Excellent fishing in southeast Michigan helps generate big economic impact

Where’s the best fishing in Michigan? If you ask Jim Francis, the Lake Erie Basin Coordinator with the Department of Natural Resources, he’ll tell you point blank it’s in his watershed.
“I may be prejudiced,” said Francis, who recently made a presentation to the Natural Resources Commission’s fisheries subcommittee. “I grew up here and I live here and I work here. But we’ve got good water quality, good habitat, good management, and good fishing.”
And he has plenty of data to back up his assertion.

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