October 12, 2020 | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM EDT | Zoom Meeting
9:50am Pre-Meeting Technology Check: and login to test audio connection
10:00 Welcome, Introductions and Announcements (Frank Krist and Randy Claramunt, DNR Lake Huron Basin Coordinator).
10:15 Meeting Process and Feedback from the last LHCFAC Meeting (Brandon Schroeder and Meaghan Gass, Michigan Sea Grant)
10:20 Review of data and observations that indicate directions that might be pursued to increase survival of Atlantic Salmon and Steelhead immediately after stocking, (Randy Terrian, Jim Johnson, and the MDNR Fish Production Staff.)
11:30 Discussion of an updated version of the Great Lakes Citizens Advisory Committees Terms of Reference that incorporates the best of all the individual Committee’s versions. Should this version be adopted by all of the Great Lakes Citizens Advisory Committees? (Randy Claramunt and Frank Krist).
11:55 How extensive was the return this season of adult Coho Salmon to their stocking sites at the Thunder Bay River and Port Sanilac? (MDNR and participants).
12:20pm Cormorant Update. Are meeting participants encountering heavy problems with cormorants? (Randy Claramunt and participants)
12: 45 Agency updates.
Here are two new Natural Resources Commission fishing orders that will become effective on April 1, 2021. One order simplifies fishing tackle that can be used in streams around Saginaw Bay for fishing for other species when the walleye season is closed and the other order clarifies the regulation on snagging fish along with better describing the possession limit of fish.