The Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission is commonly known by its acronym, GLIFWC. Formed in 1984, GLIFWC serves eleven Ojibwe tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan who reserved hunting, fishing, and gathering rights in the 1836, 1837, 1842, and 1854 Treaties with the United States government.
GLIFWC provides natural resource management expertise, conservation enforcement, legal and policy analysis, and public information services in support of the exercise of treaty rights during well-regulated, off-reservation seasons throughout the treaty-ceded territories.
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GLIFWC began issuing consumption advice in 1996 for walleye, the species most frequently harvested and consumed by tribal members. The advice is based on mercury health risks and uniquely incorporates consideration of impacts on the traditions and culture of GLIFWC’s member tribes.
In addition to general harvest regulations, the following provisions apply to manoomin harvesting in the 1837 and 1842 Ceded Territories in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Starting Salary Range: $36,070-$50,770 (Dependent on qualifications and experience).
New research from the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign identified six “hotspots” for walleye spawning and found that about 96% of walleye sampled displayed some degree of loyalty to spawning s