anybody else bothered by this? for the first time today i actually saw somebody doing this. an old guy threw a 12~14" sacramento pikeminnow onto the beach behind him and was leaving it there flopping in the sand, i threw it back in and the guy got mad at me and told me to not touch his fish, i told him that it wasn't on a stringer or in a basket so it wasn't his fish and to suck it up. he told me to bleed somewhere else. i told him to either sever their spine or throw them back. is it legal to just throw the fish onto the beach?
throwing fish on beach
- Thread starter Danyal
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i'd be really annoyed by that too, although it has never happened to me. I don't know if its illegal...
i don't think its illegal, but it should be, they're a freakin native species and one of the few we've got left in CA that is still doing well.
i left a message with a fish and game biologist whom i interview awhile ago asking if it was legal or not, i hope its illegal. i wasn't going to let the guy do it again, the guy's only excuse was that he didn't want to catch the fish again.
If he's doing it just to kill the fish and leave it, it's terrible. Where I fish in NY, many people leave the fish on the pier to die- but they do take it home. Still not ideal, but a bit better than letting it rot there.
In my state its illegal to left any fish, even invasive ones on bank of any waterway. So if i accidently killed rough fish (carp, bullhead, bowfin, etc) I usually take them home and bury them or cut them up as fish food for my fishes and farm cats (four legs hairy catfish with fangs)
just spoke to a DFG biologist, its illegal to waste any fish, apparently the law in a nutshell is either use it or throw it back.
If its cool out I throw my fish on the bank, though last time I did that some one stole them all! haha