Michigan Charter Boat Association Website
Explore Michigan like never before with the Michigan Charter Boat Association! Our community of 600+ captains, guides, and operators spans more than 3,000 miles of shoreline, offering world-class fishing charters, serene river tours, exciting scuba expeditions, sailing adventures, and breathtaking cruises. We’re proud to be one of Michigan’s premier recreational organizations, driving tourism while maintaining the highest levels of safety, professionalism, and regulatory compliance. Your next great Michigan adventure is waiting—come experience the water with us!
Charter Fishing Flickr Album
Michigan Sea Grant album of charter fishing images
Michigan Catch & Cook
The Catch & Cook website promotes and encourages creative, yet safe, marketing of Michigan Great Lakes sports fish through a partnership with the charter fishing industry and local restaurants. Use it to find charters and restaurants that participate in the Catch & Cook program.
Michigan Fresh Fish Website
Learn how to support your local fishing economy and improve your and your family’s health all at the same time—by eating delish Michigan fish! This website maintains a searchable database of Michigan fish suppliers and producers is a fast and easy way to buy fresh, local fish. Michigan fish producers are located across the state. This includes producers of food fish, bait fish, fish for stocking, ornamental fish, and fee-fishing. The Fresh Fish Finder tool (freshfishfinder.org) can help you find fish businesses across the state so you can buy directly from the source. Find fresh fish and fish products in your area, support local and Great Lakes businesses, and eat great fish.
People of the Sturgeon Story Map
Lake sturgeon, an ancient fish native to the Great Lakes region, can grow to be more than six feet long, 200 pounds, and live more than 100 years. This “dinosaur fish” has teetered on the brink of extinction since the late 19th century. But in Wisconsin, careful management over the last 100 years has allowed one population to thrive. The book, People of the Sturgeon outlines the history of the cultures surrounding lake sturgeon in Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago region, told by a fascinating collection of photos, artifacts, and a few good fish tales. This story map takes much of the original materials in the book and presents them in Story Map form. The website includes photographs, oral histories and maps.
Fishlines Newsletter
“Fish Lines” is an on-line newsletter for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Great Lakes Fisheries Division.
Lake Erie Fishermen – Work, Identity, and Tradition
Lake Erie Fishermen: Work, Identity, and Tradition by Lloyd, Timothy C.; Mullen, Patrick B. This book was published in 1990 by Univ. Ilinois Press, and is available online (open access) through ACLS Humanities E-Book collection. A summary of this book, as provided by ACLS Humanities, is described as follows: Timothy C. Lloyd and Patrick B. Mullen began their fieldwork in March 1983 and ended it in September 1985. They spent a total of twelve weeks on or along the Lake, observing, interviewing and documenting the work of commercial fishermen on fishing boats, at shore seining sites, at local fish wholesale houses and at leisure in restaurants, VFW halls, bars, and at kitchen tables. They interviewed active and retired fishermen, members of their families, wholesale distributors, State of Ohio biologists and wildlife enforcement agents. They were lucky enough be able to document the techniques and customs of gill-net fishing before it was prohibited by state regulation a year ago. They found active verbal, material and customary traditions shared among local fishermen, through which the culture and identity of this group are expressed. Chapters of this book are outlined in table of contents, as follows: Introduction: Commercial Fishing on Lake Erie A. The Current State of the Occupation B. A Brief History of Lake Erie Commercial Fishing 1. Technique and Custom 2. The Past 3. Heroes, Characters, and Notable Men 4. Hazards 5. Identity 6. Conflict Conclusion: Personal Narratives and Occupational Identity
Great Lakes Literacy Principles
Website and brochure explores eight Great Lakes Literacy Principles. Developed through the Sea Grant Center for Great Lakes Literacy, these are considered essential Principles and Fundamental Concepts for Great Lakes Learning (these parallel and match those of Ocean Literacy Principles). Website also includes a variety of supporting resources, lessons and educational materials relating to these principles. View a PDF version of Great Lakes Literacy Principles brochure.
Wisconsin Fish ID
This website is an online and interactive fish identification tool developed by Wisconsin Sea Grant, Wisconsin Dept of Natural Resources, and University of Wisconsin Center for Limnology. This site allows you to search, sort, and identify Great Lakes fish (Wisconsin watersheds) both by name and appearance. A mobile Wisconsin Fish ID Mobile App is also available for download.
NatureChange.org
NatureChange.org is a website promoting online conversations about environmental issues. A great resource for engaging in issue explorations relevant to the Great Lakes region.
