M Lacs w/e ta be exploited?

[Lee Borgersen]

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.''


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.

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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