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The Wisconsin Walleye War became the name for late 20th-century events in Wisconsin in protest of Ojibwe (Chippewa) hunting and fishing rights. In a 1975 case, the tribes challenged state efforts to regulate their hunting and fishing off the reservations, based on their rights in the treaties of St. Peters (1837) and La Pointe (1842).
Traditional Indigenous ice spearfishing, which inspired sturgeon spearing season on Lake Winnebago, is still practiced in northern Wisconsin. ‘One day, it will be a lost art.’
A creel full of 61 new fishing regulations will greet anglers for the 2024-25 Wisconsin license year.. Chief among them is a daily bag limit of three walleye on inland waters. Wisconsin ...
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Spearfishing is intensively managed throughout the world. The use of SCUBA equipment for spearfishing is now illegal in many parts of the world, although it remains legal and popular within many parts of the United States. Within the EU, the use of SCUBA for spearfishing is now illegal, in addition to a ban on spearfishing at night. [26]
The first year of regulated sturgeon spearing was 1903, when an eight-pound limit was introduced. [12] All sturgeon spearing was banned from 1915 to 1931. The lake had the largest population of sturgeon in the United States in 2003. [12] The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources regulates the number of fish taken each year.
In this week's First Nations Wisconsin newsletter, we look at how spearfishing is at the heart of the issue of Indigenous sovereignty in Wisconsin.
Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians, 526 U.S. 172 (1999), was a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the usufructuary rights of the Ojibwe (Chippewa) tribe to certain lands it had ceded to the federal government in 1837.