Fish Cleaning and disposal

[Kodiak1]

I usually clean my fish at home, but one thing to just think about: lakes like Redfish used to be healthy for fish because the 10,000 rotting carcasses littering the bottom of the lake after spawning insured that there would be sufficient zooplankton for the next generation to survive on. Now they are having to dump detergents (phosphates) in the water to replicate the process. In the state of Washington they are taking carcasses from hatcheries and placing them in spawning streams, because they have learned that this is an essential step in a successful spawning cycle. Mike
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