Environment, Culture, and The Great Lakes Fisheries

The commercial fisheries of the United States and Canadian Great Lakes are in a long period of decline. Detailed statistics kept for well over a century document a fluctuating pattern of harvests of the major commercial species. In the 1940s, sea lamprey began to devastate the fisheries, an effect that has not been fully countered. Overfishing, nonnative species, declining nutrient levels, and chemical pollution have contributed to reduced catches. Court decisions in the United States and Canada during the past thirty years have awarded a sizable share of commercial fishing rights to Native North Americans for their own support and sustenance. The Lake Erie yellow perch and walleye fishery, based mainly in Ontario, is the most successful commercial fishing operation in the region. Despite the many environmental and cultural challenges, the Great Lakes fisheries live on

Biology · Commercial fishing · Fisheries management · Fishery · Fishing · Geography · Overfishing · Sustenance · Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior · Ecology · Fish Ecology and Management Studies · Transboundary Water Resource Management

• Caregivers’ Perspectives on the Determinants of Dietary Decisions in Six First Nation Communities

  Open Access•Lorrilee Mcgregor, Pamela Toulouse et al.•International Journal of…•2018

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• Heterogeneity of salmonid anglers in the southern Lake Michigan fishery

  Elizabeth Golebie, Elizabeth J Golebie et al.•Human Dimensions of Wildlife•2019

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• Rochester’s rivers, lake, and waste

  Open Access•Kristina M Chomiak, David J Connell et al.•Water History•2020

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• Measuring, mapping and quantifying the effects of trust and informal communication on transboundary collaboration in the Great Lakes fisheries policy network

  Open Access•Andrew M Song, Owen Temby et al.•Global Environmental Change•2018

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• Using geovisualization to assess lead sediment contamination in Lake St. Clair

  Open Access•K Wayne Forsythe, Chris H Marvin et al.•Canadian Geographies /…•2016

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• The Role of Geographic Expertise in International Border Disputes

  Morton E O’kelly•Annals of the Association of…•2012

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