Can you compost fish guts

There are things that do, but it's pretty high on the wretched stench list. I have no doubt that activated carbon would help mitigate that. But it seems like extra effort for little gain. Like, put in 1 unit of compostable goodies, but also have to produce. Also, if we can smell it even a little, it's probably like a lighthouse beacon for pests. D Nikolls.

A friend did it for a while as well. Nothing but woodchips and said waste fish A barrel is way too small to hot compost, I am guessing that is an important difference.. Jay Angler. I've only ever composted small quantities of fish and relied on "lots of carbon and other stuff" to contain the smell. Wood chips take a long time to decompose. They require special lignin digesting microbes which aren't in fish.

I do have to bury lots of fowl guts and bodies and I've found that wrapping stinky stuff in old feed bags heavy brown paper so there are multiple layers surrounding it has worked better for me. Having things like "chicken shit inoculated wood-chips" below, around and above, also seems to help.

I've had good results with bokashi fermentation of the carcass and guys prior to adding it to the compost pile. Dan Boone. My mother's "fish barrel" salmon offal and water left to ferment in the sun was a legendary stink.

However, most of the heads and guts when the salmon were running got dug into trenches in the rows between raised beds, and got covered by lots and lots of decomposed sawdust. The smell was pretty much restricted to that section of the garden, and not too dramatic. However, digging root vegetables from those beds in September after burying the material in July was One wanted to be cautious about where to step or shovel.

Douglas Alpenstock. Back when the fishing was good on the East coast of Canada, it was common practice to bury a "junk" fish under each potato plant. The results supposedly spoke for themselves. Perhaps the stink spoke loudly as well -- I have not found written mention of it.

We have a neighbor that composts fish from the local fisherman, and uses wood chips keeps turning for about a month and has beautiful compost.

Steve Mendez. I took part in a Rainbow Trout mort composting project using a 3 bin system built from pallet wood at the College of Southern Idaho Fish Hatchery in the early 90s. Even before you wrote this, I was already thinking about whether memories of plentiful fish make me an old man in this world. The time we were gillnetting subsistence king salmon in enough quantity that disposal of the offal was a problem was forty-five years ago. These days, it's my understanding that they do individual fish counts by sonar on the upper reaches of the Yukon in Eastern Alaska, so that enough escapement into Canada can happen to satisfy our treaty obligations.

I'm told that most years now, there are either zero fish available for local subsistence fishing or the number is so few, people are happy to get one or two fish for fresh eating. The chum dog salmon typically fished in the fall for sled dog food and by people with food insecurity they are smaller fish that get beat to hell by the first miles of their spawning run, so they aren't very appealing have until recently stayed reasonably plentiful, but the news out of Alaska in the last few weeks is that this year's run failed spectacularly.

People are organizing crowd funding for emergency dogfood air freight shipments to several rural communities, where many sled dogs are at risk of starvation. Sorry, didn't mean to divert the thread. Just musing. Dan Fish. I have never composted fish but I buried a trout's remains near some shrubs this weekend!

If you have understanding neighbors and the olfactory tolerance, you can create your own liquid fish fertilizer by composting the guts in a barrel with water along with wood chips, grass clippings, or vegetable scraps.

But I do always scatter filleted bream and crappie carcasses across my garden plot and till them right into the ground. It's like you're burying nuclear waste.

I bet this turns out to be a double post. I use any fish parts I get by burying them deeply into the center of an large hot pile and making sure there are a lot of leaves on top. All of my piles are open, I don't use any kind of containers.

There hasn't been any critter problems, and even my trio of guard cats have not shown any interest. As for annpat, you certainly have a whole lots of rules up there in Maine regarding compost I guess we're a little more easy going in Southern New England ;-. Other than not composting bread and burying fish below the raccoon olfactory level, what else?

The reason I'm so careful when burying fish in my garden I don't worry about it in the compost. I always assumed that was because the smell was distributed widespread by my smelly shovel. I understand the issue about soggy bread, New Englanders are supposed to be "quirky" and all that. My stomach may be stronger than yours, at least where bread is concerned, but don't get me started about putting dead voles and moles into compost Anyway, I became a little worried when you started writing "Do not let a single particle of soil or shovel above the 14" mark get tainted by fish smell.

Just a little odd for a New Englander, but there are regional differences of course. Well, just to show there are no hard feelings, I'll be sending you a gallon of my finest compost vole free of course for your certification. As for the fish parts, I think the best way to deal with them is throwing them into a hot compost pile.

If you really want to bury them in the garden, not only should you bury them in a deep trench, but add a good inches of soil on top. He used a three row method: the first row was for plants, the second to walk on and the third to bury his refuse.

Not only did he dig a deep trench to bury the scraps, but he would dig out from his walking path more soil to throw on top. This way as the scraps were consumed and the soil settled, he would still have good coverage from critters.

My family would supply him with fish all summer long mainly blue fish and flounder , and he and his wife put all of their kitchen waste into their garden. Man fish guts work great, just dig a hole and put them in.

I've done this since I was a kid, easy way to get rid of the smell and made the plants grow like crazy. Just spread them around the garden. I usually went a good 3 shovelfulls and dumped them in. The Native American tribes of oklahoma used to bury a whole fish in the ground under their corn?

I believe seeds. My 74 yr old father in law is both Chickasaw and Kiowa. We will be trying this idea out this year. Indem Sie weiterhin auf der Website surfen bzw. Mehr erfahren. Bathroom Fixtures.

Dining Furniture. Sign In. Join as a Pro. Houzz TV. Houzz Research. Asked by: Bittor Copin pets fish and aquariums How do you compost fish waste? Last Updated: 28th May, Collect fish wastes and place them in several layers with carbon wood chips, rice hulls or straw, etc. Remember to turn the piles for aeration, which can make sure piles can get enough air for better composting. Ariadnna Lalanda Professional.

Can you compost banana peels? Composting banana peels is as easy as simply tossing your leftover banana peels into the compost. You can toss them in whole, but be aware that they may take longer to compost this way.

While, yes, you can use banana peels as fertilizer and it will not harm your plant, it is best to compost them first. Layra Hayt Professional.

Can you put meat in compost? You can compost meat , but the problem is that it will start to smell and attract flies and maggots as well as neighbourhoods cats and dogs possibly. It also slows down the composting process. You can use a bokashi bin to preprocess all left-overs including meat , fish and dairy. Edenia Mirasol Professional. How long does it take for fish scales to decompose? The translucent material, called MarinaTex, is made from fish scales and skin — materials that break down in food-waste bins within about four to six weeks.

Bernat Louzan Explainer. What chemicals are in fish waste? In an aquaponics system, the fish provide nutrients in the form of their "waste," or excrement. This waste contains nitrogen in the form of ammonia too much of which can be toxic to fish , along with a variety of nutrients like phosphorus and potassium. Jeshua Stanescu Explainer. Can you put prawn heads in compost?

Shrimp shells, like other shellfish, are useful in compost. The shells contain compounds that feed bacteria and fungi which, in turn, helps the soil to break down. When used in a potato patch, the compounds in shrimp shells can destroy hatching eggs of nematodes, which can damage the plants and destroy the crop. Fundadora Schwarzing Explainer.