I clean my fish right next to the lake here as my cleaning station is just a few feet from the water so just pitch them in the lake. As said above, the turtles and perch will eat them. Right after I first moved back up here I was keeping fish a lot more often and every time I went down to the boat house to clean fish and started to make noise you could see turtle heads pop up all along the water where I live. Then as you throw the car us in they would fight over which one got what, LOL!