when i was 14, i was a deckhand on a tourist fishing boat; we used to filet the catch on the way back to the pier & throw the skeletons w/ skin in the air to the gulls trailing in our wake to the joy of all.
Love your weird job stories.
As a kid I used to despise the little bastards, but now I really respect their clout as an invasive species. Us humans can hardly complain about *that*...
Human waste consumption as an ecological niche is pretty cool, too.