Focus groups held in Door County and seven other places contributed data for a commercial fishing report
The report, https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/fsh.11005, includes a graph showing the proportion of the commercial catch by lake for each species. Lake Whitefish is the dominant species for Lake Michigan, but fewer whitefish in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron have been surviving to adulthood.
60% stated that they started the work as part of their family’s business, and 46% of those who fish also process their own fish.
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