Croaker Stuffed with Vegetables

Ingredients:
6 fresh croakers, 2 to 3 pounds each
3 teaspoons salt or to taste
1 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
cooking spray
1/4 stick butter (divided use)
1 teaspoon Old Bay crab spice

Stuffing:
1 stick butter
3 cups fresh chopped onion
2 cups fresh chopped celery
2 cups fresh chopped mushrooms
1 cup fresh chopped green peppers
2 cloves fresh garlic, minced real fine
4 fresh tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped into small pieces
6 cups soft bread crumbs (not croutons)
1 teaspoon salt

Directions:
Sprinkle salt and pepper inside and outside of fish.
Place in baking dish sprayed with cooking spray.
Melt the butter and brush half of it
onto the fish inside and outside.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
and bake fish for about 15 minutes.
While you are baking the fish, make the stuffing.
Melt butter in saute pan, add remaining ingredients,
stir and cook until vegetables are tender (about 15 minutes).
Stuff the fish with the vegetable stuffing.
Use the rest of the melted butter to baste the fish again.
Bake another 15 minutes or until fish flakes.