Most folks don't realize how much they are paying when their bucket contains a bunch of small perch when they go to the cleaners. Cost is by the pound and all those little fish cost more to clean than having just a few bigger fish as the waste on each fish is over 60%. I clean my own, glad we have limits...my perch need to be well over 8" to make the effort worthwhile. If more folks cleaned their own fish, they would be more picky about size...