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Article: LAKE MICHIGAN PERCH FISHING Commercial anglers worried They fear a ban would ruin business
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 30, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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In the late 1800s, Pete LeClair's great-grandfather came to
northeastern Wisconsin and set up shop as a commercial fisherman.
The family has maintained that profession ever since, including
the last 40-plus years that Pete LeClair has been the patriarch.
He remembers how it was when the commercial fishing business was
"the best" profession of all. Every day brought hard work and
weather that was always cruel in one form or another and always
demanding.
But the financial rewards were there, of course. And there was
freedom. And there were the "seas" of Green Bay and Lake Michigan.
There was the horizon to seek out, where a man could go as far as his
equipment and his physical strength ...