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Author Topic: M Lacs w/e ta be exploited?  (Read 1719 times)

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Offline Lee Borgersen

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DNR, Chippewa bands say numbers are right to open Mille Lacs walleye harvest

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A majority of the lake's current 14-inch-plus walleyes were hatched in 2013, a "year class'' that is old enough now to be "exploited.'' :confused:


After years of catch-and-release angling, management of Mille Lacs walleye has the lake ready for a season that can support 150,000 pounds of harvested fish.

ISLE, MINN. – Whatever else can be said of the court-ordered co-management by the Department of Natural Resources and eight Chippewa bands of Lake Mille Lacs fisheries, the giant body of water that extends some 18 miles across from this east-central Minnesota town of 800 possesses one of the most studied walleye populations in the world. :doah:

Those fish have increased in size and number sufficiently in recent years, DNR officials told a stakeholders group Tuesday evening at Appeldoorn’s Sunset Bay Resort on Mille Lacs, that beginning in May a limited harvest of these fish is possible.

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http://www.startribune.com/dnr-chippewa-bands-say-numbers-are-right-to-open-mille-lacs-walleye-harvest/506273572/

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