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Old 06-28-2008, 04:36 AM   #9
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I usually lay the fish on its back(dorsal down) and ice both sides of the fish to keep them fresh, not necessarily to avert weight loss.
At the risk of starting controversy, I will tell you a fish's weight loss is negligible at best. They simply do not lose much weight once dead. When I hear someone say they had a live 50 but it was 48 on the official scale, I laugh to myself. I caught and sold fish for 20 years on the cape. I would get a fish at night, somtimes weigh it on the spot then sell it the next day. The weight rarely, if ever, was different.Sometimes the fish would lay in the sand or floor of my boat all night with no ice.

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