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!

Lucky, must a been catfish in the dumpster........ 🙊🙉🙈 but I'll just take his word for it. 😛

ROFLMAO!!!!

holly107
a few campgrounds have freezers put on the grounds i heard at one time a guy not sure who comes and empty them for a mink farm business I think I was told he supplied the freezer. but I know its a great idea.

Presque Isle Passage RV park near Erie has one of those freezers. They take the remains to the mink farm to feed minks.
 
 

  


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. 

I'm having a hard time trying to Kwel my laughter!

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

Years ago I stayed on Georgian Bay in Canada months at a time I lived with a commercial fishing family. We dumped the guts either on a small island for the sea gulls, or up  an inlet that was about 8' deep with gravel bottom and had a fair amount of currant. Well after several years of the scraps in that channel it was swarming with Smallmouth bass. The crawfish must have exploded in there and hence the Bass. When you hooked a Smally they were barfing Crayfish. Well a local fishing camp found our spot and for a few years there were two three boats anchored in there all day having a ball. We stopped dumping the fish parts and with the pressure on the fish it isn't worth fishing anymore. You would not be leave how good the fishing was when we had it to ourselves.
   Returning the fish to the resource has its advantages. Just not in places that nature has trouble taking advantage of the bounty. Of course present laws do not allow such stewardship. I guess the carp at Pymy are the exception.

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!

treesparrow
Years ago I stayed on Georgian Bay in Canada months at a time I lived with a commercial fishing family. We dumped the guts either on a small island for the sea gulls, or up  an inlet that was about 8' deep with gravel bottom and had a fair amount of currant. Well after several years of the scraps in that channel it was swarming with Smallmouth bass. The crawfish must have exploded in there and hence the Bass. When you hooked a Smally they were barfing Crayfish. Well a local fishing camp found our spot and for a few years there were two three boats anchored in there all day having a ball. We stopped dumping the fish parts and with the pressure on the fish it isn't worth fishing anymore. You would not be leave how good the fishing was when we had it to ourselves.
   Returning the fish to the resource has its advantages. Just not in places that nature has trouble taking advantage of the bounty. Of course present laws do not allow such stewardship. I guess the carp at Pymy are the exception.

Yep, most of Canada seems to work that way. When I was up in Vermillion Bay on a fly-in, we tossed guts onto a rock on the lake and the eagles had them demolished in seconds. Even if we tossed some in the lake, the local wildlife took care of them quickly. However, we were in very sparsely populated areas. 
 
I didn't see a problem on Ontario with heading out to 500 or even 600 foot of water and dumping them. I am sure that was the practice for a lot of years. The volume of fishermen has changed as these great lakes develop into world-class fisheries. The problem is when you give people an inch, they take a mile. The state has to look at it as a black and white law, if you discard something in the lake, it is littering. Common sense laws just don't work anymore in my opinion.
 
Lake Erie is a different beast. With the number of guys out catching fish, the volume of guts and carcasses would be way overwhelming. I am not sure the lake needs additional nutrients at this point? If you are up visiting with a boat and rent a slip, most all the marinas have fish cleaning station where you can fillet and dispose. If you need a motel, The Green Roof Inn offers a fish cleaning station.
 
Fact is, they removed the dumpster at Walnut, not because of the smell or cost, it is because people are slobs and do not respect the privileges the state is trying to offer. We complain when we can't have "something", but we ruin it once we get it.
 
My .02