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Walleye Fish Planted in Lake
On October 10, the Paradise Lake Association planted 1,000 walleye fingerlings measuring 6-10 inches. These fish are part of a planned fish stocking by the association. The fish have a survival rate of 70 percent at this size and some will reach legal size for catching by next season. We're accepting donations for our walleye planting for 2019.
Proposed Budget Cuts Will Eliminate Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
As you may have read or heard, the newly proposed 2018 federal budget will effectively eliminate what was designated in 2010 as the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Additionally, it has just been proposed that of the $300 million already budgeted for investment in the Great Lakes for this year, $50 million be diverted and used instead to help cover the early costs of building a proposed wall along the U.S. Mexico border.
The Great lakes Restoration Initiative is a bi- partisan, federally sponsored program to do exactly what it’s name implies. It’s impact has been documented repeatedly over the past several years and it has been instrumental in more than 3000 projects including the funding of wetland restoration, fighting harmful algae blooms, and blocking Asian Carp from reaching the Great Lakes. As many of you know, the Great Lakes is the world’s largest fresh water resource. The Great Lakes regional economy is such that were it a country, it would be the third largest economy on earth generating billions in annual economic activity and supporting 1.5 million jobs in the tourism, fishing and boating industries alone.
The 2018 budget also proposes the total elimination of the 50 year old NOAA Sea Grant program which has allowed the University of Michigan and Michigan state University to work collaboratively with Michigan communities on harbor, habitat and fishery issues such as the currently ongoing “sea lamprey survey”.
Opposition to these proposed cuts have been voiced by both republican and democratic office holders alike, including governors, state attorneys general and various members of both the house and senate.
If you have an opinion to voice, whether for or against, or any comment to make on these proposed budget cuts, we urge you to contact your congressional representatives. To assist you, we have provided the following contact information for our Michigan senators as well as our 1st District US representative. (All three of these are on record opposing the proposed budget cuts.) Contact information can be found online for all other State congressional representatives.
Each of the above can also be contacted through their respective online email form.
The Great lakes Restoration Initiative is a bi- partisan, federally sponsored program to do exactly what it’s name implies. It’s impact has been documented repeatedly over the past several years and it has been instrumental in more than 3000 projects including the funding of wetland restoration, fighting harmful algae blooms, and blocking Asian Carp from reaching the Great Lakes. As many of you know, the Great Lakes is the world’s largest fresh water resource. The Great Lakes regional economy is such that were it a country, it would be the third largest economy on earth generating billions in annual economic activity and supporting 1.5 million jobs in the tourism, fishing and boating industries alone.
The 2018 budget also proposes the total elimination of the 50 year old NOAA Sea Grant program which has allowed the University of Michigan and Michigan state University to work collaboratively with Michigan communities on harbor, habitat and fishery issues such as the currently ongoing “sea lamprey survey”.
Opposition to these proposed cuts have been voiced by both republican and democratic office holders alike, including governors, state attorneys general and various members of both the house and senate.
If you have an opinion to voice, whether for or against, or any comment to make on these proposed budget cuts, we urge you to contact your congressional representatives. To assist you, we have provided the following contact information for our Michigan senators as well as our 1st District US representative. (All three of these are on record opposing the proposed budget cuts.) Contact information can be found online for all other State congressional representatives.
- Senator Debbie Stabenow 202 224 4822
- Senator Garry Peters 202 224 6221
- Representative Jack Bergman 202 225 4735
Each of the above can also be contacted through their respective online email form.
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