- Date
- 2002-07
- Kind
- Observation
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- fishingmaritimeenvironmenteconomycommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Liam Racine’s August 2002 profile follows commercial fishermen Skip DuHamel and Mike Podgorski aboard the Myron K and places their work in Beaver Island’s long whitefish-fishing history. It reports declining yields and multiple ecological, regulatory, and fishing-pressure factors.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper feature and fisherman’s account, not a catch series, stock assessment, or complete treaty record.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, August 2002, “The Water is Wide — Beaver Islanders still making a living off Lake Michigan,” by Liam Racine.Profiles Skip DuHamel and Mike Podgorski fishing from the Myron K, explains trap-net fishing and the renewed treaty framework, and identifies zebra mussels, salmon, habitat loss, warm winters, cormorants, and fishing pressure among factors associated with lower whitefish yields. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2002-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the fishing profile.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2002-08_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island commercial fishing continues amid declining whitefish yields in 2002”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-commercial-whitefish-fishing-myron-k-2002/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 2002, “The Water is Wide — Beaver Islanders still making a living off Lake Michigan,” by Liam Racine. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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