Minnesota Fishing Regulations

3.5 million miles of water run throughout the United States; and since the country’s conception, over 80,000 dams have impounded 600,000 miles of these waters [1]. Dams were originally constructed to provide water to towns and establishes energy sources for mills and later hydroelectric plants. Because these dams were constructed decades ago, they’re reaching a critical point of obsoleteness where they cause more harm than good. Dam removal is increasingly popular across the country to address the ecological problems including habitat loss and sedimentation, despite potential for downstream harm, removing dams is more environmentally and economically cost effective than upgrading them. The Marmot, Glines Canyon, and Elwha river dam removal projects each highlight different challenges of dam removal, but overall

The same activities are carried out in order to increase the food available for game species, and in turn increase their numbers for hunters. Hunting can disrupt natural food chains as well. It disrupts the natural prey-predator cycles that are so important for the sustenance of the forest. Long term effects of hunting take a toll on forests and they are slowly lost to us. Now let’s learn a little about fishing and how it effects the environment.

Beside these arguments, there is also a more quantitative side to the debate. The ecological detriments of the Glen Canyon Dam have been well-documented. Extensive changes were brought about in the Colorado River ecosystem by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam. Most of these alterations negatively affected the functioning of the system and the native aquatic species of the river. The reduced supply and transport of

“Restoring an ecologically complete ecosystem in Yellowstone requires the return of willows--and with them, beavers. There's a clear threshold for ecosystem recovery. Willow stands must be more than 6 feet tall, the scientists found. That height is important, says Marshall. Then willows are beyond the reach of browsing elk, and can serve as seed sources for new young willows. Once willows have returned, beavers will gnaw down a certain number of them to build dams. The dams will further slow stream flow, allowing yet more willows to grow. The results offer new insights on the role of wolf-driven trophic cascades in the Yellowstone ecosystem, says Hobbs. Trophic cascades like that in Yellowstone occur when predators--or the lack thereof--in an ecosystem change the abundance or alter traits of their prey, in turn affecting the next lower trophic level.” ("National Science Foundation", 2013)

In 1990, the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians (also known as the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) sued the state of Minnesota, declaring that the 1837 treaty with the United States government gave them the right to hunt, fish, as well as gather free of state regulation on land ceded within the treat. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) tried to avoid a drawn-out court battle, so instead, the DNR worked with the Mille Lacs Band to reach a settlement arrangement. The agreement would have required the band to eliminate their lawsuit, restrict the Lake Mille Lacs walleye harvest to 24,000 pounds per year. In return, the state would administer the band with $8.6 million, 7,500 acres of land, as well as exclusive fishing rights on 4.5% of Lake Mille Lacs (also included traditional spear fishing/netting practices).

For over one hundred years the salmon population in the Columbia Basin has been drastically decreasing, due to overfishing and man made obstacles. The Columbia Basin Fish Accords have given a one billion dollar grant to tribes and states for habitat restoration projects. However, the conflict still rages between the native tribes of the area, and the federal government whose roadblocks such as dams prohibit the free flowing rivers that bring salmon back to the spawning grounds. The effort to keep salmon coming back up the river while keeping the dams intact is the struggle that the federal grant hopes to solve.

Have you ever heard of the issue of walleye spawn netting on mille lacs done by the native americans on the reservations surrounding the lake? I believe that the netting should be stopped just because I think that it disrupts the spawning of the fish. And it doesn't help with the survival of the fish because if not as many walleye are spawning because they get netted then there is a low survival and close to a zero reproduction rate. What happens is that the Natives place gill nets in shallow water right before the walleye are about to spawn and they net them when they come up shallow. They also are able to net them before the walleye season even starts for non tribal members and like this year the non tribal members are able to net and keep fish, But the non tribal members are not able to keep any walleye. They have to do catch and release and they are also not able to fish from 10 P.M. to 6 A.M.

Dams are created by humans and dams disrupt wildlife, therefore humans disrupt wildlife. California, being a state with dams, has rivers and chaotic nature running through itself. One of the mains rivers in California is the San Joaquin, is a dammed river and its damnation has led to many downfalls in nature. Bill McEwen and Daniel Wientraub have observed the river and it’s stats, and with the upcoming restoration plan, the two obviously have expectations on how the plan will affect the river. They expect salmon populations to rise, or at least be stable, positive effects on the recreation and the economical reign to expand.

This case United States v. Winans supports the doctrine of reserved rights, the Yakima Indians lived in Washington on a reservation called the Yakima Nation. As a feature of their bargain with the United States government, the Yakima Indians had the elite appropriate to angle in the streams and conduits on their reservation and the privilege to take angle in the typical and acclimated puts outside of their reservation. Regardless of these rights, the State of Washington started to issue angling licenses to people living outside the Yakima Nation and to allow authorized people to set up angling wheels in the streams around the Yakima Nation. These angling wheels got most if not the majority of the fish in

In Minnesota it is illegal to use goldfish as bait while fishing. But I can kind of see why because when I did research on fish that will eat goldfish and pretty much any fish with a large mouth will eat them. But then again it probably be bad for the fish that’s eating it anyway. But I guess that doesn’t matter since you just caught a fish and its going to be dead anyway. I think it should be a law because when I was researching this I noticed that people mostly use goldfish to catfish.

But overfishing - combined with a loss of habitat and the construction of dams in tributaries, which prevented spawning – has nearly exterminated the species, leading non-profit and government agencies to coordinate programs in hopes of restoring the numbers.

With human development, industrial pollution and other factors all contribute to the deteriorated condition of the river, which makes it difficult to determine the dams’ environmental impact in isolation. CITE That said, the current operations of the dam hamper and potentially prevent environmental improvement of the Colorado. In order to preserve some semblance of the Colorado ecosystem, man must restore the natural processes that created the ecosystem. The real question is how to do that, whether via dam decommission or a less extreme policy change.

To many people are dying due to fishing. Canada has to make fish industries less deadly. Fishing industry has cost about 190 Canadian lives since 2000 and it has to improve its culture of safety, the Transportation Safety Board. The causes of fatalities in the fishing industries is that most fishers decide to fish when the weather is in or is going to be in a bad condition, workers have to fish in those conditions because they need the money or they are behind in their quota for the year. Also, sometimes the vessels do not carry a distress communication device. “In Canada, falling overboard is the second highest cause of fatality in the fishing industry,”. “The safety of fishermen will be compromised until the complex relationship and inter

Let’s put our focus on the ecological cons. The fish can’t go down the river all the way. In addition, it creates a lake which then creates too many nutrients. When too many nutrients build up (like algae) it causes species such as fish to

Imagine the world without hunting laws and regulations, the ecosystem would be unbalanced. Beneficial hunting would go down and possibly lead to certain animal species extinction’s; therefore, to avoid detrimental changes in the ecosystem, people need regulations and laws to keep balance. Both society and the environment play a role in maintaining a balance between each other. For many years game wardens have helped patrol and protect the untamed environment. There are times where problems will arise and can be very difficult to handle, yet there is always a way to solve these problems. It just might take some time to put the plan into action to make a change.