, a proposed Great Lakes Consent Decree was submitted to the court by four of the five sovereign Tribal nations, the State of Michigan and the federal government.
The proposed decree — given the stamp of approval for and negotiated by the Michigan DNR — places millions of feet of indiscriminate, lethal gill nets into waters that have not had them in decades. West Grand Traverse Bay saw its lake trout fishery collapse in 1979 due to overfishing from gill nets. The fishery took decades to recover.
Stay tuned to MUCC communications as MUCC reviews and provides more comments regarding the proposed decree. Our legal team is reviewing the proposed decree and will have more robust written comments in the next few weeks.
