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Message: <blockquote data-quote="snow" data-source="post: 81353" data-attributes="member: 1056">HEY CAPT,thanx for the laugh,sorry lunker we're so far ahead of where you think you are its not worth another argument here,this issue doesn't concern you,your lake isn't being pillaged every spring like ours is,as far as sharas article regarding lake vermillion,the band said they would harvest 300lbs just because they could legally,then to local business and tourism clamped down and strongly suggested they cease to excerise their right to harvest and gather as they are plenty fat from casino$$$,not sure what the trade off was but it didn't happen last year.If you think anyone in our dnr or state office would make a statement saying that gill netting is the route cause of mille lacs down fall,you are mistaken,infact the last round table meeting I attended in Isle Minn(the hub for mille business owners) when we sat down with the great lakes indian foundation and they're att'ys,our dnr chief of the northern counties of Mn flat out said if he would do what we are lobbing for (pull the nets during spawn) he would lose his job even tho the state  has the power to do so in the name of conversation and welfare of our natural resource.- - - Updated - - -One more thing that hasn't made the news,with mille lacs on the walleye decline,business's are folding up over the past 5yrs as reduced daily limits and strick slots imposed on sport anglers is keeping recreation folks home or going elsewhere,the tribe  is snapping up as much lake property as they can(huge casino money here),"why" their goal is to control the entire lake,take back the land that they're for farthers sold to our gov't in the 1800's even before Minn was declared a state.Bud Grant headed up this debachel and pretty much right on target~"quote~During the 1993 session the Minnesota Legislature narrowly defeated the negotiated settlement. Legislators opposed to the settlement argued that the use of gill nets would decimate the walleye population and harm tourism. Treaty proponents argued that the use of gill nets and spears were important components of Indian culture and religion and that their use would be limited."Been so long since this happened I almost forgot it,at a rally@ the state capitol in 1992 we had resort owners from most of the major lakes in northern Mn where gill netting collasps their walleye fisheries (leech,cass,red lake,low) we head stories that never made the news,Bud Grant stood nose to nose with clyde belcourt stating verses from the 1837 treaty,when Bud read a sentence that stated "when 3 or more Indians are seeing together it was considered a war party and could be shot on site" the place went nuts! BTW,16 resorts on upper red lake went tits up during the 10year shut down.</blockquote>

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