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Great Lakes Governors Launch '100% Whitefish' Initiative': Love the Smell of Fish!

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The '100% Whitish" Initiative is designed to bring back fishing through increasing the value of Whitefish for commercial use. According to the press release, "Campaign aims to demonstrate how commercially caught Great Lakes whitefish can be more fully used, raising per fish value toward $3,500" (Michigan Department of Natural Resources.)

The Conference of Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors & Premiers got their minds together to ponder how to increase the value of whitefish in the Great Lakes. When we look at places like Iceland's fishing policies that have returned some of their commercial fishing industries. we should always implement best practices into the Great Lakes (It would be nice to not think as much about limiting catches but about how to increase total fish populations and manage the permits to that increase. Paying special attention to ensure a variety of different commercial fishing opportunities such as owner-operator boats to large commercial fleets. That would mean much of the tax revenue from fishing would go directly back into fish development and fish environment creation to increase populations. I'm assuming it doesn't now. 🤔) 

Great Lakes commercial fishing has been on the decline due to mismanagement, pollution, and misuse of resources. There are many interested stakeholders that would like to bring back commercial fishing with abundant renewable fish supplies. It takes regional stakeholders to create self-renewing large scale systems that can regenerate. You have to think from a wide angle lens perspective and have enough science to know the inputs and outputs, basic relationships between events, how to refunnel related tax revenue back into the industry, and how to improve the overall health of the system.

(Here are my initial thoughts. Good, good, good! We need a strong source of protein to serve a growing world population. If we took the Great Lakes as a macro ecological system that is mixed with our regional macro economic system we begin to see why it is so important to managed the environmental safety of the system as well as increase its total economic value. My dream of someday working a few days off of a fishing boat out of Escanaba might someday be realized. 😂 Ok....really.... just more of a future hobby I'm thinking about. Maybe if we can get a new classification of individual hobby local commercial fishing permits might work in keeping money in a community as well as offering fresh Great Lakes fish to local restaurants/stores. A local market! Who wouldn't want to be on the water every few days? I mean really. You can get satellite internet. ðŸŽ£ )

You might be interested in this documentary on commercial fishing in the Great Lakes. Since I like to learn how they do it the video provides some pretty solid advice. I don't c

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