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Want to find tasty morel mushrooms in the forest? Click the box above for tips and tricks to fill your basket.
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Recreational Safety and Hunter Education
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This page contains archived web content and is therefore provided outside of ADA Web Content Accessibility Guidelines pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 35.104 and § 35.201(g). It is provided here for reference or research purposes. If you require this information in a more accessible form, please email us at DNR-Webadministrator@Michigan.gov. Note that "archived web content" refers only to the status of the documents relative to ADA Web Content Accessibility Guidelines; the 2023 Great Lakes Consent Decree remains in effect until August 24, 2047.
On Aug. 24, 2023, U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney issued his opinion approving the 2023 Great Lakes Decree. The agreement applies to:
The agreement will define for the next 24 years how the state, the federal government and the tribes will cooperatively allocate and manage the resources in the 1836 Treaty-ceded waters of the Great Lakes. The opinion and the order approving the 2023 Great Lakes Fishing Decree are available below.
Opinion regarding the approval of the 2023 Great Lakes Decree
This area includes the Great Lakes waters east of Marquette in Lake Superior, north of Alpena in Lake Huron, and between Escanaba and Grand Haven in Lake Michigan.
The Great Lakes Decree is a legal document that defines the extent of tribal rights and describes how the state and the tribes will cooperatively allocate and manage the fisheries resources in the 1836 Treaty-ceded waters of the Great Lakes. It outlines management of numerous species but puts particular emphasis on lake trout and lake whitefish.
The 2000 Consent Decree expired in 2023 when a new decree was signed by the U.S. District Court. The 2023 Great Lakes Decree governs fisheries co-management in the 1836 Treaty waters of Michigan through the year 2047.
This area includes the Great Lakes waters west of Marquette in Lake Superior.
We work with tribes and the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission in the 1842 Treaty area to cooperatively manage fishery resources. We also share harvest and biological information from monitoring and independent survey efforts, and collaborate on population modeling and harvest limits.
For more information, contact Ben Rook or Dave Caroffino.
