:: Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Mission
The mission of the Red Cliff Natural Resources Department is to provide a comprehensive program capable of management, protection, development and enhancement of all tribal natural resources. Programs that are included under this mission are those for the benefit of land, water, wetlands, fish and wildlife, forestry, range, irrigation and other resources.

The goals of the hatchery to support its mission include:

Collect and analyze biological data on Lake Superior fishes.
Administer tribal commercial and home-use fishing licenses while maintaining all associated data, records, and reports.
Collect biological data pertaining to fish and wildlife residing within reservation boundaries to protect, maintain, or enhance native species populations.
Collect and analyze physical, chemical, and biological data necessary to implement management actions.
Provide qualified conservation enforcement for protecting Tribal natural resources.
Provide an educational environment to promote awareness of the importance of tribal natural resources and treaty rights.
Partner and steward relationships with other agencies to meet common goals in natural resource management.
Persistently explore new avenues in research and funding for the Natural Resources program.

Activities

Manage the Red Cliff Tribal Commercial fishery of Lake Superior
Annually work as partners with various Tribes and the States of Wisconsin and Michigan to develop lake trout harvest quotas.
Annually conduct routine assessments of commercially important lake trout and whitefish stocks in Lake Superior.
Conduct invasive species monitoring and control.
Inventory fish species present in reservation streams.
Analyze collected data to monitor trends in the Lake Superior fishery.
Conducted Whitetail Deer Population estimate for the reservation.
Established two large stands of wild rice on the reservation able to sustain harvest of tribal members and providing food and habitat for wildlife.
Successfully, submit proposals for additional funding to increase the programs capacity.
Conduct reservation shoreline monitoring
Provide guidance and expertise to tribal council and committees for issues pertaining to natural resource based treaty rights.

Future Projects

Monitor brook trout movement in a reservation stream
Reservation gray wolf population study
Develop a Lake whitefish population

Red Cliff Fish Hatchery
88385 Pike Rd State Highway 13
Bayfield, WI 54814

Phone: 715-779-3750
Fax: 715-779-3763
E-mail: chad.abel@redcliff-nsn.gov

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