Fish never go to waste IMO. Ours get put in teh fields for fertilizer and critters and raptorsto eat. Freeze a few for trappin and give few to people to smoke but when you shoot 2-3 barrels of fish totaling about 300-1200 on a give dayor night of shooting its tough to do anything else but spread em in the fields. Look at it this way you are doin more to not waste the fish by removing them from the water than if you where to leave them. Thats a waste of game fish that could be swimin in their place or never hatched to due to nest disturbances of invasive fish. Good luck, shoot em up. WCL