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ECONOMIC IMPACT OF SPORT FISHING
Region wide sport fishing contributes fifteen billion dollars to local and state economies. A call for more recognition is long over due.
BACTERIAL KIDNEY DISEASE (BKD) Even with attempts of cooperation among neighboring state agencies to lick the issue, lack of funding could hurt us here. We still haven't found the cause or the cure..
ETHICS OF COMMERCIAL FISHING
Management and legislators refuse to recognize the immorality and lack of ethics in the industry.
TRIBAL HARVESTING
17th Century practices as we enter the 21st century.
PERCH DECLINES
Precipitous declines continue in Lake Michigan but add chubs to the same issue. A continuing decline in the bottoms up and top down food chain due to introduced exotics will preclude management from finding a cure to prevent this continuing decline.
PHOSPHATE REDUCTIONS
Continue to impact the very foundation of our aquatic food chains.
EXOTICS
Stronger controls needed region wide to eliminate biological pollution including micro-bacterial, aquatic, and vegetative exotics.
LAKE TROUT RESTORATION
Symbol, not fish. Review economics and negative health implications.
RETURNING REGIONAL ECOSYSTEMS TO 1805
Mind set of some Government and private interest groups to return our fishery back to 1805, which calls for the elimination of stocking such species as Large and Small mouth Bass, Steelhead, Brown trout, Coho salmon and Chinook salmon.
CONNECTED WATERSHEDS One of the most pressing problems confronting resource management and the sport fishing community is artificially connected watersheds that exchange acquatic systems , possibly to the detriment of one watershed or the other or both. An excellent illustration is the Chicago Waterway System connecting Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River watershed. Economically a boon; environmentally a dramatic bust!
RESOURCE DEPARTMENT CUTBACKS Budget constraints in our resource departments are adversely affecting management decisions and research to the detriment of our resources and the sport fishing community.
ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE OF THE GREAT LAKES REGIONCongress for years has placed the Great Lakes region at an economic disadvantage to other regions of the country. We must get the message across to our federal legislators that the Great Lakes region is not only an economic necessity to the country but a wealth of natural resource that can't be replaced if allowed to deteriorate.
