- Date
- 1984-08-15
- Kind
- Closure
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- commerceconservationgovernmentwildlifecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
An interim Great Lakes fishing agreement closed commercial fishing in the Beaver Island area on August 15, 1984, as a measure intended to protect lake trout and whitefish while a permanent dispute resolution was pending.
Evidence limits
The article does not identify the legal instrument or specify every affected area, date, or gear type. Those details remain an unresolved source question.
Sources
- Reports an interim agreement closing certain Lake Michigan areas to specified fishing dates and gear to protect lake trout and whitefish; in the Beaver Island area, commercial fishing was closed August 15. It is a newspaper report and does not provide the underlying order, map, gear schedule, or enforcement record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1984-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held fifteen-page September issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the fishing-closure report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1984-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Commercial fishing closes in the Beaver Island area, 1984”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-commercial-fishing-closure-1984/, accessed [date], citing "Commercial Fishing Closed in the Beaver Island Area," Beaver Beacon, September 1984. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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