I found the scrap sections fill-up too soon with the guts, fish heads and carcass. I found myself emptying the scrap sections too often to make this type cleaning board any benefit. I went back to using newspaper under my old 2' X 2' wooden cutting board where I just push the guts, fish heads and etc. onto the newspaper and at the end of the cleaning duties I just roll up the newspaper, guts, heads and all and throw it in the trash. Just my experience with this type board. May be good for a 1/2 doz or so pan fish but when you clean a lot of pan fish it just doesn't make much sense.