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Find a great trail experience near you - whether you want to hike, bike, snowmobile or ride an ORV. From long, paved linear trails to rugged forest terrain, Michigan offers trail opportunities for all abilities and interests.
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We administer grants that enable our local partners to promote the lifestyles we all enjoy by providing recreational opportunities, enhancing wildlife habitat and ensuring public safety. Visit the grants home page by clicking on the button above, or view a specific area of interest below:
Recreational Safety and Hunter Education
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The state-licensed commercial fishery looks very different than it did 50 years ago. There was a time when Great Lakes commercial fishing was a huge industry with thousands of licenses employing tens of thousands of people. The modern commercial fishery has been consolidated and streamlined. Currently there are around 50 state issued commercial fishing licenses in Michigan spread out over all four of the Great Lakes and only a portion of them harvest fish each year. The others simply maintain their licenses out of a sense that the license alone may have value due to the limited-entry system.
If you are out fishing or boating on the Great Lakes, you may encounter commercial trap nets, gill nets and hook lines in most Michigan waters. All state-licensed or Native American commercial equipment are required to be marked with floats or staff/flag combinations. You should stay at least 250 feet away from buoys, since anchor lines may extend several hundred feet in any direction from the floats or flags and along the length of the gear.
Tampering with commercial fishing gear is illegal. Removal or destruction of marker buoys and flags or other disturbance of gear often results in the waste of a valuable resource, since the nets continue to catch fish. They also can create safety problems for others on the water.
Maps include: lake trout refuges, tribal commercial fishing zones, trap net locations and recent state-licensed commercial fishing areas.
These reports show harvest and monetary value for each species of fish harvested by the State-Licensed (non-tribal) fisheries in Michigan over the last five seasons.
The Tribal Coordination Unit leads the coordination of activities between the State of Michigan and tribal entities with regards to fishery resources and the Treaties of 1836 and 1842.
