Thanks Bill for the first REAL reason not to put fish waste in the pond. So I guess the real answer is ...
it depends.
I guess I was doing good putting my waste into the back pond, as the front one was fenced in and used for cattle in past years, can you say algae bloom. The back pond didn't have this problem, newer, much deeper, no excess 'fertilizer' runing into it. Also I'm sure that everything was getting eaten, my first use of cleanings was to bait trot lines and then chum the channel.
I tried putting stuff in the garden at my last house, critters kept digging it up. The coyotes even dug up a deer carcass that my landlord buried with his bobcat. Then our dogs rolled in it, worst smell ever (and these were smelly dogs back then).
Maybe if I had built a bomb proof compost pile, but that was too much like work. Vegetable remains just got tossed along the lean too to decompose, animal waste got buried or fed into the pond, and burying didn't work too good for us.
Matt
