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Article: DNR to keep tight limits on commercial fishing: LAKE SUPERIOR: Fishermen's group blames pressure from sports anglers for reversal on lake trout limits.
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- Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2006
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Byline: Sam Cook
Aug. 16--If you order a lake trout dinner on the North Shore, chances are the fillet will have come from a Wisconsin or Ontario lake trout.
Reversing its earlier proposal, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has decided not to expand commercial harvesting of lake trout by state commercial fishermen. In December 2005, the DNR had proposed to allow the taking of 3,000 lake trout by commercial fishermen in MN-3, a zone near the Canadian border. The proposal was part of a larger Lake Superior fisheries management plan. Such commercial fishing is called "assessment netting" because it would have required that commercial ...