Fish carcass disposal ideas

With the success of softbait jetskifishing i have a problem: how to dispose of all the fish carcasses before they stink out the neighbourhood in the warm summer weather. can anyone suggest convenient, legal, eco friendly ways to dispose of the evidence?

i do all the refrigeration for oceanz sea foods, they have one at albany, silverdale, northcote, city, and i think one in howick, when i catch my fish i stop off on way home and they cut it up for a small fee, if you go to albany store ask for loraine and say mark from thermal solutions sent ya and she will sort you out, then you walk away with all your fish cut up and they get rid off the rest its brill.

Regards Mark Aka= Memfis

What I do is simply wrap in newspaper then put in black rubbish bag and toss in the freezer. Then on rubbish day just biff it out. No smell.

yep i stick mine in a plastic bag inside a bucket and chuck the whole thing in the chest freezer, then i put the bag in the rubbish bag on rubbish day or throw it in my bin next time i head out and ditch it overboard (minus the plastic bag of course)

Yep mine is straight into the freezer or the fridge depedant upon space and time till rubiish day. Not a single smell. If you don't have a second fridge......then you need one for beer as well remember!!!

I have started gutting fish at sea , thats most of the smell gone , then fillet when i get home , carcass i wrap in newspaper and then plastic bag and straight into freezer for rubbish day , my mum gets the fish heads , not alot of waste and no smell .

HOTBODZ wrote:I have started gutting fish at sea , thats most of the smell gone , then fillet when i get home , carcass i wrap in newspaper and then plastic bag and straight into freezer for rubbish day , my mum gets the fish heads , not alot of waste and no smell .

With your excellent recent sucess when do you find time to gut them at sea? You are always busy hauling in fish!

I have for a long time gutted and gilled at sea, the sooner you get the gills out the fresher the flesh is, and of course on ice.

Another tip for ice, where possible a salt slurry is ideal however for those quick trips when you want to quickly throw some ice in the bin I always have some in the freezer.

All empty milk and soft drink bottles are filled with water and thrown in the chest freezer, when i want ice I break them against the garage floor until the bottles split, this breaks the solid ice inside into good sized chunks, i then peel off the split bottle and empty the ice into a plastic bag for my next trip out.

I dig a hole in the garden about 3 feet deep and in she goes, makes the tomatoes really grow hard.