would you have cleaned the fish?
I mean, if you never have before, like Alan never did?
Vic threw away all of Alan's from the trap he built, that would have gave them supper for a couple days, but then Alan ends up throwing away all the other fish anyway, kind of like payback. Vic could have just left Alan alone on the island and taken the rest of the fish back.
I guess I would have tried cleaning them. I still haven't cleaned a fish in my life, but I haven't been fishing steadily in years. It seemed pretty easy the way Vic showed Alan how to do it.