Fishing doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Behind every good season on the water, there’s a fight going on in Lansing, in the courts, and in the rivers themselves — and this year, several of those fights are landing at once.
We’ve put together a new page tracking the five biggest issues our fishery is facing right now: a proposed sale of 13 Michigan dams to an out-of-state private equity firm, a stalled bill that funds the DNR’s Fisheries Division, an invasive carp barrier that keeps stopping and starting, salmon stocking cuts on the horizon, and renewed fights over who gets a say in how the resource is divided up.
None of these get decided without pressure from anglers. As President Alan Douville put it in the latest Great Lakes Sport Fishing News, “we are facing a convergence of risks” — and staying informed is step one.
Read the full MSSFA Issues Awareness page →
We’ll keep this page updated as these stories develop, so check back periodically — and if any of these hit close to home, consider reaching out to your state representative or showing up at a chapter meeting to get involved.
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