Could have been the outcome of a phucked freezer really & the missus gave him an ear bashing about not having a stinky bin. Highly unlikely someone would throw away fillets

I wouldav dropped them outa the bags and in the drink, even if it feeds the rays, mind you, if they were at room temp for too long, the bin is the only option

 id hope so but you think they would have friends or family

 I wouldn't give me friends or family fish from a beggared freezer. Maybe the neighbours though 

Had a fun incident with my freezer while I was away from home for my wedding for a week a while back. Yep came home and the freezer had shat itself, with all the contents well and truly matured inside it by then. I didn't even bother looking at what was what, Fish Fillets, Bait, Steaks, Lamb, etc, all just went straight in my bin at home and the bin sat out the front of the house before being collected the next day thankfully. Even more fun was all the juices that had leaked out and had settled onto the floor in a sticky stink goo.

So you might very well find that old mate may have had his freezer die while he was away, so nothing was salvageable to give away. Personally think dumping in the ocean to feed the rays would have been a good idea to. But have to remember that counts as littering if caught by a Ranger. Plus it would depend how far 'matured' the meat was by the time you found it to decide whether or not to even put it in your car to take it and dump it.

personally I dont think its worth a rant.

If you look at it logically, why would someone go to the bother of filletting skinning and boning 50 fish just to chuck them away? Its obviously a freezer failure or similar.

Be a different situation if they were all whole fresh fish dumped...

But wouldnt you empty the bags into the ocean to feed other species rather than it going into land fill?

If that's all he had in his failed freezer it was either a small freezer or the dudes poor.

Obviously , he didn't bag them up just to dump them . Most probably forgot to get rid off them on the water and put them in the bin upon his return . Shit happens .

EDIT .. I suppose if you do take spoilt fillets out for burly etc .. fisheries can bust you , so maybe thats not such a great idea  

fisheries where checking boats ahead and they ditched them before the inspectors arrived?

Fisheries dont dump illegal seisures do they?

Maybe it was confiscated for filleting at sea them fisheries dumped them?

funny story i took some fish to work from exmouth last year rankin cod mainly anyway we didnt get a chance to eat it that swing when i got back my whole room was stripped we lost power due to a thunderstorm the night i flew out 5 days later someone smelt something so the cleaners went in to take a look! the freezer was dead and the fish had gone green! the cleaner threw up and they had to replace the freezer and keep the room open for days to get rid of the stench!! never the less lets just say that cleaner doesnt like me too much anymore!

 I had the same happen with a bar fridge that was turned down to zero by my youngest son when he was about 3. This was at our holiday van at the time and he thought he was doing the right thing. I had a Wrasse in the freezer part. Well when we turned up there three weeks later the stench nealry punched me out the door. The worst part was that it had permiated into all the beers in there too, I nearly cried.

 After not being home for 3 days I came home to find my fish freezer completely defrosted. I have lost all my fillets, squid and occy. The fish was not even cold so couldn't give it away to neighbours.  I didn't exactly have much time to throw the fish into the water and I don't think the guys fishing off the rocks would've appreciated me throwing that much fish, squid and occy around them. I personally don't enjoy filleting fish so was rather pissed off about the waste off fish, time and effort. Fisherking freezer is huge and definitely not poor.

I had my mum and dad caravan up to Dampier years ago when dad pulled out the supply cable for the caravan when they left he also managed to dislodge the cable for my freezer I didn't realise until 5 days later until I noticed a funny odour when I opened the tucker box up I nearly chundered I ended up getting rid of the freezer It wasn't even good for bait I rang him and gave him a serve I regret it now he is gone

 Thanks buz my deckie has already offered me some fish. What amazes me is the fillets were also with a shit load of yellow tail and herring in 2 big garbage bags with the draw strings pulled tight poser must have bad sense of smell cause I couldn't stay near that bin for more than 30 seconds. He must of spent some time getting half the fillets out digging through all the other shit.

 digging threw it when I put my dinner in the bin shit was every wear half off it was all ready on the floor didnt see any thing else but all these fillets ? 

I had 50 dozen Oysters that had come back across The Nulla with me from Ceduna still live after the trip only to go in my freezer that Fked out a week later....Noticed them when the smell caught my attention. You`r welcome to come grab them if it happens again Poser...

initially i can see why this would piss you off.  50 good fish dying for no reason.  but look a little deaper (as most above have suggested), and it's probably just a freezer failure or something similar.  no way would you go through the trouble of filleting etc just to throw it out.  Perhaps it could have been used as burley or bait, but at the end of the day just looks like bad luck.

Troy has popped up here and explained what happened.

get past it and turn attention to posting interesting stuff rather than inquisitions maybe now?