Perhaps the article was written wrong...there's no law against having a large number of cleaned and ready to eat fish (imagine all the restaraunts that have freezers full of catfish, tuna, etc.) The article makes it seem that all 600 fish were caught, cleaned, and sold on the same day...which would exceed the creel/possession laws.

My dad catches his daily limit of crappie on Lake Okeechobee and brings back coolers full of them (I would guess over 150 filleted crappie) at the beginning of spring for our annual family fish fry. Is it illegal for him to possess 150 crappie even though he caught them over a two month period? Surely not!!

Then again, who knows...seems like our Govt thrives on the premise of "making it up as we go" in regards to rules and regs and has the power to "read into the rules as they wish" in regards to the consequences.