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"Fish for All: The Legacy of Lake Michigan Fisheries Management and Policy” is the GLCMS’s most extensive project since its founding. Funded in part by the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, the project considers Great Lakes society’s most visible stakeholder groups — state and federal government offices, and commercial, tribal, and sport fishers. From the start, “Fish for All” has embodied the integrated philosophy of the GLCMS. In the quest to elicit the historical voice of each fishery perspective, we have sought direct participation from each stakeholder group; indeed, each has been instrumental in the success of the “Fish for All” documentation project.
This collaboration between the academic, museum, and public sectors has taken the “Fish for All” team into homes to collect oral histories, artifacts, photographs, and documents, into state Department of Natural Resources offices to confer with fisheries managers, and aboard fishing boats to observe the work of state-licensed commercial fishers, Native American fishers, and sport fishers. Paradoxically, while the history of fisheries management on Lake Michigan has been a contested legacy among fish-using groups, each is undeniably linked by the resource and the lake that produces it. It is our hope that the GLCMS’s collective approach to “Fish for All” will serve as an initial and longstanding means to explore the shared and complicated history of the Great Lakes region.
In November, 1998, when the Great Lakes Center for Maritime Studies (GLCMS) signed a $198,720 grant contract with the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, “Fish for All: The Legacy of Lake Michigan Fisheries Policy and Management” officially began. The GLCMS agreed to develop a traveling museum exhibition and produce a publication and educational materials. The “Fish for All” project team is advised by a committee consisting of: Ellie Coon of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Cindi John of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians; Forrest Williams of the Michigan Fish Producers Association; Bruce Wojcik of the Michigan United Conservation Clubs, and Earl Wolfe of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.
Information about the "Fish for All" can be found by clicking on the following links:
Research
Exhibition
Publications
Project Staff
Fish for All: Perspectives on the History of Lake Michigan Fisheries Management and Policy is made possible by a grant awarded by the Great Lakes Fishery Trust
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