TOPIC:

Great Lakes Salmon Initiative

What can we as anglers expect fishing this year on Lakes Huron and Michigan? What can we expect in future years? So much depends on weather, water levels, productivity, bait fish, and states/federal stocking agenda. For example we are facing Lake Trout creel limit reductions and or season closures in northern Lakes Huron and Michigan

The GLSI has been advocating to maintain Chinook plants, coho movement, zonal management, Brown Trout movement, angler access, economic impact and resisting the native only Lake Trout agenda. To get answers to these questions and many more join the GLSI this weekend at:

This Saturday March 2nd 2-5pm
Jays Sporting Goods Clare, Mi

Randy Claramunt the Lake Huron Basin Coordinator and Dave Carrofino from the MDNR Tribal Coordination Unit are scheduled to attend. They are here to answer questions and more importantly to listen to anglers.

AS anglers we can expect the MDNR to manage our fisheries properly but we also have the responsibility to tell our managers what we want. Even more importantly they need to hear what we want as this gives them the power to negotiate with federal agencies for our interests.

TOPICS:
*Chinook reductions/increases
*Federal vs States agenda
*Zonal Management
*lakes wide impact including UP access
*Coho movement Lakes Michigan Huron
*Recreational angling economic impact
*Charter vs Recreational angler
*Tribal interests Consent Decree 2020
*whitefish vs cisco vs lake trout restoration
*state/tribal trout allocations
*Bait assessments
*Intra lake movement of fish
*Fish tagging/clipping/stomach data and how anglers can
participate
*Commercial angling

These topics listed are some of the items that you may want to hear about. Again, this is your time to learn, participate, ask questions, give your opinions and be heard!!

Hope to see you there

My wife and I attended this meeting yesterday. Randy Claramunt did a good job explaining his position and role as Lake Huron Basin co ordinator. There was much discussion based around the Kings presently being stocked in Lake Huron that are counted as lake Michigan fish. Lake Huron does not have a predator to prey model and Randy is presently working on one. Once Randy has completed his Lake Huron model we will have a better outlook on exactly what is happening. Are the Huron Kings traveling to Lake Michigan? Or is the forage base of Huron large enough to supply enough food for those kings? If the model shows that in fact there is not enough food forage to supply to those kings then should they be moved to Lake Michigan? A lot of good discussion based around science. Glad I had a chance to be there and participate in asking questions.