Unwanted salmon

[Dragginbait]

I was getting too much frozen fish scraps in the freezer and didn't want to keep throwing some out each garbage day, so we put an ad on Used Victoria for free crab bait and got a lot of interest, so I'll be doing that again for sure. I beats having to send it out to Hartland and keeps your garbage man happy not having to deal with the smell.

 

[Birdsnest]

What do you mean by "scraps"?

 

[GDW]

I think he means heads and frames. You could also just toss them in the water at the cleaning table and save yourself some trouble. I fillet my fish right at the dock why gut them and take them home only to make a new mess at home? You do need to keep a little extra so the fish can be measured/identified by species and hatch or wild but I usually forget and just take the meat home.

 

[Rockfish]

I was getting too much frozen fish scraps in the freezer and didn't want to keep throwing some out each garbage day, so we put an ad on Used Victoria for free crab bait and got a lot of interest, so I'll be doing that again for sure. I beats having to send it out to Hartland and keeps your garbage man happy not having to deal with the smell.

Buried in the garden, they add a lot of nutrients to the soil.

 

[scott craven]

Until the neighbors dog digs it up and drags it all over the yard

 

[Dragginbait]

I see alot of people filleting at the cleaning table but that makes it a little hard to prove wild or hatchery, so instead of a fine, I bring home gutted fish.

 

[GDW]

Well you never need to prove its a wild. If its a hatch I make my cut so the removed adipose fin is on one of the fillets. Then I have a 3 inch scrap at home instead of the whole fish.

At least your smart enough to freeze your fish scraps one time I tossed it right in the can on a non garbage week... Woops! had a little orange F U note from the garbage man that time and probably a few similar thoughts from the neibours too! Works great if you want to start a maggot farm though.

 

[Deewar25]

Well you never need to prove its a wild. If its a hatch I make my cut so the removed adipose fin is on one of the fillets. Then I have a 3 inch scrap at home instead of the whole fish.

At least your smart enough to freeze your fish scraps one time I tossed it right in the can on a non garbage week... Woops! had a little orange F U note from the garbage man that time and probably a few similar thoughts from the neibours too! Works great if you want to start a maggot farm though.

I was impressed the garbage man took mine yesterday - had about 60lbs of guts from my north island trip (frozen at least but probably added a bunch of weight) - the bin weighed a ton...lol

 

[trendsetter]

For me, hatchery heads go in the salmon head recovery boxes whenever possible. Big wild heads get saved for crab bait, small heads for hali bait. If you have dogs you can pressure cook the carcass for 200 minutes and the bones soften and become a nice calcium supplement in their food.

 

[Englishman]

I take mine carcases back to the ocean....

Right on High Five! That is exactly what we do. All fish scraps from cleaning (when we don't do it at the dock) goes into a plastic bag and is then frozen. It then get dumped in the ocean next trip out. There really is no excuse or reason for any fish products to end up in the "garbage". This way the nutrients go back in the ocean and nothing is wasted.
Besides, we keep a very happy garbage man!!

 

[Dave S]

Back to the ocean for all guts and carcass if I don't deal with it at the ramp. It's the right thing to do. Save some for crab/prawn, hali bait.

 

[Sculpin]

Good idea in not letting it go into the land fill.