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Perch America is a politically
active conservation club, dedicated to the
protection and development of the Lake Michigan
and neighboring fisheries.
We have been instrumental in the
stocking of walleye in Wolf Lake over the last few
years and would like to continue that program, as
well as other stocking programs. We need your
help.
We try to keep our members
informed, as well as the general public, as to
what is happening with our natural heritage, Lake
Michigan, and our other lakes and streams in the
Calumet area.
Perch America addresses many
problems pertaining to the Great Lakes Fishery
(mainly the southern tip of Lake Michigan)
Including, but not limited to:
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and
Wisconsin waters, shorelines, tributaries, and
streams that feed into Lake Michigan.
Wolf Lake, Powder Horn and
other small inland lakes in our area of Cook
County IL. and Lake County / Porter County IN.
We are also involved with
stocking programs and other environmental issues
that encompass our smaller inland lakes in
southern Cook County and Lake County Indiana.
We are an investigative type of
organization, that has the character and will
power, to stand up to politicians and their
lobbyists, bureaucrats, and regulatory
organizations that sit by and do nothing to
prevent the decline of our sport fishery.
The club has had a great impact
on stopping the devastating depletion of the perch
in Lake Michigan ( Indiana and Illinois ) from the
over-harvesting by commercial fisherman, who over
the years have been abusing that fishery with
little to no regulatory control, and protected by
political lobbyists, with their own agenda, that
had little regard for the sport fisherman, who
consequently pay many more thousands of dollars
for individual fishing licenses, than all of the
commercial fisherman use to pay combined.
This is a brief overview of
our goals and objectives
 | Regulate the commercial
fishing, until the perch population can make a
substantial return, if that is possible. |
| Continue to develop and
implement stocking programs |
| Assess the regulations for
shore fisherman, and the seasons involved and
determine the best course of action |
| Try to get the States of Indiana and
Illinois to work together on the
problems with Lake Michigan with similar goals, rules and
regulations |
| We believe that the decline
of the perch population is directly related to
the introduction of the Zebra Mussel, the Round
Goby, the Ruffe, and other various invaders to
our Great Lakes that have been brought here from
over seas in the ballast waters of cargo ships. Perch America would like to
see more investigative work done by our federal
government to curtail the transfer of more of
these exotic / foreign species, and address the
problem of what do we do now to control the
aggressive "invaders" that are already here
feeding on our Lakes plankton and devouring
perch eggs or any other species that gets in the
way. |
| Implement stocking programs
for Lake Michigan that will help this cause and
start stocking fish for all the fisherman, shore
as well as boaters. |
| The natural predators
for the Round Goby should be considered to
help curtail that problem. |
| Find affordable
solutions to the decontamination of the ballast water that remains in the
ships below the pump levels so that when they
perform a ballast exchange per regulations
before entering the Great Lakes it actually does
something. Lets look into to it !
Chlorination should be considered as well as
ultra violet light decontamination. |
| Organize more fishing outings
for our kids to try and bring back the interest
and excitement that we all enjoyed as children. |
Lake Michigan Conservation Organization 
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