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The 2024-25 Wisconsin fishing regulations include a host of changes, ... The rule was designed to provide certainty for sport anglers in the area where tribal spearing takes place and, depending ...
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. Tribal spearfishing is a symbol of Indigenous ...
The Turtle-Flambeau Flowage is a 12,942 acres (52.37 km 2) lake in Iron County, Wisconsin. [1] It has a maximum depth of 15 meters and is the seventh largest lake in the state of Wisconsin by surface area.
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 annual ice spearing camp on the Mole Lake Reservation in northern Wisconsin was started by elders as a way to revitalize their Ojibwe heritage. Tribal members in Wisconsin spear fish through ...
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).
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.
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.’