  I learned a lot during the trip. For one, they make a shampoo that kills all kinds of critters one may encounter on a "party bus". I still have a half bottle left.....I should probably schedule another trip. No reason to waste it. 

SHAMPOO........ what the hell happen to kerosene🤔??? ooops telling my age here.😬

BeenThereDoneThat.
SHAMPOO........ what the hell happen to kerosene🤔??? ooops telling my age here.😬

Wow, kerosene. That may give your age away, but young or old......we have learned the same lessons!

I think it is "a few ruin it for everyone." 

And I forgot my spoon!  Old age strikes all of us eventually!
 
In NYS you have to be 100 feet away from shore.  So you could bury the guts 100 feet back in the woods on your property or public land (unless there is another ordinance of which I am unaware, but no, that could never happen in the Emperor's Empire State!) or more than 100 feet off shore.
 
We always clean brook trout immediately, put them in a plastic bag, and add them to the soft sided cooler we use for adult beverages and worm preservation when we pond fish in the Adirondacks.  We got to our favorite pond the first week this year, and as I was worried about the rangers giving us a hard time, I kept the guts in a separate bag for later disposal.  The resident snapping turtle showed up a little while after I cleaned the first fish, and then sat about 5 feet offshore giving us the evil eye because he wasn't finding anything to eat!  When we went back the following week, I threw the guts in the pond for the turtle, who showed up that day before we even put the boats in the pond.  My friend asked me what I would tell the Rangers.  I replied " The law says 'except for immediate consumption', so I'll tell them I ate the guts right away to be incompliance with the law."  He threw the insides from a fish a few feet offshore, and said the snapper was chawing them down before he got done rinsing out the cavity.
I am sure that enforcement of this regulation in remote areas with low pressure is overkill in the law, but I've seen (with my nose) really disgusting scenes along the Great Lakes and in the Finger Lakes before the regulation was enacted. 

This is why all fishing should be done in SALTWATER.  Endless critters to deal with those carcasses no matter where you are.  And the critters you feed are useful and most of the time tasty in their own right.  
 
Dead fish + dumpsters = bad times.  

Lucky13
Actually, it is not legal to use fish or parts of fish for bait in most  Adirondack Ponds.  "Use of fish dead or alive" is how they phrase it.
 

Alllllllll nuts.😞

BeenThereDoneThat.

Lucky13
Actually, it is not legal to use fish or parts of fish for bait in most  Adirondack Ponds.  "Use of fish dead or alive" is how they phrase it.
 

Alllllllll nuts.😞

I think you can use nuts as long as they don't come from a fish!