Posts Tagged ‘consent decree’
January NRC Recap
The Natural Resources Commission’s first meeting of 2024 wrapped up just before lunch today, with no commissioner items for information or action. This was the first commission meeting for new commissioner Robin Michigiizhigookwe Clark, who was appointed hours after the December NRC meeting concluded. More on her appointment can be found in MUCC’s December NRC recap HERE. …
Read MoreJanuary NRC Preview
The Natural Resources Commission returns to work on January 11 at 9 a.m. for the year’s first meeting with no action items on the agenda. This is the first commission meeting for new commissioner Robin Michigiizhigookwe Clark, who was appointed hours after the December NRC meeting concluded. More on her appointment can be found in…
Read MoreCoalition to Protect Michigan’s Resources will appeal adoption of Great Lakes Consent Decree
The Coalition to Protect Michigan’s Resources (CPMR), a sport fishing organization focused on protecting the fishery in the Great Lakes, filed an appeal opposing entry of the 2023 Great Lakes Consent Decree in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The order to accept the decree, given in August by Judge Paul Maloney, entered the five…
Read MoreGreat Lakes decree put in place despite stakeholders’ and anglers’ objections
A federal judge accepted a proposed consent decree controlling five sovereign Michigan Tribes, the federal government and the state, overruling evidence that expanded gillnetting would negatively impact the Great Lakes. In handing down his order, Judge Paul Maloney rejected the Coalition to Protect Michigan Resource’s claim that biological harm is likely to happen to the resource and…
Read MoreProposed consent decree places millions of feet of gill net in new waters
A proposed Great Lakes Consent Decree that would place millions more feet of gill net effort in the Great Lakes annually and allow Tribal commercial take of whitefish, lake trout, salmon, walleye and perch sits before a judge. The State of Michigan (including the Department of Natural Resources), United States of America and four of…
Read MoreGreat Lakes Consent Decree negotiations tangled up
Recent court filings by a conservation coalition, tribes and others embroiled in fishery negotiations show how far the three-year process still has to go. An existing Great Lakes Consent Decree signed in 2000 governs fishing regulations in certain waters of lakes Michigan and Huron from Grand Haven north around the tip of the mitt to…
Read MoreAngling coalition says State of Michigan is not representing its members; hearing set for late August
A coalition fighting to protect Michigan’s sport fish and recreational fishing will have its request to intervene in a treaty right case heard in federal court on August 25. The Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources (CPMR) and Bay De Noc Great Lakes Sport Fishermen jointly seek to intervene because they believe the State of Michigan…
Read MoreDNR using non-disclosure agreement to thwart growing opposition in fish negotiations
On Monday, a conservation coalition fighting to protect recreational fishing in Michigan’s Great Lakes filed a rebuttal to state and tribal filings in federal court (click to read). The Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources (CPMR) filed to intervene in the ongoing Consent Decree negotiations between five sovereign Native American Tribes, the State of Michigan and…
Read MoreAngling, conservation organizations file motion to intervene in ongoing consent decree
A coalition of conservation organizations filed a motion to intervene Wednesday in the ongoing consent decree negotiations between the State of Michigan, federal government and five sovereign Native American tribes. Judge Paul Maloney will decide on the motion, filed in a Western Michigan federal court (click to view the filing brief). The Coalition to Protect…
Read MoreConsent Decree status conference leads to extension
The 2020 Consent Decree governing treaty and recreational fishing in the northern Great Lakes of Michigan was again extended June 4 after a status conference was held in federal court in Kalamazoo. The parties gathered at the request of the court to provide an overview of their take on the negotiations thus far and their…
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