Basin Team Layout 1 (this layout is like the Fishing Home Page)
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Lake Michigan Basin Team o Lake Michigan Basin Team Overview
 In text describe the following:
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Mission
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What do we do?
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How are we set up?
o Should tell story of how we are organized around watershed management. How is team set up?
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Brief overview of our relationship with Lake
Michigan Committee to show that we conduct holistic management of the lake.
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Lake Michigan Basin Map with Units
 Contact info for Basin Team Members?
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Lake Michigan Basin Team Management Units o In text, give brief overview of what management units do
(habitat protection, fisheries management (prescribe regulations, stocking, habitat rehabilitation, lake and stream surveys, population manipulation, etc.), educate public, etc.) o Northern Lake Michigan Management Unit
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Overview of Unit (tell a little about the history and where offices are located and other interesting tidbits about the unit – number of lakes and streams, urban fisheries, etc.)
What are the current staffing levels and where are they located. Brief description of facilities (weirs, ladders, ponds, etc.)
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Contact Information
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Unit Boundary Map
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Unit Management Plans
 Links to River Assessments (this could also go below under On-Line Services) o Central Lake Michigan Management Unit
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See NLMMU above o Southern Lake Michigan Management Unit
 See NLMMU above

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Projects o Inland Cisco Populations Assessment o Egg Takes
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Steelhead and Salmon at Weirs (could be link)
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Muskegon River Walleye Egg Take
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Thornapple Lake Muskellunge Egg Take o General Survey Techniques
 Netting
 Boomshocking
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Limnology o Link to Status of the Fishery Reports o Lake Michigan Assessment and Research (Link to Charlevoix
Research Station) o Lake Michigan and Inland Creel
 Link to Lake Michigan Creel Reports
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Inland Creel Reports o Habitat Projects
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Dowagiac River Meander Restoration
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Dam Removals o Lake Michigan Stocking (have a annual stocking report for the lake)
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On-Line Services (Links to services) – Maybe the on line services
would all be related to projects? o Fish Stocking Database
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Of Special Interest o Fish Ladders and Weirs (links) o Better Fishing Waters o Handicap Fishing Access o Pier Fishing
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Related Resources o Great Lakes Fish Commission
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Lake Michigan Fish Community Objectives o Great Lakes Fishery Trust o Indiana DNR o Illinois DNR o Wisconsin DNR