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Port Clinton, Ohio: Plastic-Eating Walleye

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Address:
2 N. Madison St., Port Clinton, OH
Directions:
North edge of downtown, on the north end of Madison St., on the south edge of the Portage River.
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Plastic-Eating Walleye

Large, 11-foot-long "recycling fish" with a wire frame belly is designed to swallow discarded plastic bottles from visitors.

Roadsideamerica.com Report... [07/26/2021]

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Plastic-Eating Walleye

Plastic-Eating Walleye

There are actually two of these in town.

[Melanie, 04/23/2024]

This particular fish was unveiled in 2019. Guess there's enough plastic in Port Clinton to feed two.


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