Fish for All

by Chiarappa, Michael J.; Szylvian, Kristin M.

• ISBN13: 9780870136542
• ISBN10: 0870136542
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr

Summary

The contentious claims of groups seeking to use Lake Michigan's fisheries resources were at the center of modern America's emerging environmental politics in the middle of the twentieth century. Inheriting the environmental abuse, political oversights, and cultural inclinations of an earlier era, Lake Michigan's later twentieth century fisheries stakeholders found themselves relentlessly divided by a series of disputes arising from the promotion of sport fishing over commercial fishing, strident policy-making positions of state government, the ecological changes wrought by nonindigenous species, and the reclamation of treaty-rights fishing by Native Americans.

Going beyond the chronicling of past events, Fish for All contextualizes the shared experiences that shape each group's collective memory and presents their historical narratives as discourse that legitimizes their current claims to the resource. Fish for All highlights the historically charged consciousness of fishing communities and points to the evolving communication that will take place between the

Author Biography

Michael J. Chiarappa is Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies and an Affiliate Faculty Member in the American and Canadian Studies Programs at Western Michigan University Kristin M. Szylvian is Associate Professor of History at Western Michigan University, specializing in Public History, and late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century U.S. History

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction Fisheries History, Oral History, and Public History: Historical Voice and the Representation of Lake Michigan's Contested Fisheries	xi
Tribal Fishing Claims: From Fishing First to Cultural Revitalization	1	(100)
Fishing, Economic Opportunity, and Cultural Identity: The Modern Face of Indian Tradition	11	(24)
Coming Back to the Water: The Political Struggle over Fishing Rights	35	(37)
An Interview with Arthur Duhamel and Babette Duhamel Patton	72	(29)
Commercial Fishing Claims: Modern Dilemmas of Harvesting the Inland Seas	101	(270)
In the Blood: Occupational Endurance and Traditional Ecological Knowledge	126	(54)
Making a Living: The Necessity of Economic Adaptation	180	(82)
Holding the Line: The Politics of Lake Michigan Commercial Fishing	262	(109)
Sport Fishing Claims: A Cultivated Lake and its Recreational Bounty	371	(120)
Beyond All Expectations: The Birth of Lake Michigan's Sport Fishing Community	393	(38)
The Most Political Lake: Sport Fishers Find a Voice	431	(60)
Government Mediation of Fishing Claims: Regulation, Research, and the Public Trust	491	(186)
In the Midst of Fish: Government Conservation and Management Becomes a Way of Life	514	(78)
Taking Charge of Lake Michigan's Fisheries: From Gentlemen's Agreements to Bellwethers of State Identity and Economic Benefit	592	(85)
Conclusion Fishing Claims Converge: Everybody's Lake, Everybody's Fish---A Shared Environmental History and its Contemporary Concerns	677