Obscure State Rule Eliminates Fish Cleaning Stations – Come On Now
Take a crowbar to your fish cleaning station and rip it off your dock! They’ll soon be illegal unless you have a permit.
You heard right!
Homeowners, public fishing piers, marinas, fish houses and fish camps will all be criminals if the State of Florida follows through with pending rules requiring permits for fish cleaning stations, or fillet tables as they’re also known.
Something stinks in Tallahassee.
To avoid conflicts with the new law, Manatee County has removed cleaning tables from public boat ramps. Our (your) tax dollars paid for their removal.
Are you serious?
The state has nothing better to do than create laws that make these old timey dock side conveniences illegal? Fillet tables have been around since, well, probably shortly after the Calusa Indians wanted a better way to clean their catch. And now they’re illegal?
Hey Governor Crist, you’re an avid fisherman. Does Carole really want you cleaning sheep head in the kitchen?
Look, fish carcasses feed birds and enrich the ecosystem. They’re not a problem. Never have been.
Call, write and email your representatives. Tell them to repeal this ridiculous law and stop wasting time and money. Heck, they could be balancing the budget, when they’re not out fishing.
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This is going overboard, pun intended!! The crabs need to eat and this completes the food chain. What will the bottom dwellers do? We will still be taking the fish from the water, but they will not receive a share of the nutrition. This is wrong.
sounds like our government is out of touch with what goes on outisde of the walls of their office I recommend offering them a day of fishing on the water and then lets see how they feel about their decisions at the end of the day..
I think it is a silly law! Fillet tables do not harm anything or anyone. If anything it allows for people to fillet legal caught fish. I think everyone needs to read this article!
Doesn’t sound very sanitary to leave the fish guts just laying on the docks. How could that be better?
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