I know many states have regulations on "wanton waste". Essentially, it is illegal for a person to kill a game animal or a species of wild fowl to fail intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence to salvage for human consumption the edible meat of the animal or fowl. Some of the typical cases would be cutting the antlers off an animal and leaving animal, or taking the back straps and leaving the rest of the meat.
From the pictures it is clear these fish are not spoiled, they still have great color. I'm guessing they did it for one of the following reasons:
1.) No licence, out of state licenses tend to be more expensive.
2.) They were over the legal daily limit for crappies and bass. Or it may be certain lakes have slot limits on the size of these fish, (for game management, sometimes only certain sized fish may be harvested).
3.) They were too lazy to clean them and didn't want to deal with them (most likely).
Regardless, nice work reporting them and I hope they are punished.
