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The fact that this is being kept so quiet worries me. I mean they could literally ruin the great lakes in a year or two if this is not done right. And the prob is most of us are out fishing in our free time, we dont have time to go protest somewhere but honestly its prolly what needs to be done to get some attention. Why sportfisherman have zero voice in this fight is a crock.

 

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Read the epilogue portion of the 1836 Treaty, post #24. What most don't get is that this is not a democratic process in trying to update the Consent. The Treaty allowed unrestricted fishing rights, both subsistence and commercial, for all waters within the Treaty boundaries. The Consent is a more definitive agreement of fishing rights and zones. Protesting, marching, and complaining to your legislator will do absolutely nothing other than maybe aggravating the Tribes. It not right to say we should hope for a fair and equitable solution. Lets just hope there is a plan to sustain the fishery.

The problem is whats fair now is different than what was fair back in the 1800s. They are free to target sportfish using the same methods we do. Why not just leave it at that.

 

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Its 2022 josh. We are just supposed to accept that any minority group will have the upper hand over all of us. Its like they feel the need to compensate for something and go overboard. And with our current administration i dont see how we even have a chance here to keep our rights.

 

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Maybe gordon casey needs to read up on history. Iv read the books. And i know exactly who put the salmon in thr great lakes. It surely wasnt any commercial fisherman or indian tribe. Imo they have zero rights to the sportfish in the great lakes. Which means they dont get to target them by means other then sport fishing.

 

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There in lies the problem then. The state planting salmon in tribal waters where the tribes feel they have rights to 100% of the fish. The State really screwed up on that one. Our opinions really don’t count for anything. It’s the Federal judges opinion that matters.

Yea they really screwed up. Only created the best inland freshwater fishery in the world.

 

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If they didn’t do it there would be no sniveling and whining by sports fisherman who want to fish in tribal waters. The agreement was made before Michigan was a state.

Also if they didnt do it just think of how empty our lives would be. God bless tanner

 

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Funny, I didn't know non native commercial netters could harvest salmon. Glad you read "the books", I was fishing salmon in the 1960's

They cant. But the commercial fisherman were dead set against the introduction of salmon back then. If they had a say they would have never allowed it.

 

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An someone please explain to me how the indians have a right to a fish species that wasnt there when their treaty was signed or they had no part of creating? Im having trouble understanding how they should be allowed to net salmon at all

 

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Agreed. Some of it did make sense but he got all sorts of twisted up when it came to putting marker lights on net buoys.

That was my question. Was pleasantly surprized they took a shot at it. Everyone knows its a safety issue but addressing it is another thing.

 

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I give adam and jeremy alot of credit for hosting the q and a. I know the dnr was trying to explain how it wont be as bad as everyone thinks as a whole. But it all hinges on if the natives actually follow the law and follow the reporting rules. Which imo they cant be trusted based on their past activities i have seen in the lake. What makes the dnr so trustworthy of them now?

 

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Its christmas eve. Can we just forget about all this for a few days?