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Post by kingseeker on Aug 12, 2015 19:49:48 GMT -5
There's an open meeting with the Indiana DNR at 6 p.m., August 20 at 121 Skwiat Legion Ave. in Michigan City. Any INCCA member or other concerned fishermen are encouraged to attend. More information forthcoming if I get any. This is your chance to talk with the people that call the shots. We need large number's of anglers to show up and let them know that we care about 'OUR' FISHERY. Show up and voice your opinion it does COUNT. Don't let our lake turn into a laker only fishery
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Post by dayoff on Aug 21, 2015 8:12:11 GMT -5
I attended the meeting, I learned and heard so much I wouldn't know where to start typing it here. It does seem ancient "treaties" and outdated fish models of all the great lakes still require what fish get stocked. The meetings of all these groups needed to change Federal laker stocking. (sounds like congress, maybe some term limits are needed) The new quagga mussel www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2012/01/20/news/doc4f19cdea38889842971812.txt has taken over and killing the lower food chain, Alewives down to 20% of what they were. These quagga live down to 500 feet. About 10 years ago, charter boats wrote about 9,000 one day Indiana tickets. 2015 will be about 900. Most charter fishing is now NOT in Indiana. It also seems cleaning up the lake polluters has actually stopped some minerals that helped lake fish production. The BP discharge may actually be helping the west end. The charts shown seem to show Lake Michigan is trending just like Lake Huron did, the next 2 years are critical to come back or else. IMO, the asian carp got all the press coverage, while the quagga beat them to the food first.
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