I think, myself, that anything which is very quick is good. there are probably a lot of ways of achieving that.
what I find less clear is how you measure, for want of a better phrase, pain or additional suffering in a fish - stress & serious physical suffering is clear, but if a fish needs euthanasing it's usually so immobile it's very easy to catch (someone once said in a thread somewhere else "if you can't catch it, you shouldn't put it down yet"
), how do you tell if the clove oil is causing extra distress before the fish dies? I've read reports of labyrinth fish reacting extremely poorly to clove oil, and I would be concerned that dojos might have the same issue...
I've had to put fish down before, and I netted them, transferred them to a board and hit them very hard behind the head with the sharp edge of a trowel. very quickly. not pleasant at all, but the quickest and surest method I could think of. I decided that the extra distress of being out of the water for a few seconds was as nothing compared to the distress they had suffered for some time prior to my intervention. I can see that this would be a horrible thing to do to a fish you'd had for ages and were very attached to, but I think that the extra distress it would cause would be for the owner and not for the fish. it would probably be more difficult for a very big fish, too.
just my view.
it's an unpleasant subject, but one that needs to be dealt with well...