Cleaning Fish

[wakina]

Was checked by an ODNR officer twice this year while cleaning fish at the cleaning station at Paradise Acres on Beef Creek which runs into the 2-saint river. Nothing was said but he only asked a couple of questions and counted my fish cleaned and uncleaned and I was not sighted for any violations. So there must be more to the story than meets the eye.

[berserker]

my buddy has a dock on Ram island of Grand River. It is in the fishing regulations and it states that no cleaning of fish or processing fish is allowed on or near a body of water. It seems that the division of wildlife is now enforcing that rule on the Grand River and on Chagrin River. He said that the division of wildlife has gone to many, many boaters in those areas and made it very clear that if they are caught cleaning fish in unapproved cleaning stations, they will be cited. If they have a cleaning station, it has to be totally self contained and none of the waste or water can flow into the river/lake. They cannot even clean fish blood off knives in the lake water. He believes that is stems from the yacht owners or pleasure boaters complaining they dont want to see fish being cleaned. Someone must have complained, now the division of wildlife has chosen to enforce the law in those areas, for now. So if you dock n fish in those areas, you might want to watch out for "the man."