MILLE LACS LIVES MATTER!!
State Government Must Act!
Vote for CHANGE!
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Circle Your Answers
• Mille Lacs fish allocations. Think 5,000,000 Minnesotans vs 50,000 Chippewa enrollees (8 bands). The 2015 tribal allocations: 50% of Mille Lacs pike and perch; almost 30 percent of Mille Lacs walleyes. DO YOU AGREE THESE ALLOCATIONS ARE UNFAIR AND MUST CHANGE?
YES NO
• Gillnetting spawning walleyes. DNR warns against “further depleting” walleye spawning stock; and cites low survival of young walleyes and a too-few-males gender imbalance. DO YOU AGREE WITH LAKE-WATCHERS WHO WANT GILLNETTING ACTIVITY AND MOTORING OVER MILLE LACS SPAWNERS STOPPED?
YES NO
• Major conservation issue. DNR can legally challenge tribal harvests for conservation reasons. Note DNR’s emphasis on problems, challenges, uncertainties; and the 2015 super-low 40,000-lb. combined state-tribal quota, a dramatic 95% drop from Mille Lacs normals. Huge conservation issues, eh? SHOULD DNR LEADERS USE THE CONSERVATION ARGUMENT AND PUSH FOR CHANGE?
YES NO
• Health and human safety. DNR could use health and human safety concerns to challenge tribal harvests and “treaty management” which make Mille Lacs Minnesota fishing’s biggest never-ending issue. Bad results: damaged image, constant controversy, false impressions (like “no fish”), angry people, Mille Lacs avoidance, severe economic impacts, uncertain futures, diminished optimism, unhealthy stress levels. SHOULD THE STATE ACT TO SAVE THE MILLE LACS FISHING COMMUNITY—PEOPLE NEAR AND FAR—FROM THE NEVER-ENDING INTOLERABLE HARM?
YES NO
This was voted on by the Mille Lacs In-put group last evening.
Care to guess the results?? ALL YES
