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Originally Posted by ghostguy6

It is legal but two things come to mind, don't dump the scraps overboard if you have a line in the water or it could be considered chumming and make sure you have a fire extinguisher on board to satisfy the Transport Canada regs. It might also be a good idea to take a photo of the fish to prove it was of legal size just in case there is an issue.

I asked a wild life officer directly one time when he stopped by my boat to do his regular checks
" Is it considered chumming if you clean your fish and throw the guts over the side into the lake?"

His reply was "No, it's not as it is for the preservation of the quality of the fish, and the discarded bits come from a fish that was just harvested from that same body of water." So that has been my standard for many years. Having said that the law is open to the interpretation of the individual, so another officers opinion may differ.