Steve Arend
04-04-2006, 03:36 PM
The fate of commercial fishing in Ohio waters of Lake Erie is at a tipping point in the wake of a yellow perch rackteering scandal in which 10 individuals and five businesses have paid fines totaling $356,000 for their part.
Yellow perch are a superb food dish, prized by both sport and commercial fishermen. They accounted for three of every four dollars in the $4 million in Ohio commercial fish landings in 2005. So their importance and high profile are a lock.
The outcome of the following series of recent developments could change the way the state's commercial lake fishery - with its 18 licenses and 12 license-holders - is managed, or how it ends:
Bad apples could cost Erie its commercial fishing industry (http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060402/COLUMNIST22/604020333/-1/SPORTS09)
Yellow perch are a superb food dish, prized by both sport and commercial fishermen. They accounted for three of every four dollars in the $4 million in Ohio commercial fish landings in 2005. So their importance and high profile are a lock.
The outcome of the following series of recent developments could change the way the state's commercial lake fishery - with its 18 licenses and 12 license-holders - is managed, or how it ends:
Bad apples could cost Erie its commercial fishing industry (http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060402/COLUMNIST22/604020333/-1/SPORTS09)