Official Frankfort Thread 2022

It is hard to get any help from fishermen. We have a gathering of fishing clubs and conservation organizations that have been fighting this for years.

The DNR’s goal is to make sure the process is the punishment. They have dragged this out for 3 years now in hopes of bankrupting any opposition.

The Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources (CPMR) is the umbrella and was an Amicus Curiae in Federal Court. But, once the CPMR lawyers figured out the State was in bed with the Feds and the Tribes and were giving away the great lakes, it resulted in a yelling match, and the CPMR lawyers have been getting nothing from the state except stink eye.

The fight goes on. Objection Motions have been filed and unbelievably the judge said all objections will be adjudicated before the new nets become official.

The current decree was OK. If we could have just held on to a the current 50/50 split, everyone would have gone on their way…but no.

Same as energy policies, boarder protection etc. They could have just left them alone and we would have been fine…but no.


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Cutting nets, sinking net boats, boycotting casinos or licenses will do nothing but maybe land you in jail. I believe we can fight this legally.

If you do not want to see more gill netting of our fish, please consider signing the petition.... asap!


If you want to donate to help fund the legal fight to protect our fisheries, please consider the Coalition to Protect Michigan Fisheries.

Coalition to Protect MI Resources

Over a million MI fishing licenses are sold each year. I bet most of us hate seeing nets - especially unlighted gill nets. Yet only a tiny fraction of us speak up. If half of us actually do something, we could change this mess. It got this far because people like me thought others would protect our resources - so I just went fishing! Not anymore.

To be clear, some netting imo is reasonable and necessary. We need them so we can eat fish in restaurants and for people who don't fish. Tribal subsistence netting seems reasonable to me. My problem is with whimsically regulated unmonitored netting (especially 'for profit' operations) that could wipe out a fishery and specifically with gill nets. Personally, I also want tiny solar LED lights on all buoys.

It is time to fight the tribes, the DNR, the Feds and anybody else who thinks it is OK to let people, native or not, rape our fisheries. We need reasonable regulations with enforcement! PLEASE ACT on your beliefs!